All Forum Posts by: Michael Stole

Do they hire real estate agents as their regular employees so they repeatedly use the same agents for their listings?

Hi, BPers, I just moved to Ottawa Canada. Any agents or investors in this area?

I am looking for an apartment for myself, as well as investment opportunities. I plan to drive around this and next weekend. Which areas should I check?

BTW, it seems the condo market here does not qualify the 2% rule. According to my limited observation these days, a $200k condo can only rent for $1500 max.

I am wondering if HUD take listing agents' suggestions on whether to accept an offer or not. Any insider information will be appreciated.

Thanks, folks. I also would like to know if I can put a inspection contingency in the contract, so if there is any problem found in the final inspection, I can force the builder to fix it or I can back out. Just like in a standard offer contact for buying a house.

Hello, folks. I am recently concern with quality control in building a new house. What could be measures of quality of a builder's work? And can I make the compensation contingent on these measures of quality in the contract? How to do that? Thanks.

And will be there for at least 3 years. Is anyone from there? How is the real estate market over there? Look forward to networking with any real estate professionals over there.

Such problems as high HOA fee, delayed maintenance, and restricted rental rules, are problems only when you purchase one unit in a large condo.

When you can buy multiple units in a small condo, say 7 out of 10, then you can control the board of directors, and none of these problem exist, because every thing is now up to you.

Is this correct?

Thanks, J, it seems the contract is quite standard in each state.

A broker usually owns several offices in different places. I am wondering whether different offices use different contract designed by themselves, or they are all using the same standard contract? Thanks for any information.

Hi, Craig, since you are a broker yourself, so I think you can do all these works yourself and most likely you can provide better services to yourself than the agent did. So why don't you do all these yourself, and represent yourself's best interest?

Oh, you wanna free yourself from the work, now I see......