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What You Need to Know About Moving to a New State

Moving to a new home can be one of the most stressful experiences a person faces. That stress multiplies when moving from one state to another.

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How to Choose Between Multiple Offers When Selling Your Home

Congratulations! You’ve listed your home for sale, and you’ve secured not only one, but several offers from interested buyers. You’ve all but ensured that you will be making a large profit from the sale of your home.

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Home Staging Guide: Costs, Tips & more!

Home Staging Guide: Costs, Tips & more! Selling your home to get the best possible profit involves more than listing it for sale and posting

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5 Tips For Streamlining Your Home Sale

You’ve heard it’s a seller’s market and are ready to sell your home. You’ve done a little sprucing up, and you’re ready to put your house on the market, right? Not so fast.

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How to Win a Bidding War

Low supply and high demand create the perfect conditions for a seller’s market, and buyers looking to buy their first home or their next perfect home may find themselves in a bidding war competing against other buyers with the same idea.

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Moving? Find out how location impacts the cost of your insurance

Moving is a big change with lots of things to consider. Before you even get to the task of scheduling movers and packing all your things, you’ll need to decide where it is you’re moving to. Whether it’s finding the perfect family-friendly neighborhood or moving to a new city for work, location is likely the most important choice you’ll make.

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Six reasons to get your future home inspected

People often budget their property shopping down to the nickel, and so a home inspection can look like a lot of nickels. It makes many prospective owners skittish about getting their prospective property inspected.

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Moving your business: What you need to know

Moving your business: What you need to know Regardless of the size of your business or the industry you’re in, moving your business is no

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Six times you should review your home insurance policy

If your home insurance policy is like mine, it sits in the filing cabinet waiting patiently for the day the executor of my estate says, “yeah, you can probably shred that.” But should your home insurance policy be something you set and forget?

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3 Best Hacks When Booking a Moving Clean

If you’re moving, you might be trying to find ways to save time. A moving concierge can help you in many different ways, but some tasks remain time and energy consuming, such as cleaning your home.

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What Do Millennial Buyers Want in a Home?

The expiration of COVID-19 restrictions coincides with a resumption of the millennials’ appetite for homeownership.
In 2019, millennials represented more than one-third of homebuyers and more than one-half of mortgage loans in 2020.

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7 House Hunting Mistakes to Avoid

House hunting is an exciting process. You’re in search of your dream house and looking forward to making it a home for you and your family. But before you get started, be sure to do some preparation and avoid these seven house hunting mistakes to make sure the process goes as smoothly and stress-free as possible.

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Tips for Buying a Fixer-Upper

A fixer-upper can be a great way for first-time homebuyers to get into a home they wouldn’t be able to afford otherwise. It may also be a great opportunity to customize the home exactly how you want it.

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How to Shop for a Mortgage in 2022

As COVID-19 slowly comes to an end, many renters are considering purchasing their first homes. Existing homeowners, habituated to remote work, are looking for more space in a new home or adding to their current houses.

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What Is the Best Season to Move in Canada?

Moving is a big step, and one you shouldn’t take lightly. Not only does it usually entail uprooting your whole life and adapting to completely new surroundings, but it can be a logistical nightmare; especially if you’ve never done it before.

What Should You Look for in a Neighborhood?

In your search for the perfect home, the neighborhood in which it exists may be one of the most important aspects of your decision.

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Hidden Fees to Consider When Selling Your Home

The first concern of most people selling a home is deciding the right time to buy or sell. Naturally, every home seller wants to get the highest price possible for their property, allowing them to convert their equity into cash after paying off the remaining mortgage.

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Insure your storage unit the easy way with these 5 tips

Maybe you’re in the process of moving, or maybe you just have too much stuff. Many people (particularly those living in apartments or condos with limited extra space) stash their extra things in a self-storage unit when they run out of space at home.

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How to Buy a Home With a Low Down Payment

If you’re worried that you’ll miss out on homeownership because of down payment requirements, you’re far from alone. A 2019 survey of homebuyers by mortgage insurer Genworth Canada found that nearly 60% of respondents were afraid that they would not be able to purchase the home they wanted because of this obstacle.

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Bad Credit Loans: How can I move with no money and bad credit?

When you moved out of your parents’ house, you probably weren’t planning on cohabitating with them again anytime soon (or ever). Unfortunately, the reality is that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to large numbers of Canadians moving back in with their parents due to economic hardship.

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5 things you might not know about tenant insurance

Whether you’re renting an entire house, living in a basement apartment or leasing a condo in the city, you need the protection that tenant insurance offers

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Should You Buy a Home in a Good School District If You Don’t Have Kids?

Which home makes the better investment — the one in a great school district or the one with nicer amenities? How do private school costs affect your choice?

