首次买房，有事请教
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The advantage of a new house: 1) Your own choise, color, model, upgragdes, etc. Those you cannot be selected by a resale house. 2) Less repaire work, especially compare to an aged resale house. 3) You are the first owner, so you know the history of the house.
The advantage for a resale house: 1) Well-established community. 2) The house if finished, no more waiting for repair, landscape, etc.
The advantage for a resale house: 1) Well-established community. 2) The house if finished, no more waiting for repair, landscape, etc.
The new house price is higher now. You can see how many people visiting the builder's office and show room. Actually, the builder applied mess land permission from the city this year. That is an indication that the new houses are hard to sell in the next year.
If you are not happy with agent after you signed the "buyer agent agreement", or you changed mind to buy house, you can cancel it. But you need first talk to the agent. Most agents will agree to stop the agreement. Otherwise, you should not trust him for whatever reason.
My friend, who is a very nice and generous person. But that agent used his character and put him in a very painful situation.
This is not a short story. My friend may provide more details online to let you avoid such a bad crook. Since it's pre-court trail stage, he is conservative to release the details now.
The lesson from this is:
* be careful if a agent make you feel not confortable either by his words or his behaviours. That usually means he does not care about you in his heart.
* do not accept any offer from a agent to do any kind of bussiness (such as investing on a real estate property) with him, even if it sounds good, especially do not buy a house in your name (on buy/sale agreement) but actaully owned by you and him (or his family member).
* do not accept any home inspector or lawyer he actively suggested to you. Usually there is some kind of business connection beween him and those inpector and lawyer and at certain point that kind of invisible connection does not serve your purpose. As for lawyer, I know Anderson Zeng is a very reliable one, although her service fee is a little bit high (but in line with most of lawyers).
* do not be pushed by a agent to sign a waive that you do not really understand and ready. Do not be easily convinced by you agent to sign something so "to have a good impression on the vendor and the vendor's agent". That only makes your agent "more capable to sell" to other agents. No benefit for you.
* keep any evidences as much as possible, because someday you may need them.
* if you feel the agent treat you badly and you have evidence to prove it, you may try to complain to RECO. But do not expect the agent got punished because he may cook another story and the RECO never investigates the truth.
At this moment, I suggest to any one, who need a agent to buy a resale house or new house, to avoid that agent. One word as a lawyer said: "he is a good crook".
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非常重要的是：
1。 不要雇佣任何AGENT！！！
原因很简单-- 如果你从房主受中直接买房，没有中介，房价会便宜一些，当然你不能指望房主将所有或半数的节省下的中介费作为BONUS，但是，便宜2~3千块还是可以的。不要以外不付中介费，就以为捡了个便宜，事实上，你付在房价中了。
2。 一两年新的房子，最值得购买！！！
几乎是新房，没有新房维修的麻烦(NEED MANY MANY PHONE CALLS)，窗帘，花园，DOOR OPENER(S)， A/C，加湿器，洗碗机，等等等等已安装完毕(一般价值超过5000$)，并且，必备的UPGRADES通常已由前任房主完成(一般价值在一万元左右，而建筑商通常在你购房前不告知此项开支)，而最后的价钱与新房相当。
CHECK www.grapevine.on.ca OR Ottawa Citizen for the house sale by owner.
1。 不要雇佣任何AGENT！！！
原因很简单-- 如果你从房主受中直接买房，没有中介，房价会便宜一些，当然你不能指望房主将所有或半数的节省下的中介费作为BONUS，但是，便宜2~3千块还是可以的。不要以外不付中介费，就以为捡了个便宜，事实上，你付在房价中了。
2。 一两年新的房子，最值得购买！！！
几乎是新房，没有新房维修的麻烦(NEED MANY MANY PHONE CALLS)，窗帘，花园，DOOR OPENER(S)， A/C，加湿器，洗碗机，等等等等已安装完毕(一般价值超过5000$)，并且，必备的UPGRADES通常已由前任房主完成(一般价值在一万元左右，而建筑商通常在你购房前不告知此项开支)，而最后的价钱与新房相当。
CHECK www.grapevine.on.ca OR Ottawa Citizen for the house sale by owner.
