Zingers #67 – Keep your smalls hidden

Even if you wear the granny size white wide load undies, rinsing them and leaving your smalls hanging for visitors to see is just bad taste.  Make sure your hand laundry and line drying does not expose you to the viewing, judging eyes of buyers. 

Do not expose your fruit of the loom.

Ottawa Real Estate Availability Today – Stittsville

If you are looking for a home in Stittsville (including Fringewood) in MLS® areas 8201,8202 and 8203, the following property types and price ranges are available* as of this morning:

*These statistics are derived from the Multiple Listing Service® and do not include those properties available through other means such as private sales and transfers.

If you are interested in more information or want to know what becomes available on a daily basis in this area, please contact me at vzinger@royallepage.ca .

Senators Games at the Scotiabank Place

 
    

If you are coming to Ottawa to house hunt and want to spend an evening getting acquainted with our hockey team then go out to a game.  If you live in the west end of the city, keeping game dates in mind will forewarn you of upcoming traffic congestion. To find the dates and more information about the Senator, go to the Senators website. 

  

Photo credit:  Scotiabank Place @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpstorm/137575673/in/photostream/

 

Housewarming Gifts – 3 Ideas For Ottawa Friends Downsizing

When people seem to have everything, it is difficult to buy them gifts.  It becomes even more challenging when it is people you know who are downsizing and have just given St. Vincent de Paul three truckloads of their stuff.  What do you give?  I suggest you only give consumables.

1.  Spa Treatment Gift Certificates – Put the certificate in a box of fancy soaps. 

2. Wine – Who doesn’t need a drink in the middle of unpacking and finding places for everything?

3. Restaurant Gift Certificates – Look for a restaurant near the new home and help introduce your friends to their neighbourhood.

Eat, drink or be massaged.

 Photo credit:  Glittery Glass Ornament Soap @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/soapylove/2863783203/

My Gift to You – Housewarming Gifts – Salt~Bread~Broom

I wrote a short booklet on housewarming gift ideas to help people shop for gifts for their friends.  So many people have searched my site and found the Salt~Bread~Broom article that it motivated me to compile my postings in one document.

I would love to give you a free copy. 

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I hope you enjoy this publication!!!

Zingers #66 – It’s beginning to look a lot

Like Christmas and it shouldn’t unless it is December.  Don’t try to sell you house with the Christmas lights still attached to the eavestroughs and the trees.  Yes, we can see them.  Also, who are you trying to fool by putting on the icicle lights in summer as though it was a lighting feature. 

The song is ancient history as should be your lights.

Ottawa Real Estate Availability Today – Old Ottawa South

If you are looking for a home in Old Ottawa South (MLS® areas 4403 and 4404), the following property types and price ranges would be available*:

Old Ottawa South:

*These statistics are derived from the Multiple Listing Service® and do not include those properties available through other means such as private sales and transfers.

Selling and Decluttering – Office Desk

Have you got a home office?  Has it become the repository of all things unfiled and paper in progress?  Before people walk through your home, take time to sort through your office.  Set up and use the piles:  save and file; toss; and (for bills and letter) pay/respond. 

You will also have a pile of things that belong somewhere else in the house.  While you still have the momentum to declutter the office, do not leave the office to return those things one at a time to their home – coffee cups, mending, dog toys, etc.  Pile these up at the door and, when you are almost done or need a break, take this pile and return the items.  Before you know it, the office will seem bigger and brighter.   

Cut through the clutter to sell your house.

Zingers #65 – Oddly enough

Visually, odd numbers of things are more appealing than even numbers.  For example: 3 pictures grouped on the wall; 1 table book on the coffee table; and, five candles in a dish.  Finds ways to decorate using odd numbered things.

 The truth is “odder” than a fictional sale.

Ottawa Real Estate Availability Today – The Glebe

If you are looking for a home in The Glebe (MLS® areas 4401 and 4402), the following property types and price ranges would be available*:

The Glebe:

*These statistics are derived from the Multiple Listing Service® and do not include those properties available through other means such as private sales and transfers.

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