To echo what everyone else has said about staging, get rid of ANYTHING personal. You should even get rid of anything that speaks about your hobbies. Put all of that into storage. Even remove some of your items in your storage room/pantry/closets as there should be zero clutter (even if it's neatly organized). There should nothing on your counters/surfaces except for items that are being used for staging purposes (artwork, misc decor, plants, etc). Everything should be clean and spotless - including all nooks and crevices. Don't forget about the windows.

A good realtor will provide you with a list of requirements that you need to complete before they even bring the photographer. They should also be able to guide you through the staging process. Ask them how they will prepare your unit/house for an open house or viewing. If the answer doesn't include playing some anonymous jazz music and setting out a spread of cheese/cookies/biscuits/wine, find another realtor.

wut? jazz music and setting out a spread of cheese/cookies/biscuits/wine??

if you know of any open houses that do this hook me up...wouldnt mind a free snack with a free house tour

but seriously tone it down on those reality tv shows...

Jazz and a charcuterie board - now that's a first.

I can understand the light background music, but the food?? Lost me there. I'd presume this is before Covid. If during, I'd really give my head a shake.

If an open house isn't playing some smooth jazz as I walk in I leave immediately.

Just saying! If you're paying your selling agent over 10k (and shelling out 20k to both agents combined) to sell a 600sqft condo i would hope they are pulling out all the stops.

Lol I've been to lots of open houses and never heard music or had anything to eat hahaha

mine didn't feed me grapes or provide blow job FeelsBadMan

I guess for the homes I lost out in bidding wars I would have offered more had there been some appetizers cuz really I’m not interested in upping my bid by 50-100k since I wasn’t served some fine wine and/or hors d’oeuvre

My X used to be a realtor, nothing fancy or high end, but when i went to her listings / open house, there's always back ground music she brings to play on her Boze to give it a good vibe.

On the higher end houses, there were cookies and stuff.. but i'm talking about 2 M + open houses

Why not just give blow jobs and soapy massages while you're at it.

I'd come check that out

I've seen a documentary about that.

In Vancouver, I would hardly consider $2M “high end” :lol

I hear some agents will help you pick the grapes. :troll:

It looks like the era of the $1 million condo water damage deductible has arrived in the Lower Mainland (subject strata is a 15-year old Bosa-built building in Burnaby):

https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/c...e_has_arrived/

I am surprised something like this actually got passed at the AGM. If I were a resident at that building, I know damn well that I'm going to move dafuq out and sell as soon as it becomes feasible because a clause like that effectively defeats the purpose of purchasing insurance in the first place.
FailFish

I heard a rumour that due to high radon levels in some areas having a test done may become a condition of sale. Has anyone else heard this or know if it would apply to all buildings or just those with basements?

I got a little notice in the mail from the gov't about radon testing a couple days ago so I'm guessing that's connected.

Don’t wanna pay, don’t flood your unit?

Somone asked me about radon when renting out my suite, although my suite is pretty much at grade so not a concern

I thought Radon was almost strictly a Midwest thing with virtually no concern here

Exactly this.
We don't know the full story behind it but as per Traum's response, my best guess is they had a number of flood issues and now their deductible is at $1M.
Something as simple as people hanging clothing on the fire sprinklers. Someone frying chicken and caused a fire.
It's not something that was passed at the AGM for the fun of it.

Normal ppl generally don’t flood their unit to the point of causing damage to multiple units, it’s almost always complete utter negligence.

If I was anyone in that building I’d pay a plumber an hour to come in and check every connection, change all the feed lines, maybe even install water alarms in high risk areas

$200 could potentially prevent any issue

This is great advice. Happened to us twice in 2 different condos.

First ime, we were home when the water intake pipe broke on the washing machine.
We were able to turn the water off and only had localized pooling of water which was quickly taken care of by a shop vac.

Second time, the people that installed out new washer didn't properly tighten the connection and the pipe popped off. again, local pooling which was taken care of by a shop vac.

Had that happen when we were not home, it could have been a lot worse.

1mil condo looks to be by Paterson skytrain, was already 500k before... now 1mil