scrubbedexpat091

Pretty much the only real benefit to renting....ha ha

Oink

With all that's happening, I think I might treat me and HID to a takeaway tonight.

spouse of scouse

I think that's a most excellent idea

BristolUK

Carrot juice and knitted yogurt?

scrubbedexpat091

Anyone know this guy?

https://imgur.com/a/gWJAszX

https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comm...while_surfing/

Seems someone in Australia found a Go Pro in the ocean while fishing, and the SD card survived and he was able to recover the data and is now looking for the owner who they believe is Canadian.The person who found the camera and recovered the data believes it was lost sometime between 2010 and 2012 in Australia.

spouse of scouse

A very fine mystery JS! I hope the owner's found.

scrubbedexpat091

Renting isn't looking good across Canada.

https://www.reminetwork.com/articles...-cent-in-2020/

Does make one wonder if this man did have a GP if his cancer would have been diagnosed earlier or if further testing would have been done or a specialist referral.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north...ukon-1.5405718

BristolUK

I was reading just a couple of days ago that the vacancy rate here is 2 point something % - rather than the 10 something when it started to get problematic for me. If I could have held on another 3 years I might not have needed to accept such a low sale.

scrubbedexpat091

My mother in law owned a condo in Squamish, after having to take a loan out to cover a special assessment $50,000 she couldn't at the time rent it for enough to cover the mortgage + special assessment loan, so she sold it and barely got enough to cover the loans, if she had been able to hold on 2 more years (obviously nobody knew at the time how hot the market would become) the value of the condo would have doubled, and rent more than triple, but at the time she didn't know things were going to shoot up value and rent wise.

Danny B

Apparently, this is what English sounds like to non English speakers

scrubbedexpat091

Another condo strata facing huge increase in their insurance, seems there are less underwriters willing to share the risk so premiums are increasing.

The strata in the article paid $66,000 in premiums in 2019, for 2020 the premiums increased to $588,000 but looks like the strata chose to have less insurance coverage and reduced their premium to $244,000 bet they are under-insured now.

Seems the strata will have to do a special levy and increase strata fees, the building is apparently on 1 year old.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6374159/a...FGIiGX8e7Y5PSQ

I don't think I would buy a condo with all these stories out there.

scrubbedexpat091

Washer is being delivered and installed at the moment, oh boy does the dog not like strangers in the apartment, she is not a happy camper......

caretaker

Think she's protecting you? The only wiener dog I ran into regularly was very protective of his mistress.

scrubbedexpat091

Yeah she is being protective, its their nature they don't like strangers for the most part and takes them time to build trust with people they don't know, they tend to be as a breed suspicious of those they don't know and highly protective over their family.

scrubbedexpat091

This is a landlord who seems to care about people.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...980s-1.5408903