Household Safety Blanket

Home Warranty Included program an Ottawa First

 OTTAWA _ Bryon Bertrim is unfurling a year-long security blanket over owner occupied homes and condos.

For the first time the Ottawa realtor is offering a comprehensive Home Warranty Included package on any age, style or size of living space.

“Most people wouldn’t buy a $10,000 used car without a warranty, but we would buy a $400,000 home without one.” said Bertrim, a sales representative with Keller Williams Ottawa Realty.*

“That has changed for my clients.”

The 12-month warranty covers up to $15,000 in unplanned repairs or replacements of built-in electrical, plumbing, and appliances like fridges, stoves, washing machines, air conditioners and furnaces.

“This is the first program that delivers some level of certainty for both buyers and sellers,” Bertrim said. “It actually makes my job easier.”

Home warranty programs, according to Bertrim, are a staple in the US housing market and typically gain sellers a quicker deal at a higher sale price.

“Nobody in this marketplace has ever seen anything like this,” said Bertrim. “There is a real live 1-800 number with a real live person manning the phone 7/24/365. I am just the point person who is bringing this to the real estate space.”

The Home Warranty Included program includes a zero deductable.

“As a home inspector you often have no way of knowing when items, and big-ticket items, are going to die,” said Larry Widdifield of Ottawa, a home inspector and residential eco-energy advisor. “This program takes care of that.”

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 “This offer from Bryon provides me complete peace of mind,” said Sarwar Kazi, a client home seller. “And it gives any other people in the future a brand new idea.”

 Bryon Bertrim / Bertrim.com / 613.591.9990 *  Brokerage Independently owned and operated

See details http://www.bertrim.com/home-warranty-included

*This is a home warranty not home insurance

** Home warranty is included at no additional charge as part of our Flex listing program for home sellers. And included in any home purchase for buyers.

Members of the Ottawa Real Estate Board sold 1,568 residential properties in April through the Board’s Multiple Listing Service® system, compared with 1,530 in April 2011, an increase of 2.5 per cent.
April’s sales included 300 in the condominium property class, and 1,268 in the residential property class. The condominium property class includes any property, regardless of style (i.e. detached, semi-detached, apartment, stacked etc.), which is registered as a condominium, as well as properties which are co-operatives, life leases and timeshares. The residential property class includes all other residential properties.
“Sales in April indicate a steady Ottawa market as we sail through spring,” remarks Ansel Clarke, President of the Ottawa Real Estate Board. “Re-sale housing inventory is up by 6.9 per cent since last year, and interest rates continue to be low, indicating that Ottawa remains in a healthy, stable market.”
The average sale price of residential properties, including condominiums, sold in April in the Ottawa area was $364,077, an increase of 3.7 per cent over April 2011. The average sale price for a condominium-class property was $272,851, an increase of 6.7 per cent over April 2011. The average sale price of a residential-class property was $385,660, an increase of 2.6 per cent over April 2011. The Board cautions that average sale price information can be useful in establishing trends over time but should not be used as an indicator that specific properties have increased or decreased in value. The average sale price is calculated based on the total dollar volume of all properties sold.

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1 Just how damn easy it was to set up

2. No more @gmail.com I am forever more bryon@bertrim.com everywhere on all devices. I am part of the cloud baby

3. It still has desktop clients that allows you to sync to all your Ms Office tools including Outlook.  Bye Bye Outlook Exchange server.

4 Yea I know I said 3, this one is a bonus . Google Drive. It’s a virtual drive on your computer but it’s on Google’s cloud and its better then Dropbox and Sugar sync

Check out this Faq on Google Apps from Cnet

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57420402-93/the-google-drive-faq/

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Of those sales, 253 were condominiums while 809 were Freehold residential properties. Condos include any property, regardless of style (i.e. detached, semi-detached, apartment, stacked etc.), which is registered as a condominium, as well as properties, which are co-operatives, life leases and timeshares. Freehold includes all other residential properties.

“Condos were the main driver of resale home sales in October, with condo sales up 14.5 per cent from the same month in 2010, whereas residential property sales numbers were near-identical to last year’s,” said Ottawa Real Estate Board President Joanne Tibbles. “We’ve been hearing a lot about the rising popularity of condos in Ottawa and these numbers certainly support that, but it’s just one piece of our steady resale market, with sales very near the five-year average for October. Also, listing inventory and days on market are both up slightly as we move towards the end of the year,” she added.

The average sale price of residential properties, including condominiums, sold in October in the Ottawa area was $337,797, an increase of 2 per cent over October 2010. The average sale price for a condominium was $259,316, a decrease of 1.5 per cent over October 2010. The average sale price of a Freehold residential property was $362,341, an increase of 3.7 per cent over October 2010.