Financial Tips for Refinancing Your Home

September 22nd, 2011 Category: Opinion, Real Estate One comment
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The following is a guest post by bills.com.

Refinancing your home is essentially a great tool to restructure your debt (mortgage) or debts (mortgage + other loans) into 1 new mortgage with a

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Canadian REITS: Yours to Discover

December 21st, 2010 Category: Canadian Stocks, Investing, Real Estate 22 comments
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Last week I covered 3 investment ideas for 2011which included REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts, pronounced “reets”) as a sector that could witness further gains as yield hungry investors look for a

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Why I choose to pay down the mortgage faster instead of investing

November 3rd, 2010 Category: Investing, Opinion, Real Estate 45 comments
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Back in the summer of 2008 I bought my house and went with a variable rate mortgage at prime – 0.50. When I picked my

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Saying Yes to the Home-Ownership Dream

October 20th, 2010 Category: Opinion, Real Estate 9 comments
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This post is my reply to the Globe and Mails article posted today titled “saying no to the home-ownership dream”. The author Noreen Rasbach uses several reasons to justify her title.

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