Emma’s ex-husband gave their two twenty-something sons a $30,000 down payment. She thinks that was a big mistake. Four years ago, at the age of 24, Jonas Knight decided to buy his first house. Prices had been shooting up in his home town of Maple Ridge, a suburb of Vancouver, and he felt that if he didn’t get in the market soon, he never would. Problem was, like many young Canadians, he couldn’t... 

A leaky faucet or toilet is literally money going down the drain. Instead, spend a weekend (or a few hundred dollars for a plumber) and you’ll save a chunk of change each year. A tap that leaks only one drop of water per second adds up to 10,000 litres of water lost over the course of a year — that’s the equivalent of 70 baths! True: the cost isn’t going to break the bank — about $30... 

If there are mistakes on your driving record, your insurance premiums can soar. In the last five years, did you get three speeding tickets or four? If the Ministry of Transportation has the wrong answer in their files, it could be costing you big bucks on your auto insurance. Just like with your credit score, it pays to make sure the official record is correct. In this case, you can easily verify... 

Do you religiously follow your car’s service manual? Here’s some good news: sometimes you don’t have to. When you buy a new car, you’ll typically get two different service manuals, one from the dealer and one from the manufacturer. “The dealers make money on frequent visits, so their manual tries to get you to do as much maintenance as possible,” says Kirk Robinson of Robinson Automotive....