Buying, Owning and Selling a Home in Canada: Edition 2

Margaret Kerr · JoAnn Kurtz

Dec 2009 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons

About this eBook

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 author

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.