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Business & Economics Buying & Selling Homes

Buying, Owning and Selling a Home in Canada

by (author) Margaret Kerr & JoAnn Kurtz

Publisher
Wiley
Initial publish date
Dec 2009
Category
Buying & Selling Homes
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780470739679
    Publish Date
    Dec 2009
    List Price
    $27.95

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Description

If you've ever bought, owned, or sold a home--or are about to--you know how exciting and how daunting it can be. Buying, Owning and Selling a Home in Canada, Second Edition, completely revised and updated, tells you absolutely everything you need to know about the joys and headaches of owning a home.

  • Complete on-volume reference on every stage of owning a home.
  • Covers shopping for a mortgage; negotiating your agreement of purchase and sale; signing contracts with renovators, movers, and others; understanding those mpenetrable insurance policies; dealing with problem neighbours and much more.
  • Your "operating manual" for legal issues as well as the everyday problems of home ownership.
  • Written in plain English that's easy to understand.
  • Includes helpful, practical checklists and forms.
  • Tells you what you need to know to prevent and solve many problems on your own.
  • What you need to ask lawyers and other professionals--it may even help to reduce the fees you'll have to pay.
  • Completely revised and updated including: how to look for a home on the Internet and how you can use your home to save, or get more money.
  • Expand information on such topics as: condominium ownership, making offers on a home, and homeowner's insurance, to name just a few.

About the authors

Contributor Notes

Margaret Kerr and JoAnn Kurtz are lawyers with experience in dealing face-to-face with clients' questions and concerns. They have written a number of books, including Make It Legal: What Every Canadian Entrepreneur Needs to Know About the Law, Facing a Death in the Family, and Wills and Estates for Canadians for Dummies-- Planning Kit.

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