by Jenn Slater | Aug 29, 2016 | Blog, Homeownership, Lists
If the great BC power outage of 2015 taught us anything, it was that anything can happen at any time. Final tallies estimate power was lost to over 500,000 homes and businesses across BC, with some outages lasting several days. This had a lot of people taking a good...
by Jenn Slater | Aug 24, 2016 | Blog, Finance, Guest Post
By Sandi Martin of Spring Personal Finance.The point: it doesn’t matter what method you use to pay off debt, or if you use any method at all. What matters is that you stop creating new debt.It’s out there: the mathematically precise, strictly rational formula for...
by Jenn Slater | Aug 18, 2016 | Blog
For those of us who live in the suburbs or within the city, the idea of going off the grid, while a nice concept, feels completely unattainable. This is for a variety of reasons including: space limitations, cost, municipal bylaws, and time restrictions. “We certainly...
by Jenn Slater | Aug 12, 2016 | Blog, Mortgage
Given the current economic environment in Canada, with record levels of household indebtedness and growing risks and vulnerabilities in some housing markets, OSFI’s supervisory scrutiny in the area of mortgage underwriting will continue.” This was included in...
by Jenn Slater | Aug 9, 2016 | Blog, Homeownership
You’re on “the grid”Every few weeks, we open our mailboxes (or our email inboxes) with bated breath. Inevitably, we find another heap of utility bills, waiting to separate us from our hard earned dollars. This is not unusual; this is simply part of...
