What Alberta Land Sellers Say About Us

My brother and I inherited Dad’s quarter near Camrose and neither of us farms. We’d been paying the taxes on it for six years out of pure guilt. These folks pulled the title, explained the surface lease on it in plain English, and had an offer to us inside three days. Closed through a lawyer in Camrose about a month later. Honestly the easiest part of settling the whole estate.

Sold them a teardown lot in Bowness that had been rented as parking for years. Fair number, quick close, zero drama. Wish I’d done it two tax bills ago.

Mostly a very good experience. We sold an acreage off Highway 779 near Stony Plain after moving to Kelowna. The offer came fast and the price was reasonable, but there was a mix-up on the closing date — their lawyer needed an extra week to sort out an old caveat from the previous owner. To their credit they kept us posted the whole time and covered the extra legal cost without us asking. Would still recommend, just build in a bit of buffer if your title has history on it.

I listed 80 acres near High River with a realtor for over a year. Two lowball offers, both fell apart on financing. Land Buyers Canada gave me a written cash offer that was actually close to what the conditional offers had been, except theirs was firm. No commission came off the top either, which is what really made the difference. Done and money in the bank in 19 days.

Quick and straightforward. They bought our lake lot at Cold Lake that we hadn’t used since the kids grew up. Everything handled by the lawyers, we never left Edmonton.

I was two years behind on property taxes on a lot in Medicine Hat and the county letters were getting scary. I figured that meant I couldn’t sell. They explained the arrears just get paid out of the sale money at closing, and that’s exactly how it went. No lectures, no judgment. Walked away with cash and a clean slate. Can’t say enough about how decent they were to deal with.

We had five acres outside Sylvan Lake that we bought to build on and never did. One phone call, a fair number, and the lawyers handled the rest. Sold it without ever driving down from Fort St. John.

Dad’s old quarter east of Grande Prairie sat rented out for years and the family finally wanted it settled. They were patient with four siblings asking questions, and the money landed exactly when they said it would.