The Desk

A FOUNDRY COMPANY FIELD GUIDE · NO. 06 Possession day is the day the money moves, the title transfers and the keys change hands. Almost none ...

A FOUNDRY COMPANY FIELD GUIDE · NO. 05 An offer is a set of terms and price is one of them. The other four are the deposit, the conditions, ...

A FOUNDRY COMPANY FIELD GUIDE · NO. 04 A first viewing runs about fifteen minutes and the kitchen takes the greater part of it. Four habits ...

A FOUNDRY COMPANY FIELD GUIDE · NO. 03 Go back after dark. A house shown at two in the afternoon on a Saturday is a house at its easiest hour, ...

A FOUNDRY COMPANY FIELD GUIDE · NO. 02 Real estate listings run on a small vocabulary of words that have drifted from their dictionary ...

A FOUNDRY COMPANY FIELD GUIDE · NO. 01 Buying a first home in Calgary runs in six stages. The decision, the financing, the search, the offer, ...

The Chapters The listing photographs get taken on a Tuesday morning, and by then the decisions the sale turns on have already been made. Which room ...

The Chapters The first week is a stack of small errands nobody put on the list. A phone with no local number in it. A fridge with condiments and ...

The Chapters Two of the four bedrooms have been shut since the spring. The lawnmower gets serviced every May for a lawn that takes eleven minutes. ...

The Chapters Pencil marks up the door frame of the back bedroom, four of them now, the highest one recent. A folded stroller against the wall where ...

The Chapters A lawyer's office on a Friday afternoon. Two chairs, a stack of paper with coloured tabs down the edge, a jug of water nobody touches, ...

The Beat A development permit notice goes up on a corner lot. By the next afternoon somebody has photographed it and put it in the community group, ...

The Beat The north channel of the Bow River closed this summer, the narrow arm running between the Bridgeland bank and St. Patrick's Island. The main ...

The Beat A sprinkler starts at ten past seven on a Thursday evening and throws water over the grass and half the sidewalk. Three doors down the same ...

The Beat The cones went down along both curbs of 8 Street SW in August, between 4 Avenue and 12 Avenue. They are not temporary. The City's own word ...

The Beat The building at 221 Evanston Drive NW was turned over to the Calgary Board of Education on March 18, and the office inside it reopens on ...

The Atlas Queens Park Village is a community with one address. The City's assessment roll carries a single residential parcel inside its boundary, an ...