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Selling items effectively on Craigslist

Selling items effectively, selling, craigslist, seller

CF / November 26th, 2012 / 33 Comments

Brian and I got rid of a lot of items prior to our move to the new condo. One of the reasons was practical – we simply didn’t have the room in the new place to keep everything! A lesser but equally important reason – we wanted to pare down on the number of items that we had. But what to do with all our crap? There was furniture, books, clothes… even a electric blue...

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Contest: ID this plant!

CF / August 24th, 2012 / 16 Comments

This contest is now closed – thanks for entering! Congratulations to Ying for correctly guessing “Collard Greens” via Twitter! Here’s another Friday quickie for you guys: Help us ID this plant! We have a community garden plot which occasionally gets seedling donations. We received this mysterious plant recently in an unlabelled pot! I have a pretty good idea of what it is,...

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Gardening on the balcony

Gardening, grow your own, balcony garden, balcony gardening

CF / May 31st, 2012 / 11 Comments

It’s been about four weeks since Brian and I started up the balcony garden. We knew that it would be tough – our balcony is large but north-facing so there isn’t a lot of sun exposure. But at the same time, we didn’t want to be discouraged. There’s also a lot of great resources available online for those who are interested in small space gardening. Well, the initial...

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Dealing with condo emergencies

condo emergencies, emergencies, property emergency, broken pipe

CF / March 2nd, 2012 / 6 Comments

It’s Friday and I’m miserable because my leg is in pain and gimped up, its damn cold and now, my condo is leaking. Yep. Of course it’s leaking, what else would it do on a Friday afternoon? I received the email shortly after 1pm. My helpful tenant remarked that “several litres” of water came out of the ceiling. All sorts of horror scenarios ran through my head...

Posted in: Home, Real Estate Tagged with: dealing with emergencies, Emergency fund, home emergencies, homeowner insurance, pipe leaks, tenant insurance