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The Home Buyer’s Playbook

What it costs. How offers work. What to sign. Everything about buying a home in the GTA, in plain English. In about ten minutes. No fluff, no jargon, no 80-page brokerage manual.

Free. Takes about 30 seconds. Read it in about ten minutes.

9 pages Cover of The Home Buyer's Playbook — a free guide from Better Properties Real Estate Group
What’s inside

Everything you’re afraid to ask, answered.

Buying a home in the GTA comes down to knowing your numbers first, viewing homes with a critical eye, and negotiating from comparable sales, not the asking price. Get pre-approved before you fall for a house, learn what every form means before you sign it, and budget for closing costs like land transfer tax on top of the price. The full playbook covers all of it in about ten minutes.

01

The 5-step game plan

From first thought to getting the keys. The whole buying process on one page, in order.

02

Know your numbers

Pre-approval, deposits, and what you can actually afford. Before you fall for a house.

03

House-hunting, decoded

How to view homes like a pro, what to look past, and what should stop you cold.

04

Offers, explained

Price, conditions, closings, competing offers. How the negotiation actually works.

05

The closing-cost cheat sheet

Land transfer taxes, legal fees, and every other cost. With real GTA numbers.

06

Paperwork in plain English

Every form you’ll sign, translated from legalese. Plus a pre-closing checklist.

Written by Jim Emilson, Better Properties Real Estate Group at Royal LePage Signature Realty. After years of guiding buyers across Toronto. Including plenty of first-timers. Jim distilled the questions he answers every week into this short playbook. If you want a human in your corner when you buy, he’s one message away.

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