Financial Tune Up, First Time Home Buyer, Philosophy on Financial Wellness, Planning Your Move
Lawyers Amiright? (insert tired lawyer joke here) After the recent experience of one of my clients purchasing their first home, I was inspired to write this note on finding good lawyers to handle the legal end of financing. Without getting into too many details, this particular lawyer originally quoted these folks a price $1200 to complete their purchase – pretty standard. By the time the lawyer asked for the bank draft, which is meant to cover the down payment and closing costs, my clients discovered that the legal fees had ballooned to over $2500. Shocked, they asked me to review the statement of adjustments and trust ledger their lawyer had provided and yeah, it was shocking. This... Read more »
Financial Tune Up, Planning Your Move
A Word to Vendors, Well, the government’s objectives at dropping the housing market worked. It was a rough start to this year but with the spring market, more listings arrived along with high expectations from vendors on pricing. Most of the product available came...
Improving Your Home, Planning Your Move
Put the ROI back into Ren-Ovat-Ions. Some PMG clients bought a house not too long ago and have been slowly fixing it up with the intention of selling it and moving into a bigger place. Their house has around 800 square feet of living space and a very dated kitchen. ...
First Time Home Buyer, Planning Your Move
The real estate business has really ‘run the gamut’ this year. I love that phrase – the origin is traced back to a musical concept developed by a cool medieval monk named Guido who essentially invented the first syllable-note system (think Do, Re, Mi)....
First Time Home Buyer, Planning Your Move
We have seen a rash of purchase plus improvements… In the last few months we have seen a number of young people trying to get into the housing market by buying lower priced houses that are in need of a bit of TLC. I did this when I bought my first house way back...
