Creating curb appeal!



They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. But when it comes to houses, the exterior can be just as important as the interior if selling or buying.
When selling, it is the outside, or the home’s curb appeal that often determines whether the inside is ever seen. How a house 'shows’ from the street can tell a potential buyer a lot about what it may be like inside. Even if the inside is the sparkling, charming, structurally sound dream home they’ve been searching for, a buyer is not going to forget a cracked driveway, fallen shutters, and overgrown grass and flower beds.
The Bank of Canada has announced that its target for the overnight rate will remain at 0.25 per cent and has further reiterated its commitment to hold the overnight rate at this level until the end of the second quarter of 2010.