Straight jacket seems fitting, no?Like molten lava engulfs the country side we are swept under the warmth of the sun. With aimless abandon we drive through the streets just enjoying the happy brightness. The darkness of winter oozes from our souls and our skin is once again kissed by the glory that is the sun.
We Canadians appreciate our summers more than most. The contrast allows for it. It also makes us do weird things. Crazy things like buy houses. That Sunday drive so epically described above was mine some 9 years ago. The good weather had taken us, to of all places, a sales office for a builder. As young renters we had no immediate plans for a house. "Can't hurt to look and see what's out there"
When we signed the papers we were expecting full well to be denied from the bank so no big deal. Two young newlyweds with not much in the way of savings, what were the chances. "We were approved???"
Stats show that as we work our way from winter through spring and into the summer more people buy homes. It is a cyclical sales pattern that can not be denied and is less to do with the market and more to do with the psyche of the Canadian home buyer. Knowing what the property looks like when you are spending time outdoors helps but so does the fact that it is no longer dark when you leave for work and when you get home!
It does not take a pitch from a pushy agent to buy a house, just a buyer out for a Sunday drive with not much more than a dream.
The point is if you are looking at selling your home and wait until May you are missing out on the people that are out and about at the first eruption of sunlight. We have already seen it starting. The warm spell in February that saw temps in the high teens had door bells ringing and emails chiming. People were out.
Knowing someone is at home riffling through their files for their tax assessment so they can buy your house is a neat feeling. Almost as neat as rifling through your files for your tax assessment so you can buy THAT house.
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