Серия "Reference Series"

Sell Your Home in Canada is an easy-to-understand and well-rounded look at selling a home in Canada, written by an experienced real estate professional. Whether the reader is a seasoned veteran selling a large house, or a novice selling a one-bedroom condo, this book will help them to sell their home with confidence and to get the best deal they can. This book provides information specific to the Canadian real estate market. It guides the home seller through the entire process, from seeking...

Renting Your Recreational Property for Profit contains everything you need to know to rent out your cottage/condo/holiday home professionally and profitably, with minimum stress. Author Heather Bayer guides you from the first tentative step of deciding to open up your vacation home guests, to what you will need to have in place before they arrive–and everything in between.

If you have the impression the world of work has changed, you are correct. This book, already used in many countries by guidance and employment counsellors, will show you how to approach the new realities of finding the work you want. The book is currently in use at over 200 colleges, universities, and secondary schools! The workplace is going through one of its most significant transitions in the past 100 years. The ’80s and ’90s saw dramatic downsizing, outsourcing, and telecommuting. Plenty...

Make the transition from earning a living to retirement living! Learn to live comfortably on what you already have. Create a sound financial plan, step by step. For retired people and for those who will retire soon. Retire successfully on what you already have! Living off savings is much different than living from paycheck to paycheck. It requires a different kind of budget and a different financial plan. Don’t be caught off guard when you make the switch, because financial...

Selling a home is harder than ever before. Do Your Own Home Staging demonstrates, step-by-step, exactly what you can do to sell your home faster and for a better price. Just as you would get dressed up for a job interview, your home needs to be presented in the best possible way to make the sale and get a great price. Do Your Own Home Staging shows you how using tested and often inexpensive techniques to make your home more appealing to buyers. With housing markets in the US and parts of Canada...

At least 40 percent of all new marriages today will end in divorce. The financial consequences of divorce can be traumatic. Many people who get divorced are left with little money, no income, and no credit rating. In some cases, if one partner looked after all the family’s finances, the other partner is left unprepared and overwhelmed by the financial consequences of divorce. Divorce Dollars is a complete guide to financial planning, demonstrating in a step-by-step manner how to overcome the...

The Cottage Rules sets out no-nonsense, easy-to-use guidelines for cottage owners who share ownership with others. It deals with everything from succession to laundry. The rules work to prevent conflicts, so that your relationship with your partners can be either as close or as distant as you desire. This book shows cottage owners how to manage their cottage like a business, which in turn prevents disputes and frees their time and energy so they can use it to enjoy the cottage. With four...

Find out how to avoid buying a home that’s too expensive, too small, or too big Understand how home-owners’ grants and tax exemptions can benefit you Whether a veteran or a novice, buying a home can be intimidating and worrisome. The Complete Home-Buyer’s Guide for Canadians is written by an experienced real estate agent who specializes in working with first-time home buyers. The book is written in a step-by-step manner, guiding the home buyer from obtaining financing to the final...

Comfortable Chaos is the first book that accepts the pace of modern living and helps readers come to their own life balance. This book recognizes that life today will never be free of stress and that everyone has his or her own level of tolerance for chaos.

It’s not easy to navigate government websites and forms to find the information needed to change a name. To complicate matters more, each province and territory has their own vital statistics agency rules and legal acts when it comes to formally or informally changing a name. While marriage and divorce allow for the informal changing of a surname, Changing Your Name in Canada provides readers with easy access to all the information they need to legally (formally) change their name, which...

Have you dreamed about owning the perfect weekend getaway? Are you thinking about buying a vacation home? A ski chalet? A hunting lodge? A waterfront cottage? Maybe now is the right time to turn that dream into reality. Buy & Sell Recreational Property in Canada is an easy-to-understand and well-rounded look at selling recreational property in Canada, written by an experienced real estate professional. Whether the readers are seasoned veterans buying a large chalet or novices selling a small...

Between each birth, the family undergoes a reshaping. The experiences of a first child or an only child are very different from those of a youngest child with three siblings. This book explains how birth order affects the type of person you are, the type of spouse you choose, and the type of employer or employee you make.