Tip #2 – Be prepared for the additional costs that come with your first home purchase.
When considering what money you’ll need when buying a home, the sale price of the home itself, including your down payment and fees to your real estate agent if you use one, are the obvious costs that come to mind. But there’s more, and in order to avoid any nasty surprises in the weeks leading up to your closing date, make sure you’re prepared …
Buying your first home is both an exciting and intimidating experience. Being a relatively recent first-time homebuyer myself, as well as a practicing real estate lawyer, I’ve picked up a few tips and tricks I’ll be sharing over the course of this series that I hope will help make the process less stressful and more exciting.
First and foremost, whether you have a real estate agent or not, and whether you’re buying a condo or a house, you’re going to …
October 17, 2014 was the deadline for all federally incorporated not-for-profit corporations to have transitioned under the new Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act. This process included replacing letters patent and by-laws with new charter documents and my personal experience proved this process to be relatively straight-forward and beneficial for a number of reasons, including requiring all applicable corporations to truly review and revise their corporate documentation to best suit their current needs. All in all, a positive endeavor.
Now, it …
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