Question: Does a residential lease that was originally listed on the MLS get registered the same way a sale does? In other words, can you look it up after to …
Stackable Conditions Work Well
You don’t always have to have all your Conditions spelled out one after the other taking up pages and pages in an agreement. Why not consider stacking them? Let’s merge …
Going Unconditional in Ontario
Question: How do you firm up a deal and make it binding? Answer: Watch for the correct terminology. The Agreement was already “binding” and it was “firm”. However, it contained …
Disclosure of a Death in the House
Fundamental Difference Question: Do you have to disclose a death? What if it was a suicide? What if it was a murder? Answer: Sometimes you do and sometimes you don’t. …
Another Couple of Strange Schedule “B” Clauses
They keep coming up. People just don’t understand the law or are too cheap to retain a lawyer to draft up clauses for their Brokerage. Deposit “In the event no …
Root of Title Example
(Ontario) Let’s assume that A grants the right to B to sell his property. That right is evidenced by a Power of Attorney. A dies, and the POS is no …
Delayed Possession Date
(Ontario) Question: How do you approach the issue of closing early but renting to seller for two months (something that would ensure they actually do leave on xx date)? Answer: …
Deceased without Relatives
Question: What happens to a property when someone dies without any relatives? Answer: There are relatives, you just don’t happen to know who they are. This type of an estate …
Commissions From Buyer on Defaulted Deal
Question: I was the Listing Agent and arranged for the sale of my client’s property in May with closing in late August. Buyer provided a $100k deposit. On the day …
Difference Between Two Real Estate Court Orders in Ontario
Question: An injunction is a court order stopping a party from continuing a breach. (In other wording, it is my understanding, “to do what they were supposed to do”) Specific …