buying a condo Archives - The Outlier Model

2 Cats and one dumb realtor

realtor, experience with realtors, bylaws, house contract

CF / June 13th, 2013 / 19 Comments

Recently, a 2 bedroom and den unit in my condo building sold. After the sale, the realtor left notices at every unit boasting of how he sold the unit for “more than any other unit” had ever sold for and that he would be happy to “assess” any other units that were thinking of selling. Photo credit: barbourians via flickr I wasn’t very impressed – there aren’t...

Posted in: Real Estate Tagged with: buying a condo, buying a condo in vancouver, pet bylaws, strata bylaws, two bedroom condo

Hey, we bought another condo!

condo buying market, buying a condo, condo properties

CF / November 14th, 2012 / 52 Comments

Regular readers might recall that Brian and I were in the condo buying market. We had been saving up money for a while and with current interest rates and prices, we wanted to add a second condo to our burgeoning collection. We did announce it on one of our weekly updates, but I never wrote a blog about it. We just finished signing the mortgage papers this week, so it seemed like as good a time...

Posted in: Real Estate Tagged with: buying a condo, buying a condo in vancouver, first condo, first home purchase, hipster central, things to look for when buying a home, Vancouver condo prices

Updates: September 23 – 29

Brian / September 29th, 2012 / 13 Comments

Pfew, what a week. As you might have guessed with the real estate themed posts lately, we’re exploring the market and looking to buy a second condo in the area. Nothing firm to share yet, but we’ll definitely share some details when we have enough information to warrant an update. It’s been a busy week around the web as well and I think this is the biggest list of blogs and mentions...

Posted in: Weekly Updates Tagged with: buying a condo, guest post, Planwise, real estate, US retirement accounts, US Retirement Investment Vehicle Class

Real estate update 2011

Real estate update, real estate, rental property, condo, renting out a property, property investment

CF / January 20th, 2011 / 4 Comments

Buying the first condo We bought our first condo at the age of 25, in March 2010. Hard to believe, but even with the mortgage, strata, taxes and money set aside for maintenance, we were paying less for our condo per month than what we paid to rent in Vancouver! When we first bought the condo, it was assessed at 210k. At the time, we paid 250k for it, 10k less than the asking price. We got our...

Posted in: Home, Real Estate Tagged with: buying a condo, renting vs buying, renting your condo, Vancouver