Thinking of DIY? Make Sure You Consider these Tips
With the recent home renovation tax credit, many people are undertaking renovations of their homes. In some cases, this is encouraging people who have never renovated their homes to take the plunge, and to take the plunge by themselves.
But sometimes taking the plunge is something new renovaters should not do by themselves. Although doing it [...]
Understanding Home Prices: Renovations and Upgrades
A key factor to the price of a home is the renovations and upgrades done to it, especially if this is an older home we are talking about.
With an older home, there might be the need to have some work done to keep it safe, modern and comfortable. With that said, the current owners might [...]
Buyers Beware Part 2
Continuing from yesterday, we will get into another warning that buyers must know before they decide to purchase a home.
Today’s warning will be on grow op houses.
As you might already know, a grow op house is a house that people use to grow marijuana. The condition of a house after being used for a grow [...]
British Columbia Partnership for Social Housing Renovations
The Government of Canada and Government of British Columbia have announced on October 14th 101 renovation and retrofit projects totalling $177 million. This is cost shared under the Housing Renovation Partnership, a jointly funded program to renovate and retrofit social housing over the next two years; this will be creating an estimated 1,130 jobs.
Federal funding [...]
Northern Housing Building Demonstration Pushed Forward By Canada’s Economic Action Plan
The Nunavut Housing Corporation has learnt how to assemble pre-built housing units before the expected delivery to the Northern territory’s communities in 2010.
Funding for this new housing is part of a combined federal-territorial investment of $112 million over a span of two years, which is under Canada’s Economic Action Plan which is providing a onetime [...]
Manitoba Recreational Infrastructure Receives Funding
With funding from the Federal, Provincial and Municipal levels of Government, residents of Manitoba will soon have nine new recreational infrastructure projects.
On September 21st, it was announced that funding for these new recreational projects will create jobs in Winnipeg and several rural Manitoba communities.
The investments are part of Canada’s Economic Action Plan, and it will [...]
August 2009 Moose Jaw Building Permit’s Above Previous Year
Among the new building permits issued in August, one has allowed Dominion Construction to conduct $1.56 million in renovations to the Moose Jaw Union Hospital intensive care unit.
This was only one of the 32 building permits issued by city hall last month, for a construction totalling approximately $6.95 million. In August 2008, the city had [...]



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