Guides
Home Buyer’s Guide
For First Timers
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
The Ultimate Buyers Guide for First-Timers
Maintaining your
new home
Most builders in Ottawa provide their new home buyers with some form of new home care guide, whether a printout, pdf or special homeowners section on their website. Your new home features many systems and new technology, so it’s important to take the time to read over your homeowner’s guide and follow the recommended maintenance tips.
While homes today are built to minimize maintenance, no home is truly maintenance-free and most expensive home repairs can be avoided through inexpensive routine maintenance.
When you move in
Unless your home is one of the last in a community to be built, remember that there will likely be ongoing construction activity and you should expect some temporary disruption, dust, dirt and traffic as your builder works to complete the community.
It also means that some things may not yet be done, like the final layer of asphalt on roads, paving of your driveway, planting of trees and laying of sod.
Tip: Most builders ask you to refrain from landscaping, adding fences or putting up sheds for the first year. This is to let the ground properly settle and to ensure your warranty isn’t compromised in the first year.
Helpful Links
Minto’s Homeowner Move-in and Home Care Guide
Find your new home
Embarking on the new home buying journey is an exciting prospect. It’s also one that involves a lot of planning, analysis and consultation with the people who understand the process well and are there to support you. Take your time, go through all the steps carefully, and at the end you’ll have the home of your dreams.
Now you can get started on finding your new home today.
The information contained herein is for information purposes only. The information has been drawn from sources believed to be reliable. Graphs and charts are used for illustrative purposes only, and links to other websites are for convenience only. Information provided by Minto Communities Inc. and other sources is believed to be accurate and reliable at the time of publishing, but we cannot guarantee it is accurate, complete or current at all times. Information in this guide is for informational purposes only and is not intended to provide financial, legal, accounting or tax advice and should not be relied upon in that regard.
Minto Communities Inc. is not responsible in any manner for direct, indirect, special or consequential damages, however caused, arising out of your use of this information. No endorsement of any third party products, services or information is expressed or implied by any information, material or content referred to or included on, or linked from or to this guide. E & OE Apr 2021.
