14Apr 2014 12 Comments

Investing in an income suite: Q&A with HGTV’s Lisa Colalillo

Categories: Real Estate - Tags: advice, basement, Critical Listing, HGTV, income suite, investment, landlords, Q&A

If you’ve been following our blog you already know that we’re huge HGTV fans. Remember our PARA Blog Crew submission video?? Yea….it’s a problem. On any given day you can pretty much guarantee there’s an episode of one of HGTV Canada’s many awesome shows providing the soundtrack to our household.

One show in particular that we’ve been enjoying in this season’s lineup is Critical Listing. If you’re not familiar with the show, you really should get familiar! Read more

16Aug 2013 1 Comment

The basement continued: The quest for more headroom

Categories: Construction - Tags: apartment, basement, bench-footing, ceiling height, income property, lowering, underpinning

Things are moving along in the basement. We decided to use a bench-footing technique to gain more headroom. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, “bench-footing” is similar to “underpinning” which are both basically just fancy pants construction words for the process of lowering the basement floor. Read more

08Aug 2013 3 Comments

Switching focus: Planning the basement

Categories: Construction - Tags: basement, income property

In our last post I mentioned that we’ve been biding our time until the windows arrive. As you know, up until now, we’ve primarily been focusing our construction efforts on the main living space of the house. But now that we’ve got a little time to burn, we’re switching our focus to the basement. Read more

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Investing in an income suite: Q&A with HGTV’s Lisa Colalillo

The basement continued: The quest for more headroom

Switching focus: Planning the basement

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