24 guides to help you navigate the different stages of selling your home.
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Still deciding
Whether to sell at all, what it will cost you, and what actually moves the number at the end.
What Sells a House
Price, presentation, and exposure, in that order. Everything else is a rounding error.
The Importance of the Right List Price
Price and time are inversely related. What you ask on day one decides which of the two you spend.
Commission and Listing Budget
The 2.5% I actually control, what it pays for, and why the other half is not mine to direct.
Visit Homes Before You List
An afternoon walking through your competition will tell you things no valuation can.
Getting the house ready
The work worth doing before anyone sees it, and the work that will not come back.
Fixes and Repairs Prior to Listing
What's worth doing, what isn't, and how to work with contractors on a listing timeline.
The Pre-List Renovation Playbook
What $5,000 to $10,000 should buy before you list, and the expensive work that will not come back.
Staging and Interior Design
Staging isn't decorating. It's editing a home down until a stranger can imagine their own life in it.
Home Inspections
Why I commission one before your house is listed, and what it does to the negotiation.
Going to market
Setting the price, making the material, and the paperwork that has to be signed before it goes live.
Determining the List Price
Three strategies, the market conditions each one suits, and how the wrong choice costs you more than the right one earns.
Photography, Not Pictures
Almost every buyer sees your house on a phone before they see it in person. That's the showing that decides everything.
Marketing Your Property
The whole campaign, in the order it happens: what gets made, where it goes, and what each piece is for.
Agreements and Legal
The listing agreement, the RIG, the SPIS, and what you're obliged to disclose about your own house.
FINTRAC and Your Sale
The identity check that happens at listing time, why it also reaches your buyer, and what it means for the deposit.
While you are on the market
Living in a house that is being shown, reading what the first three weeks are telling you, and what to do if it stalls.
Living in Your Home While It's on the Market
How to keep a house showing-ready without losing your mind, with children, pets, and a job.
When the House Isn't Selling
How to work out what is actually wrong before you decide what to do about it, and the ways sellers make it worse.
Adjusting the List Price
When to move, how far, and why a reduction that arrives late and small is the worst of both worlds.
Dropping the Price or Relisting
Two ways to correct a listing, with different effects on buyer psychology and different traces left in the record.
Offers and closing
How offer night runs, which conditions matter, and what happens in the weeks between acceptance and closing.
Offer Night, from the Seller's Side
How to run one properly, and the market conditions in which you should not run one at all.
Common Clauses
Reading an offer as a seller: which conditions are routine, which are risk, and what to counter.
How Deposits Work
Where the money goes, who holds it, what it secures, and what happens to it when a deal falls apart.
What Happens After the Offer Is Accepted
Six quiet weeks in which nothing appears to happen. Here is what is actually going on, week by week.
If this is you
Three situations that change the whole shape of a sale. Worth reading early if either applies, because both affect decisions you make before listing.
Selling and Buying at the Same Time
Which order to do it in, what bridge financing actually is, and the specific risk each sequence carries.
Selling a Tenanted Property
Your obligations while a tenant is in place, how showings work, and what you can and cannot promise a buyer.
Capital Gains and the Principal Residence Exemption
Sellers assume the exemption is automatic. It is not, and the reporting requirement catches people every year.
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