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How necessary is a home inspection when you’re looking to buy in a seller’s market?

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How necessary is a home inspection when you’re looking to buy in a seller’s market?

First of all, what is a sellers market? A seller’s market is when there is a low inventory of homes available to sell or more buyers than homes. Whereas the opposite is true with a buyer’s market. There are more homes for sale than there are buyers wanting to buy. When it’s a seller’s market every house you put an offer in on has to be your best offer with little to no conditions. That means paying in cash, the mortgage is ready to go, no home inspection and buying a home, “as-is“. If you fail to go over the...

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Have you ever found landscaping supplies for free? Well, we did and so can you.

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Have you ever found landscaping supplies for free? Well, we did and so can you.

Finding free landscaping supplies has been successful for us over the years and I wanted to share with you a few tips that we’ve learned. If you’re an avid reader of Canadian Budget Binder you already know how much we enjoy gardening. Below are a few of our most popular gardening posts you should check out after reading this blog post today. How to build a rock garden with weed protection Landscaping Your Home On A Budget Starting Your Frugal Garden From Seed How To Find Free Plants For Your Garden Growing a Budget Garden How To Grow Pot Potatoes...

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Tips To Get Through Remote Learning And Working From Home

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Tips To Get Through Remote Learning And Working From Home

As I sit here and take a deep breath before shovelling my stress from remote learning and working from home.  Telecommuting at home for work and trying to keep our son who has a sensory processing disorder is exhausting. Sensory processing disorder (SPD) is a condition in which the nervous system is unable to properly process sensory input, and as a result, the patient can become easily overwhelmed (or underwhelmed) in the presence of ‘normal’ levels of sensory input. SPD can lead to problems with attention, learning, behavior and moods (such as anxiety, anger, aggression and frustration). Telecommuting Is The...

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Christmas Breakfast And Family Is Everything

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Christmas Breakfast And Family Is Everything

Both Mrs. CBB and I get up early before everyone else to start making our planned Christmas Breakfast. Christmas morning food and drinks wake the crew up as does a couple of pounds of bacon. The lights on the Christmas tree is what motivates us to start preparing Christmas Breakfast. You just get that feeling, well we do but I don’t know about anyone else but it feels good. It’s a day where everything is closed in town and we are free from the stress of work, so we cook. Plus it’s also the same day we cook a massive...

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