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How to Negotiate in a Seller’s Market

When the pandemic first rocked the economy in March, a lot of prospective home buyers anticipated falling prices and an emerging buyer’s market. But the opposite has happened.

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Should I Take Out A Personal Loan to Move?

Moving is something that often requires a lot of time and energy, but with careful planning, it doesn’t need to be a hassle. Despite the many elements involved in a move, there are plenty of ways to make your housing transition happen as seamlessly as possible.

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How to load your moving truck or trailer?

If you’re moving, one of steps will be packing your belongings into the vehicle you’ve rented. Loading your vehicle right takes proper planning. This article covers some key things to keep in mind when loading your trailer or truck to make sure your move goes off without a hitch.

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How to insure yourself against damage during a move

Moving is complicated at the best of times. Add to that the risk of things breaking during the move, and it can be a lot to deal with! But if you follow some good advice, make sure you have home insurance, and know your rights, you can reduce the risk of damage and limit your repair costs.

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Discover a Better Way to Move and Store Your Stuff

When you think about “moving” and “storage”, what images and associations instantly come to mind? Perhaps flashbacks to a previous move that was just way too much effort? Maybe a dingy, damp self-storage unit? A U-Haul jampacked with your disorganized possessions?

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Moving Forward | Moving Companies Adapting During COVID-19

We’re living in unfamiliar times right now, and it seems like every other day our governments, businesses, and individuals in the community are reaching out with updates and news.

Address Change Guides

5 Questions your insurance carrier will ask you during your move

Are you about to notify your insurance company that you are moving and therefore going to change your address? Here are 5 questions they will ask you when you’ll call. Who says moving says new insurance policy. Indeed, the latter will be modified (upwards or downwards), even if you live in the same neighborhood.

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Moving Quotes: All You Need to Know to Get the Best Value

An essential part of hiring a moving company is getting a moving quote that is right for you. The success of the move and the amount you pay depends on the moving quote given to you.

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Should You Sublet Your Student Rental? Pros and Cons

Should You Sublet Your Student Rental? Pros and Cons From our collaborators at Zoocasa. Being a student comes with a lot of choices. Should you

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The Pros and Cons of Moving in the Early Spring

The Pros and Cons of Moving in the Early Spring From our collaborators at Zoocasa. The snow has melted, the birds are chirping and you

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How Much Should I Tip Movers – and When?

Treating your movers with extra money at the end of hectic moving activity shouldn’t cost you a lot. For a reasonable travel distance, you can pay each worker with more or less…

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5 Tips for Planning a Long-Distance Move

5 Tips for Planning a Long-Distance Move From our collaborators at Zoocasa. There are many reasons for moving long distances, though relocating for work is

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How to Reduce the Stress of First Time Home Buying

As a first-time home buyer, buying a house is a brash introduction into the world of real estate; especially if you never cared for it before.
This article aims to help you navigate through this very unique period of your life.

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10 Tips to Make Your Winter Moving Process Successful

During winter, the level of difficulty in shifting from one place to other doubles as compared to exercising the same process in summer or spring. This article helps you get ready for the challenge!

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Consider This Before Moving Your Things into Storage

What to Consider Before Moving Your Things into a Storage Unit From our collaborators at Zoocasa. Need a place to stash your belongings, or are

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Downsizing: A Guide to Moving into a Smaller Home

Downsizing: A Guide to Moving into a Smaller Home From our collaborators at Zoocasa. There are a number of reasons why you may be considering

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Why making an estate plan should be on your moving to-do list

Many of your most cherished memories will take place at your home and your home’s sentimental value will grow exponentially. Making a will allow you to choose a beneficiary/beneficiaries to receive the financial and sentimental value of your home

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5 Best Neighbourhoods to Move to Around Toronto

Toronto is surrounded by every type of neighbourhood imaginable: car-friendly suburbs for families, historic, established cities with brick-clad housing stock, bustling towns with plentiful job opportunities and more. The variety is endless.

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7 Unique Ways to Sell Your Furniture When Moving

The problem becomes even more acute when you’re moving cities, or from a large house in the suburbs to a small apartment in the city.

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Looking to Move Near Transit? These Are the GTA’s Most Affordable Homes

The Greater Toronto Area takes up a significant portion of the Golden Horseshoe and is the most populous metropolitan area in Canada. If you’re thinking about moving to the GTA, you’ll have the option of living in Toronto and its 25 surrounding municipalities.

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Moving to Toronto: Where Should You Live?

If you’re looking for plenty of transportation options, vibrant culture life and the best career opportunities, Toronto is for you. However, Toronto’s vast options can make moving to a new neighbourhood tricky. Here is a complete guide to finding your ideal Toronto neighbourhood.

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