Here’s some helpful information when buying or selling a home. When it comes to chattels the Seller has an obligation, clearly stated in the standard Real Estate Purchase Contract, to deliver the chattels listed near the top of the first page of the Contract in...
I’m posed this questions by clients often. The technical answer is: unless your lender demands that you have title insurance it is not required that you have it. The practical answer is somewhat different. Any time that you can minimize the risk of your having...
Don’t Forget This Details After Purchasing a Home One issue that arises frequently when you are purchasing and mortgaging a new home is a failure for your mortgage company to provide mortgage instructions to your lawyer. The lawyer wants to have mortgage...
You’ve sold your home. You’re moving. What can you take with you? Normally, you can take everything not attached to the home, excluding the items listed in the contract as “attached goods”. You can include and exclude any number of items so long as you’ve placed...
There is no substitute for actually spending the time to review your contemplated house purchase prior to entering into a Purchase Agreement. Many purchasers will not look beyond the well maintained lawn, the flowers and the paint colour to consider the other...
Generally, a purchaser will be unable negotiate a hold back for a portion of the purchase price on the closing date. For example, suppose that you, as purchaser, are taking possession of your new house today and you find that the dishwasher does not work, the front...