This post is the sixth in a series on my family’s decision to downsize. Links to previous posts can be found at the end of this article. By now, my family and I had decided that it was time to downsize. We had even planned where we wanted to move AND — talk about putting […]
Ego is a B*tch: When Downsizing is Right-Sizing
This is the fifth post in a series on my family’s decision to downsize and how we went about doing it — the good, the bad, and the ugly. You can find links to previous posts in this series at the end of this article. I’m worried that I’ve made it seem like my family’s […]
Selling a Lifestyle Change: When Downsizing is Right-Sizing
This post is the fourth in a series on downsizing, written about my own personal experience with this painful yet liberating process. The first post can be found here, the second here, and the third here. Our decision to downsize did not come about in a linear, straightforward way. It was much more fluid. Feeling […]
Cutting the Cable Won’t Cut It: When Downsizing is Right-Sizing
This is the third post in a series on downsizing, written about my own personal experience with this painful yet liberating process. The first post can be found here and the second here. In my previous post, I spoke about how critical it was to put all of your expenses and income down on paper. […]
I don’t want you to move.
I don’t want you to move. I really don’t. I know that may sound strange coming from someone who makes her living and feeds her family by helping people buy and sell homes. And who is currently writing a blog post series about her own family’s adventures in downsizing. But I don’t want you to […]
This is Your Life, So You’d Better Take the Reins: When Downsizing is Right-Sizing
This is the second post in a series on downsizing, written about my own personal experience with this painful yet liberating process. The first post, “When Downsizing is Right-Sizing,” can be found here. There’s a scene in The Sopranos where Carmela, Tony Soprano’s wife, is a bit lost, her world beginning to unfurl. She was […]
When Downsizing is Right-Sizing
I’m going to tell you a story. It’s about a man and a woman who were on top of the world with their two wonderful boys. They had a beautiful house in the suburbs with great neighbours, a steady income, and a happy life. In fact, she would often say out loud, just randomly, “I […]
A word on our blistering hot real estate market
If you know me, you know that I’m pretty temperate in the tone of my blogs and emails, that I don’t get off on ramping people up unnecessarily, and that I would never scream “Now is the time to sell!” just to artificially ramp up business. So it is somewhat surprising that I find myself […]
On real estate photography
I get asked a lot, “Why don’t you take your own photos? You would probably do a good job. And you’d save some money.” Here’s why: Because the vast majority of home buyers “shop” for homes on the web, and if your place doesn’t look great in photos, many won’t even bother coming to see […]
Snapshot of the Kirkland QC Real Estate Market
By now you’ve probably seen the headlines exalting the quick pace of the Montreal real estate market in the first quarter of 2016. Here’s a focus on one of the micro-markets where I work a lot: Kirkland QC. First Quarter Sales of Kirkland Single Family Homes Q1 2016: 49 homes sold, median sold price of […]
