Tag Archives: Building Permit

Building a Deck? Build it Right.

I was reading an article by lawyer Mark Weisleder the other day called 7 Things to Know When Building a Backyard Deck and it reminded me of something that happened very early on in my real estate career. It was the early 90s and the residential real estate market in central Toronto wasn’t anything like it […]

Need More Space?

If you bought a home in central Toronto during the past 20 years or so, you probably made a conscious decision to choose central Toronto’s urban lifestyle over the much larger home you could have bought for the same price elsewhere. Good choice because Toronto is such a great place to live. But what happens […]

Building Permits – Yay or Nay?

If you were renovating your home and a building permit was required, would you obtain the permit or would you try to have the work done without a permit?  Write your answer down now and compare it to your answer when you finish reading this. Building permits are always required when you build a new home and are […]