![One for the Canadians: Welcome Home [Book]](http://www.meetmyuglybaby.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/welcome-home-sarah-daniels-book-review-thumb.jpg)
Know any random home-buying rules and regulations? Of course not. They’re someone else’s concern. So goes the likable tone & approach of the author, Sarah Daniels, a local BC real estate agent. She “recommends needing only this (quite thin) book and your common sense to either buy or sell” (page 3). Is the book – Welcome [...]
Sweeties? I doubt today’s kids would budge for less than a brand new HTC. Na. To properly kick off Christmas – how’s about some spending cash? Ethan & Fred from One Project Closer have a wee Christmas present for your ugly babies: a $25 gift card to Home Depot or Lowe’s – your choice. Hurray! [...]
I’ve never given numbers before – because what’s the point? Maybe I had to buy 3 new paint brushes and you didn’t. Maybe my stupid Canadian Home Depot charges more than your American one. Maybe you already have brass nipples. Renovation choices are completely subjective – splurging for this or that where it suits our [...]
Pin It![Reviewed: 101 Condo Buying Tips [Book]](http://www.meetmyuglybaby.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/101-150x150.jpg)
A quick-to-read book with a long title: 101 Streetsmart Condo Buying Tips for Canadians by Douglas Gray (2007) No hype and little enthusiasm – instead, a packed glossary of anything you’ve ever heard a realtor say. Use it as a textbook primer – not summer reading. The author knows his stuff, that’s for damn sure. Reading [...]
Ok. Vancouver. Maybe you saw it in JTT’s classic hit, Man of the House? Or in the background at the Olympics? And definitely in Final Destinations I and III. Whether you’ve ever been here or not, you know Vancouver far better than you think. Every shitty movie ever made – was made here. And after 10 [...]
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Turkey with lashings of laminate. Crowbars and cranberry sauce. It’s Thanksgiving today – and, believe it not, apartment flipping often involves both roast potatoes and gratitude. So, before you go ahead and buy yourself an ugly baby – I’d recommend getting some super sweet friends. The friends you need while renovating The ones that will let [...]
Living in Canada is like being picked last for gym class every goddamned time. Key areas of Canadian sucky shopping? Although the U.S. mall-sprawl is a sad-but-true stereotype, it would be a nice problem to have while renovating and redecorating our apartment on the cheap. At every turn I’m discovering that so many American stores just [...]
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Meet the worst realtor yet. I had to, so… so do you. As our weekends of non-stop Vancouver open houses continue, I’m starting to miss the beach. I think realtors are feeling it too. Still, I’m not getting paid to be there. This weekend we met Bro-Man Baseball Dude, destined for memory as Canada’s worst realtor. Really the [...]
