Last week, I blogged about whether you have to disclose a crime that once occurred in your home. Today’s question: do you have to disclose the neighbours? Generally speaking, as long as you aren’t asked, you don’t have to disclose anything about the neighbourhood. You can’t lie and say that the neighbours have no dogs,… Continue reading Good fences make good neighbours
Debt Service Ratios — What are They?
When applying for a mortgage, one of the things lenders look for is whether or not the person/people applying for a mortgage can afford the mortgage payments. Makes sense, right? Obviously if they’re going to lend someone money to purchase a house, they want to be sure they can afford the payments each month. There… Continue reading Debt Service Ratios — What are They?
Do you have to disclose what happened in your house?
In 1996, in a home in Bowmanville, Ron England stabbed his mother and stepdaughter to death while suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. In the fall of 2011, Eric and Sade-Lea Tekoniemi purchased the property. Once they discovered the events that had occurred years earlier, Sade-Lea developed heart palpitations and anxiety attacks, and the couple has now… Continue reading Do you have to disclose what happened in your house?
Mortgage Monday Rate Update – January 2013
Welcome back to BarrieRealEstateTalk! Cesia and I are looking forward to bringing you more great posts on real estate in the Barrie area. If you’re a real estate professional in the Barrie area and you’re interested in doing some guests posts on BarrieRealEstateTalk.ca, send me an email – we’d love to have more contributors! For… Continue reading Mortgage Monday Rate Update – January 2013
Happy New Year!
Cesia and I want to wish those that follow along with the BarrieRealEstateTalk Blog a Happy New Year! We’ll be picking up right where we left off starting next week. If you have any specific topics you’d like us to cover, let us know in the comments below! We’re looking forward to another year of… Continue reading Happy New Year!