I agree with Mitch. These quotes seem rediculously high to me. We recently built our own home which has an upstairs sq/ftage of 1850 and it cost us only $6000 for the whole thing. From primer to finish. I would look around some more , or find a handyman yourself and pay for you own materials. (...

Most of these are all availiable in the downloads section on the top of page, then go to the due diligence section

Thanks for the links, I thought they should be there somewhere but couldn`t find them. So if I read this correctly on a $300000 purchase with $15000 GST, I would only receive $8100 of my GST back.

I have just been told that if I purchase a brand new property that I will have to pay the GST on it because it will be a rental. If I were to live in it , then it would be deferred back to the builder. Is this correct, and if so is there any way I can recover some of the GST being paid out?

Ther is a fraud reporting option and this is not the only thing that is happening. Every once in a while they will advertise a car,quad or sled tjhat is like new for about 1/3 of what it should be. I was interested in a quad this guy was selling, and he wanted me to put my money into a 3rd...

Thanks for all the feedback and reassurance, the property cash flows very well ( about $1000/month ) so I`m not worried about that part. I will be taking care of the property since it is in my hometown and my first, ( Would rather be a little hands on to start with ) Now that I`ve slept on it...

Holy bad taste in my mouth, I had 2 offers in place on 2 seperate properties and the realtor that told us that the pending deal from a different couple had fallen through, so I was the sole buyer.She comes back to my realtor today and tells her that the other couple had called her back this...

Well after waiting until all the hoopla of waiting to see if we were still going to have a Conservative government or not, I have done all my numbers and wrote up 2 offers today for a total of $600000. I`m stressing out a little because that is alot of money but I`m keeping the faith that...

This is great info everyone!! The property is an #A & #B but just a normal house. (Front entrance for upstairs and back entrance for downstairs. ) The area is Grande Prairie So then everyones general guesses would still be around $50000 more?

If there were 2 properties side by side and one had a legally suited basement, how much more would that be worth? Generally speaking $25000,$50000,$75000 more? Just some thoughts and input what everyone thinks would be great. Warren

I just veiwed a potentail condo and noticed that there is a crack in the basement foundation that seems to have leaked at least once before. My question is this, Is the condo assoc. responsible for the repair or the owner?

QUOTE (DaveRhydderch @ Jan 20 2009, 12:52 PM) Hi Warren, Lots of good info here. I actually have a question as a Realtor who is constantly trying to do better. Why do you think one agent will be better as a buyer and one as a seller? Thats a very intriguing observation to me. Mostly just on...

Is there anything saying that I can`t have 2 different agents working for me, One doing the selling and the other as a buyer? I have 2 agents in mind but think that they are better suited for one or the other. Since I will be mostly buying for the next little while would it be better to go with...

QUOTE (ReX357 @ Jan 3 2009, 11:54 AM) Hey I`m from Grande-Prairie too. That could be interesting. I don`t attend the meetings I`m a by mail member. But I`m sure interested in finding JV`s. Lemme know jberube@berubegraphics.com I`ve actually met a few from here at the meetings now, so once we...

I am new to REIN and was wondering if anyone in the Grande Prairie area would be interested in setting up a team. Just some like minded people talking real estate over coffee a coup[le times a month or so, and maybe investing together in some JV`s. Also can maybe do some car pooling back and...