The Ultimate Checklist for Preparing Your Home for Sale
Properly prepare your home for sale with these helpful staging tips and tricks from Gillette and Associates Nanaimo!
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Your Nanaimo Selling Roadmap: From Listing to SOLD
Our step-by-step guide walks you through the entire Nanaimo home-selling process, from strategic pricing to a successful closing.
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Seller’s or Balanced? What Nanaimo’s Key Real Estate Metrics Mean for Your Home
Discover how to interpret key indicators like the Sales-to-New-Listings Ratio to make smarter pricing and selling decisions in Nanaimo.
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Kitchen Mistakes when Selling
Avoid kitchen mistakes when selling on Vancouver Island. Enhance lifestyle & property appeal for a successful sale
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Real Estate Terminology Explained
Buyer’s Agent vs. Listing Agent: Typically, when it comes to the sale of a home, there are two agents involved – a buyer’s agent and a listing agent. The listing agent represents the seller, while…
Read the storyB.C. Strata Insurance Rates Increasing
Rising strata insurance rates across B.C. are leaving condo owners responsible for enormous bills. The cost of strata’s building insurance is passed to homeowners in their maintenance fees and, if…
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10 Worthwhile Home Renovations
1. REJUVENATE YOUR BATHROOM Rejuvenating your bathrooms and ensuring a high degree of functionality will give you a huge return on your investment. You don’t have to necessarily gut it and start…
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Understanding Exceptions and Reservations on Title
Have you ever been reading through your Nanaimo title search for a property you’re interested in purchasing and wondered what the section entitled Exceptions and Reservations – Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company means? Well we actually see this on title for most of the homes in Nanaimo so here’s an explanation for you.
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Joy of Downsizing
Seniors, empty-nesters or anyone moving from a residential home to an apartment or condominium face the challenge of a new living space with limited room for furniture, clothes and treasured items.…
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REAL 3D VIRTUAL HOME TOURS
Explore our homes from anywhere in the world with our Real3D virtual tours. Experience our homes without ever setting foot inside our properties.
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Tips to Help Sell Your Home During the Summer Months
Landscaping:Mow your lawn often as grass and undesired weeds grows faster in the summer months. Make sure your flowers and plants aren’t languishing in the summer heat. To add some summer appeal:…
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You’ve Worked Hard and Now it’s Time to Retire!
There are many factors to consider when looking for your retirement home. This Blog post takes into account; financing, your living space, lifestyle, entertaining, outdoor living space and travel when choosing your next home.
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Tips for Selling Your Home During the Holidays
Clean and Stage: Before you even begin to decorate, your home should be staged. The fact is if your living room is already piled high with knickknacks and clutter, your Nutcracker collection is only…
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What You Need To Know : New Capital Gains Tax Rules
Canadians now have to report the sale of their principal residence on their tax return to the Canada Revenue Agency. The sale is still exempt from the 50% capital gains tax provided it meets all of…
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How to Prepare Your Home for Photo Day
General Staging Tips Interior Thoroughly clean your whole house (vacuum carpets, mop hardwood floors and tile, clean countertops, clean windows) Turn all overhead lights and lamps ON, and be sure to…
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Real Estate “Titles” Explained
Problems with Title in Real Estate Even though you may have bought a house, and paid off the mortgage, you may not necessarily have clear title to your property. Some of the “clouds” or “exceptions”…
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What is Home Staging?
Home staging, simply put, is the process of visually preparing your home for sale. In the real estate industry we do this help make your home appeal to the widest possible audience of potential…
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Mortgage Helpers and Secondary Suites Explained
Simply put, a mortgage helper is a separate suite in your home that you can rent out for extra income in order to subsidize your mortgage. These self-contained suites can also be a great way to…
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Helpful Moving Checklist
As Soon As Possible: Start early. Investigate and research moving companies and/or truck rental companies. Hire a moving company or if you’re doing it yourself, reserve a moving truck. Be sure to get…
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Top FOUR Reasons You Should Hire a REALTOR®:
The REALTORS® responsibility is to guide the buyer through each step. These critical steps will help to ensure the buyer that they have covered all of their concerns, are knowledgeable of the home’s…
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4 Tips for Surviving Multiple Offers
The truth is, this kind of market activity can have mixed results for buyers. It can leave them with limited choices in a market that is moving quickly, or it can offer up some excellent products…
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Tips for a Worry-Free Moving Day!
The first thing you should do when you’ve made the decision to move is to sit down and create a list of everything that has to be done. Stick this list somewhere visible to keep you reminded about to…
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Springtime Curb Appeal
Here are 3 easy steps that are guaranteed to enhance your home’s appearance this Spring. So get down, and a bit dirty, because the results will be worth it! 1. DITCH THE DIRT In this climate, moss is…
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