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Create Multiple Offers - Toronto Real Estate

10-30-09
David Pylyp
Lets Get Multiple offers on that property now! If we reduce the price to an absurd level, surely the Buyers will come out in droves and bid with wild frenzy.
What will happen? Yes the OPEN HOUSES will be absolute traffic stoppers! Yes HUNDREDS of people will come out for the carnival atmosphere that has been created.
Lets take some brand new homes on a busier feeder street in West Toronto and add a frenzy of home shoppers in the hottest propertunity we have had in Toronto Real Estate since 1988.

While reducing the asking price to below the expectation will bring additional attention from shoppers and create a bidding war for your property; Taking listings and placing them on the market at 25% of the intended sales value seems to bring out different reactions.

How would you feel about the advertised price not being available. The owner is not required to sell you the advertised item. YUP Read that again. How would you feel in the middle of 300 other families looking at each other and the same house?

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Getting Ranked on Google for your Key words

10-22-09
David Pylyp

You can achieve a Top ranking for Google or Bing, When you decide what your Key word focus will be. My focus has been; Homes west Toronto.

You need to blog about everything [your town] Issues for seniors, Assistance from Local State/Province Government for Home owners, All heat; energy; water credits available. Blog about the local sports teams. Get their team Photo's on your site and blogs. Name the photo when you upload [Town, Localism, Topic, Key word]

This will also be on your site as a resource and blogged about as a topic. This provides the Localism as community.

Remember Site content is king. Everything about your community.

What do internet shoppers want To look at listings! Let them!

Back link Back link Back link To those that are free; todays PR0 may be tomorrows PR5 Register on every directory you can find. Google Free real estate directories.

Use the Ning networks, Social Media of Facebook and Twitter to promote your web pages and greet new people Create relationships on line. Form local tweet ups.

Huge Juice is available from Google Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNRhMYMMFpU

Craigs, Kijiji oodle, There are literally hundreds of sites to replicate your ads. When advertising on line; Place listing ads for the inventory you have all with strategic titles - What - where [neighbourhood key words] Place service ads for localism, market evaluations, relocation to [locality]

When you have enough they will seem to aggregate seemingly as if by magic.

Have a look around my sites and blogs. Help yourself and lets Share a few idea's. Don't steal it! (You can, But its Canadian and Hyperlinked to me) Make it your own by changing it and taking it local, to you!

Have a Lawyer Interviewed and comment on issues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvDIVfck46U

Add a few comments on the blogs. Comment on Newspaper and internet articles (with Backlinks to your site) How does that new business in town rate.. How was that restaurant.. Do they want to advertise on your website? Gain an advocate for yourself.

Work Jointly with a Home stager to get people higher sales values. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie08_FuTCnc

Become a voice on local and specialized forums with a signature that creates back link activity to your site or blogs.

Give people a reason to come back and look at your site again. Give them an opportunity to sign up. That will create a lead for you to market and send email to. The internet is a free and open terrain to involve a new generation. We need to embrace it.

Everyone asks about PAID Adwords. Hey I tried, If you can afford it, Go for it. If you get "them" to your site and there is nothing to read or sign up for...what have you gained? So you still need content and localism for credibility and return readership.

Get a real estate website coach to help you through the growing pains. Not to do the work, to help you learn the creative process, so that you can instruct your staff or employee to create that market personna that will help you! Google reads computer code not Flashy thingys on your website.

Eat the elephant [Google] one bite at a time. I am pleased with an extra 4 or 5 fresh faces that put up their hands and say yes I would like to Buy a house in Toronto.

Toronto Real Estate Update mid Oct 09

10-17-09
David Pylyp
Thanksgiving is past, Halloween approaches, and the Toronto Real estate market continues unabated. Media is reporting the “hot market” mid-month check of the Toronto Real Estate Board stats. TREB has reported 4,002 sales so far in October which trends toward another record month; Home sellers are not putting their houses or condos up for sale to satisfy the available buyers. This vacuum is creating a cycle of endless multiple offers.
As fewer are listed More multiple offers. Typically as a seasonally adjusted average the number of homes should increase between August and October. This year the numbers have actually decreased slightly. Right now there are 15,K homes for sale. Last year there were 27K.Rates are stable at 2.25% Variable and below 4.2 for 5 years.


Buyers I am working with right now are struggling to understand why there are bidding wars for properties in the under $500K range in Toronto. The 400 to 500 thousand dollar pocket seems to be the Double Income, No Kids, (DINKS) price point. Human nature is filling their need.
If you would like an analytical and sensible conversation about real estate and selling your home I welcome your calls and comments. Talk with someone that has 21 years experience with filling your housing needs. Remember, Experience is not expensive but it is priceless.

Common Law - Selling the House

10-17-09
David Pylyp
In Canada there are defined rules about marital Assets and Common Law is a topic of concern for many couples. No matter the length of the relationship, the original owner retains legal control. Take this high profile case and apply it here; What would you do?
Wang, 33, was arraigned and released on her own recognizance. She is due back in court Jan. 14. The complaint alleges that the couple were arguing inside their apartment at 101 West 24 St. at 1 a.m. on Sept. 15 when Wang struck English in the face with a watch, causing a cut that required seven stitches. Wang faces up to seven years in state prison on the assualt charge, and one year in jail on the weapon charge.

What a difference a few weeks makes. Wang and English had dated for two years, and were scheduled to get married Oct. 3 at the St. Regis Hotel in New York. But English had second thoughts and phoned Wang to cancel just hours before they were due to get hitched. English revealed in an interview with the Globe earlier this week that he and Wang had been having problems, that she had hit him during arguments, including the episode with the watch.

English didn’t file assault charges immediately, but decided to do so Monday after Wang told the New York Post that she’d been dumped on the day of her wedding and then booted from the New York apartment she shared with the chef.

Stan Gelman, Lawyer Divorce and Family Law in Mississauga adds his perspective;


Simply put; A common law spouse has no property rights. The Spouse on Title could place the property for sale at their sole discretion and keep the entire proceeds. Where would you live?

If you find yourself needing or wanting a new place to hang your hat or move your shoe collection, give me a ring.

As always, add your housing Horror story, we learn through experience.

Buy an EX Grow house in Mississauga

10-15-09
David Pylyp
Illegal marijuana-growing operations, which take advantage of large properties or are conducted in a rental unit whose title is in someone else's name, have become more visible in the past 10 years, said Jim Murphy, president of the Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals.
Stan Gelman Lawyer Mississauga is of the same sentiment; Buyers need to protect themselves when buying Marijuana grow houses. These properties are not legally suitable for habitation because of the potential for health damage from Mould. Often renovations have been made to the structure that need to be repaired. A qualified and reputable Home Inspection Company should be used as well as a company that specializes in remedial action on mold removal if required.



When you are working with professional experienced people they will know what clauses to use to protect your interest and what experienced trades people may need to be included in your purchase of a grow house.
Experience is not expensive, but it is priceless.