real estate prices in Canada sustainable?
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Re: real estate prices in Canada sustainable?
I know. This is a car auction in progress. I'm dbd. 1966 Lotus Elan S2 for sale on BaT Auctions - ending May 12 (Lot #47,846) | Bring a Trailer
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Now here is a car
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#407
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I prefer the Safari, if you're going to go weird, go all the way. The Chapron is fabulous, of course, but that's serious money.
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If I had land and funds, I would collect vintage small aircraft, and have a giant aquarium built into my wall....
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Way too expensive to keep such things in airworthy condition...
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-Please tell me that is your registration number.
-Oh that? No it's the year of manufacture
- Gulp, are we quite close to landing?
- Not far
- Good.
#414
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My cousin has a Cessna, we were several thousand feet up when I noticed there was a little plaque that had 1947 engraved on it. Conversation went something like this
-Please tell me that is your registration number.
-Oh that? No it's the year of manufacture
- Gulp, are we quite close to landing?
- Not far
- Good.
-Please tell me that is your registration number.
-Oh that? No it's the year of manufacture
- Gulp, are we quite close to landing?
- Not far
- Good.
#415
Re: real estate prices in Canada sustainable?
My cousin has a Cessna, we were several thousand feet up when I noticed there was a little plaque that had 1947 engraved on it. Conversation went something like this
-Please tell me that is your registration number.
-Oh that? No it's the year of manufacture
- Gulp, are we quite close to landing?
- Not far
- Good.
-Please tell me that is your registration number.
-Oh that? No it's the year of manufacture
- Gulp, are we quite close to landing?
- Not far
- Good.
He later traded up to a share in a twin with retractable landing gear. One of the other shareholders landed it with the wheels up. That was an expensive mistake for all involved and the end of flying for my associate.
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#417
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I don't miss "pull out day" that's for sure. At the ABYC most boats are put on cradles and then brought out of the lake on a marine railway; a railway powered by people pulling on ropes. It's in mid-October so that's a long cold day. Of course, most any day in Ontario when you have to go outside seems long and cold.
#418
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One example as to some of the reasons renting is so unstable in parts of Canada.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/londo...lord-1.6017626
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/londo...lord-1.6017626
The problem for the woman in the article is that she can't afford market rent and so has to bottom feed. If she could afford the going rate then the landlord wouldn't have an incentive to winkle her. How much sympathy one should have somewhat depends on how she came to have no job and no savings, if she's truly long term disabled then the answer is either a rent subsidy tied to the disability allowance or government owned subsidized housing. Both of those options have their issues. The eviction method is a red herring though, the problem is poverty, not the mechanics of the landlord/tenant act.
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Re: real estate prices in Canada sustainable?
If you're older you either have decent savings or a good track record for a mortgage.
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Well, I don't doubt landlords in Canada are much like those in England where my brother worked for a time as a winkler, that is someone who winkles a tenant out of a property. A typical move there was to take the external door off the apartment so that the tenant couldn't leave for fear of their stuff being stolen. The tenant calls and complains, the landlord pretending to know nothing, brings a "new" door a couple of days later. The next week that door disappears. That said, wanting to move in a relative would be common where the relative has just arrived in the country and needs somewhere to stay. Many of the people I work with are immigrant landlords with a steady stream of inbound relatives.
The problem for the woman in the article is that she can't afford market rent and so has to bottom feed. If she could afford the going rate then the landlord wouldn't have an incentive to winkle her. How much sympathy one should have somewhat depends on how she came to have no job and no savings, if she's truly long term disabled then the answer is either a rent subsidy tied to the disability allowance or government owned subsidized housing. Both of those options have their issues. The eviction method is a red herring though, the problem is poverty, not the mechanics of the landlord/tenant act.
The problem for the woman in the article is that she can't afford market rent and so has to bottom feed. If she could afford the going rate then the landlord wouldn't have an incentive to winkle her. How much sympathy one should have somewhat depends on how she came to have no job and no savings, if she's truly long term disabled then the answer is either a rent subsidy tied to the disability allowance or government owned subsidized housing. Both of those options have their issues. The eviction method is a red herring though, the problem is poverty, not the mechanics of the landlord/tenant act.