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Old Jan 3rd 2020 | 7:05 pm
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Pretty much the only real benefit to renting....ha ha


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That's good JS. One of the benefits of renting we were talking about
 
Old Jan 3rd 2020 | 10:43 pm
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Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
Pretty much, Oink.
With all that's happening, I think I might treat me and HID to a takeaway tonight.
 
Old Jan 3rd 2020 | 10:51 pm
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Originally Posted by Oink
With all that's happening, I think I might treat me and HID to a takeaway tonight.
I think that's a most excellent idea
 
Old Jan 4th 2020 | 12:30 am
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With all that's happening, I think I might treat me and HID to a takeaway tonight.
Carrot juice and knitted yogurt?
 
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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.

 
Old Jan 5th 2020 | 1:35 pm
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
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.
A very fine mystery JS! I hope the owner's found.
 
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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

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Old Jan 6th 2020 | 7:33 am
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
Renting isn't looking good across Canada.
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.
 
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Originally Posted by 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.
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.

 
Old Jan 6th 2020 | 3:38 pm
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Apparently, this is what English sounds like to non English speakers

 
Old Jan 6th 2020 | 6:54 pm
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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.
 
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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......
 
Old Jan 7th 2020 | 9:20 am
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
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......
Think she's protecting you? The only wiener dog I ran into regularly was very protective of his mistress.
 
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Think she's protecting you? The only wiener dog I ran into regularly was very protective of his mistress.
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.
 
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This is a landlord who seems to care about people.

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

 


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