Hanif Shivji
Royal Pacific Realty Ltd.
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How do you want prospective buyers to feel when they visit your home? …you want them to feel welcomed…create that with a good to great first impression. Some thoughts:
 
Personal Items. 
Remove if you can as many personal items as possible especially at eye level. Pictures (of your family, especially young kids) , wall or table  decoration, , bathroom and kitchen items on the counter.  
 
The idea is to create space(s) to help buyers visualize they are living there and for you to feel good to declutter and not have a stranger figure out what you like or who your kids are.
 
Lighting.
Try to make the lighting in your home or in the  rooms pleasant and enough/sufficient. Change the light bulbs and have the light coming in from the windows (blinds and curtains are left open). 
 
There is a rule of three. Have if you can three sources of light: lamps, desk lamps even.
 
Entrance/Foyer.
 
First impression is just outside and inside the home, the foyer. Tidy, clean (no spider webs) gets buyers excited and the olfactory sense is feeling great. The eyes are seeing abundance .
And the buyer is feeling good. Have if you can some space for jackets or footwear for the buyers to take off and roam around. More time
they spend in your home the better.
 
Entrances to the rooms.
Try not have the doors have personal stuff on them . Have the doors open so that the buyer can see the space and the cleanliness . If you can clean or have the closets organized.
Buyers would like to explore and see the rooms or home would work for their family.
 
Hence , creating a blank canvas or slate will assist the buyer to visualize them living there.
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Common property must be maintained and repaired by the strata corporation, and a strata corporation is not permitted to make an owner responsible for common property in a bylaw. Limited common property is common property that is designated for the exclusive use of one or more strata lots, and a strata corporation may adopt a bylaw that makes an owner responsible for broader maintenance of limited common property.

The schedule of standard bylaws apply to all strata corporations, unless amended, and set out the following conditions: Bylaw 2: An owner who has the use of limited common property must repair and maintain it, except for repair and maintenance that is the responsibility of the strata corporation under these bylaws. Bylaw 8: The Strata Corporation must repair and maintain limited common property, but the duty to repair and maintain it is restricted to repair and maintenance that in the ordinary course of events occurs less often than once a year.

Simply put, under the Standard Bylaws, owners are responsible for annual custodial maintenance of limited common property such as sweeping, clearing drains, cobwebs, snow removal. Everything else is the responsibility of the strata corporation. If your strata corporation is subject to the standard bylaws only, the damages of strata corporation common and limited common property caused by ground flooding or freezing temperatures in winter or simply scheduled renewals and upgrades are all the responsibility of the strata

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