I have been very honoured to be guest blogging at www.livehigh.com. After a series a while back on closing costs (you can read those posts here and here), they invited me to guest blog this week on additional considerations for non-resident buyers and sellers. You can...
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How much is your estate plan worth?
I subscribe to Groupon and WagJag for group buying deals. I’ve gotten some good ones – detailing for my car, gift certificates to some of my favourite restaurants, even video-to-DVD transfer so I can finally watch myself learn how to scuba dive. However, I was more...
Wouldn’t it be nice…
Many of us have seen the commercial: happy elderly people paying for renovations, trips and university education for their grandchildren through a reverse mortgage. I came across this excellent post from the Retire Happy blog, which details the pros and cons of a...
Human art
I have blogged before on various ways you can have your body dealt with after death. Here’s a new one: mixed with pigments and turned into art. Wayne Gilbert is an artist who took abandoned cremains and used them to create paintings. The San Antonio Current published...
The ultimate downsize
How far would you go to be mortgage-free? Or maybe a better way to say it would be, how small would you go? I have recently discovered the blog Hooked on Houses. Julia writes about all things house-related, from unusual listing pictures to movie houses to random house...
Court-ordered life?
A few weeks ago, I blogged about Hassan Rasouli, a mechanical engineer in Toronto who fell into a coma after contracting bacterial meningitis during surgery to remove a brain tumour. His wife, Parichehr Salasel, ended up in a long dispute with his doctors, who wanted...
The accidental American
There are many people living in Canada with dual Canadian-American citizenship. In Canada, taxation is based on residency: if you live here, we want your money. In the US, taxation is based on citizenship: if you’re American, they want your money, regardless of...
Let the seller beware?
The Ontario Court of Appeal released a decision a few weeks ago that could have far-reaching effects for home sellers and realtors in Ontario. The decision, Krawchuk v. Scherbak, involved a first-time buyer who purchased a home in Sudbury. The sellers filled out an...
Court-ordered death
In October 2010, Hassan Rasouli, a mechanical engineer living in Toronto, fell into a coma after contracting bacterial meningitis during surgery to remove a brain tumour. His doctors came to the conclusion that he was in a persistent vegetative state, and recommended...
Everything old should maybe not be new again
I read this article from the Daily Mail a little while ago, about Jeff Conaway, who played Kenickie in Grease. Jeff was found in his home in early May in a coma brought on by a suspected drug overdose. Doctors had informed his family that he had suffered brain death...