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        <description>Get the latest scoop on Calgary real estate happenings and market info. This is a great place to ask questions or offer your comments to other home buyers and sellers.</description>
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            <author>homes@joesamson.com (Joe Samson &amp; Associates)</author>
            <title>Same Day Closings</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
Here is a very usueful article that I recently came across in AREA's newsletter dealing with coinciding possession days:


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In assisting buyers with their home closing needs, we often encounter circumstances where the possession day on a buyer&rsquo;s new home purchase is the same as the closing date on their existing house sale. In some cases, both transactions are scheduled to close on a weekend or a holiday. Unfortunately, many of these buyers are ill prepared by their representati... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:23:04 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>homes@joesamson.com (Joe Samson &amp; Associates)</author>
            <title>What is Title Insurance?</title>
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Title insurance did not appear in Canada until the early 1990s. Title insurance may protect the insurer for certain known defects and real estate fraud, and quicken the closing rocess by allowing transactions to close without confirmation of registration of the new ownership and mortgage. It also provides assurance that any improvements on the land comply with applicable zoning bylaws and that there are no encroachments on the lands or on adjoining lands. If there are encroachments, the insuran... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:30:07 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>homes@joesamson.com (Joe Samson &amp; Associates)</author>
            <title>Building Location Certificate?</title>
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Question: When I moved into my house 25 years ago, I received a Building Location Certificate. How is this different from the survey my neighbour just got?


Reply: A Building Location Certificate was a type of survey performed by land surveyors for mortgage purposes until 1987. It was prepared for different purposes and to different standards than applicable today. Typically, a Building Location Certificate would include a
note stating, &ldquo;This plan is for the protection of the mortgage ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:27:50 -0600</pubDate>
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