According to a latest poll commissioned by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) and conducted by Nielson, four out of 10 Canadian homeowners have… Read More
Do you hesitate to experiment with bold colours for walls and furnishings? Bright hues can raise a room’s energy levels and affect your mood. Here’s… Read More
People have a variety of reasons for choosing to renovate their homes, ranging from saving energy to making more room and even to simply breathe… Read More
Alair Homes Nanaimo is currently working on a project unlike anything else in Nanaimo. It’s simply called SquareOne, and with it brings new opportunity to… Read More
The average amount of time that most people stay in a house is five years. Most people start with one home, and they change residences… Read More
What is HRV and Why Install One? What is a HRV? Heat Recovery Ventilation system for your home. Which moves stale air from inside your… Read More
When Rick and Anu Mayer starting building their dream home back in 2011 they were excited and looking forward to getting finished up and moving in. Then to their horror just a few weeks before being finished they realized that the contractor and the project engineer had not followed the drawings, not followed the building code, and because the house was a poured ICF (Insulated Concrete Form), it could not be fixed.
Alair Homes today announced a custom home especially designed and built to be unveiled and auctioned off for charity at the 2013 IDSwest Show. This cutting-edge H&L Laneway Home, built by the Alair Homes Vancouver team, was designed with a living small and modern motif, pushing the boundaries of minimal footprint home building.
Canada is one of the most beautiful places in the world to live. However no place is perfect. On the West Coast for example we live on the “Ring of Fire “, comprised of basically all of the land surrounding the Pacific Ocean. This so-called ring is extremely prone to earth quakes. These quakes can be so small that they cause little to no damage at all or they can get big enough to cause serious damage – like we saw in the 1989 San Francisco earthquake or the 2011 Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami.
Alair Homes prides itself on living up to certain standards in both our construction projects and in the way we treat our Suppliers, Sub-Trades and Clients. So often in competitive sports or business you hear stories about the negative side of competition/business, like hockey parents fighting in the stands at Tyke games or companies not looking after its employees after 25 years of service. The Motocross community from our perspective has been a great fit with our values.
As most of us already know the majority of Millionaires and even more of the Billionaires in the world today have made their fortune through real estate. I read a very interesting article last week written after the author had interviewed the investment guru Warren Buffett. In the article Mr. Buffett noted that the very best investment he could make in North America today would be residential real estate. He stated that he would purchase a couple single-family residences in the one hundred to three hundred thousand range, mortgage them at today’s very low mortgage rates and then rent them all out. The rent being paid more than covers the mortgage, taxes, maintenance and miscellaneous costs. As well, each and every month that goes by the equity in each investment property grows as the tenants continue to pay down the outstanding mortgage.
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