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10/29/2026

Deals rarely fall apart over price.

Price is the part everyone negotiates and the part everyone expects. What actually kills deals is quieter — an inspection nobody prepared for, financing that was never really confirmed, an insurer who says no, a strata document with a special assessment sitting in it in writing.

Five of them here. Every one is findable in advance.

Almost none of this is about the price. It's about what nobody checked.

10/28/2026

Nobody photographs this part.

Listing photos are the house on its best day. Wide angle, sunny, nothing on the counters, nobody home.

You're not buying that day. You're buying a Tuesday in February with groceries in your arms and somewhere to put them down.

So when we walk through, I ask boring questions. Where do the shoes go. Is there somewhere to put a wet dog. Can two people be in this kitchen at the same time.

Pretty is easy to photograph. Liveable is the thing you keep.

10/24/2026

What a listing agent actually does.

Commission is a fair question and it deserves a real answer, so here's the work rather than the pitch.

Pricing that's written down and defensible. A walkthrough with a trade's eye and an honest fix list. Media good enough that the photo does the showing. And a negotiation where price is one of five terms that matter.

Anyone can list a house. The work is everything either side of it.

10/21/2026

I talked them out of it.

Right house, wrong house for them. The commute was going to be forty minutes each way and they'd convinced themselves they would get used to it. The yard was a project neither of them actually wanted. And the number to make it work was bigger than anyone was saying out loud.

I don't get paid for that one. I'd do it again tomorrow.

The job isn't to sell you a house. It's to be honest about the one in front of you.

10/17/2026

I walk the property line before we list.

Fences move. They get replaced by whoever was motivated that year, and they end up close to the line rather than on it. Sheds get built. Hedges creep.

None of it matters until a buyer's lawyer pulls the survey in week three and suddenly your deal has a question in it that nobody can answer by Friday.

It takes four minutes. I've never once regretted the four minutes.

10/14/2026

Fix this before the rain starts. Not after.

Almost everything an inspector writes up on the Island starts with water going somewhere it shouldn't. Not a dramatic leak — water that's been going the wrong way for eleven years and only shows itself in November.

Five things, all outside the house, all cheap in September and all expensive in February.

A dry crawlspace in January is worth more than any staging you'll ever pay for. And it costs less.

10/12/2026

Thanksgiving on the Island. The one long weekend nobody has to get on a ferry for.

I was born here. I've spent most of my life here. The thing I'm most consistently grateful for is that the place I work is also the place I'd choose to live.

Happy Thanksgiving. Eat too much.

10/10/2026

Long weekend starts now.

Whatever your version of this looks like — cooking for twelve, or a walk and takeout — I hope you get some of it.

10/08/2026

Moving to the Island? Five things nobody tells you first.

I get this call a lot, usually from someone who spent a weekend here in July and decided.

I'm not going to talk you out of it. I was born here. But there are five things that surprise almost everyone, and every one of them is easier to sort out before you buy than after.

None of them are reasons not to come.

10/07/2026

Know what your Poly-B costs before they do.

Grey plastic supply lines, common in BC homes built roughly between 1978 and 1998. It's the thing that comes up most often on the Island.

It isn't automatically failing, and I'm not telling you to repipe the house before we list. But a buyer's agent will spot it, an inspector will write it up, and an insurer will ask about it — and all three of those land after you've accepted an offer.

So here's what I want in hand before that happens: two or three real quotes to replace it. Actual plumbers, actual walkthrough, an actual number for your house.

Because the moment it comes up in negotiation, the question stops being "how bad is this?" and becomes "here's what it costs, and here's the paperwork." You're negotiating against a figure you brought. They're negotiating against one they imagined — and the one they imagine is always bigger.

Same pipe. Very different conversation.

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Victoria, BC
V9C4G1

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