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Tip #99: “Clean like you’ve never cleaned before” (page 11). I’m going to hate selling. Tip #1? ”Start packing! Begin the move-out process as soon as you decide to sell” (page 5). I’m going to love selling. I didn’t expect to enjoy a book by two realtors… but it’s lovely. For such a skinny little book, I [...]
Want to perform surgery with my door handles? You could. They’re clean. But it’s taken a while. From sooty walls, to greasy cabinets and that carpet, we’ve seen a lot of filth, haven’t we? More Really Dirty Baby than ugly, the cleaning has been just as much work as renovating. Now that it’s finally clean [...]
This time last year, we Vancouverites were getting used to helicopters, motorcades and lots of Scandinavians criss-crossing our city. We were running into the flame wherever we went. There was a buzz – and we couldn’t wait. February 12, 2010 will remain the only time I gladly sat in freezing rain all night – never [...]
Not just someone. Fifty or a hundred someones. I sense major house hunting competition. This entire afternoon, other awful people were looking at my apartment to renovate, my ugly baby, in awe – trying to make it theirs as well. Damn that 2nd open house. Why can’t there be an apocalypse to wipe out other ugly-baby-buyers? I considered returning for a [...]
OMGOMGOMGOMG. It’s so ugly. We’ve been looking – for months – for an apartment to renovate. We finally saw the potential ugly baby today, the ugly house with no listing photos. It’s so ugly. So ugly I laughed when I saw the bathroom. Actual LOLZ. So frightfully hideous I couldn’t stop smiling. A group of well-heeled Chinese [...]
While I’m looking for the ugliest house out there, agents are working against me – trying to sell properties for their beauty and features. Spinning not-so-great things as wunderbar. Endless talk of gorgeous, stunning, and spectacular. No. All wrong. I want anti-stunning. No stunning. It can have good bones, even benefits (light! bright! spacious!) but [...]
I think realtors are weird. Do they even know what a weekend is for? It’s for not getting dressed until, like, noon. At least. And if it’s raining? Why go outside ever? I only do so to hunt, then kill, a fat eggs benedict. As I’ve determined I hate house hunting, I’m beginning to pity a realtor’s weekend: [...]
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 [...]
Watch out Vancouver, it’s open season on your open houses. This Saturday was our first “Ok, now we’re officially searching” open house. Much different to the “Dude, I am totally being nosy and getting away with it” open house. Was I meant to dress up? I did. I made an OCD, colour-coded list of our attack-plan [...]
