We’ve lowered our listing price by $10,000 to try to entice an offer from a potential buyer. We’ve been listed about a month with a couple of open houses, some private viewings and no offers yet. This is how the market is these days; many listings are staying on the market longer and longer.
Our updated [...]
Part of the BC government’s budget for 2008 is a $100 Climate Action Dividend to every person living in British Columbia. Anna received $200 which includes Claire’s dividend. This comes just in time for July 1 when the BC government will raise gas prices by around 2.5 cents per litre as part of their Carbon [...]
Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. And believe me, luck plays a factor in Texas Holdem. Because, if it weren’t for luck, I’d win every time!
In this hand, blinds are 125/250 with 25 ante. I’m in middle position with 27 offsuit (considered the worst starting hand in Holdem) and decide to raise to [...]
This past Tuesday, the Bank of Canada decided to keep their overnight rate unchanged at 3% despite analyst expectations of a 25-basis-point cut to help stimulate our economy. It seems the BoC now has its sights set on fighting inflation. How does this affect mortgage rates?
Here’s my latest victory. It’s just a small Sit-N-Go tournament with $3.00 buy-in and $0.25 entry fee. There were only 45 players and the top 7 get paid with first place getting $42.00. This was a turbo tournament with blinds increasing every 5 minutes. I like turbos; everyone plays really loose and tourneys don’t take [...]
Since our Open House, several groups have come to check out our place during the day while we were out. Some came for the open house and want to take a second look. Others missed the Open House completely.
There were 4 groups that came by yesterday, and one today, and another tomorrow. We’ve had to [...]
Today was the big day. We finished our last-minute cleanups before our real estate agent arrived. She had scheduled our open house to be from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. So we took the opportunity to do some Open House hopping ourselves.
Anna plugged in some addresses into our Garmin Nuvi 350 GPS and we were [...]
