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Forum: Canada
Oct 16th 2008, 1:52 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,081
Posted By blimey

Re: Just arrived in Toronto from UK!

welcome to Toronto!

Roy Boyce from Royal LePage was our real estate agent when we arrived and found us a great place to rent and then negotiated a good deal on our purchase later on. We thought...
Forum: Canada
Aug 27th 2008, 4:37 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,189
Posted By blimey

Re: Toronto - I have arrived! Woo hoo!!!!

oh you bought a place - sorry, thought you'd rented and it's really hard to rent in that area from afar. my fault for assuming :p
Forum: Canada
Aug 26th 2008, 11:48 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,189
Posted By blimey

Re: Toronto - I have arrived! Woo hoo!!!!

Welcome to T.O.! We lived downtown when we first arrived and also loved the city views. How did you manage to score a place with a view of High Park?! Begging? Pleading? Fairy Godmother?

I...
Forum: Canada
Aug 2nd 2008, 12:56 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,360
Posted By blimey

Re: Hi from Oakville

Hi - when we moved to Toronto we also worked with a terrific agent - Roy Boyce also at Royal LePage if I remember correctly. He's an expat who's been here a long time and knows the city and...
Forum: Canada
Jun 16th 2008, 6:53 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 2,749
Posted By blimey

Re: buying a house in Oakville

haven't posted in a while but seeing as we found having our own agent a big help, thought I would reply here.

I can't see the downside of having a buyer's agent myself, unless they're connected...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 10th 2008, 3:28 pm
Replies: 45
Views: 2,742
Posted By blimey

Re: Different forms of anaesthetic.

Hi - Mrs. Blimey again,

To quickly reply to the into the CSF/epidural space issue, these two options are sufficiently similar to one another and dissimilar to a GA that the difference between them...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 3rd 2008, 4:18 pm
Replies: 45
Views: 2,742
Posted By blimey

Re: Different forms of anaesthetic.

Mrs Blimey (doctor) writing:

spinal and epidural are the same thing, "spinal" being the lay-term.

any anaesthetic injected directly into the spinal cord (which is not what happens in an...
Forum: Canada
Apr 3rd 2008, 4:05 pm
Replies: 61
Views: 3,286
Posted By blimey

Re: Buy or rent?

We also rented for the first while before buying so we could check out the area etc. It wasn't a particularly stunning financial decision since our rent was quite high and given current mortgage...
Forum: Canada
Apr 2nd 2008, 6:11 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 1,575
Posted By blimey

Re: How Did You Arrange A Property For When You Landed ?????

yes - used offer of employment letter, credit letter from bank (but I think you can get this online? we didn't, at any rate) and reference letter from last job in the UK.

once the landlords met...
Forum: Canada
Apr 2nd 2008, 5:59 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 1,575
Posted By blimey

Re: How Did You Arrange A Property For When You Landed ?????

I can only tell you what we did -

we got in touch with an agent ahead of time and decided to rent for 6-12 mos before buying (turned out it was 8!).

we booked into a hotel for a week and saw a...
Forum: Canada
Apr 2nd 2008, 5:14 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,334
Posted By blimey

Re: Renting fun and games

When is renting in the GTA easy?

When your budget isn't too tight (in the GTA this means at least $1200/mo),
when you have lots of time to look around,
when the landlord can meet you and see...
Forum: Canada
Mar 30th 2008, 2:48 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 644
Posted By blimey

Re: Anyone in Georgetown, Ontario

our realtor took us to many different communities to look at the place, what our money would buy there etc..before deciding where to buy, and my recollection of georgetown was that it was cute in...
Forum: Canada
Mar 29th 2008, 3:47 am
Replies: 13
Views: 1,195
Posted By blimey

Re: some advise please

after tax etc the OP is probably looking at more like $3100/month - if half of that goes in rent it doesn't leave much for food/clothes/gas/life etc for 4 adults - you'll definitely want that second...
Forum: Canada
Mar 28th 2008, 6:18 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 648
Posted By blimey

Re: IT geek looking to make the move.

kanata's well established....where's that? I think you must mean Canada's well established :rofl::rofl:
Forum: Canada
Mar 25th 2008, 11:27 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 534
Posted By blimey

Re: Need a real estate agent in Toronto - any suggestions?

we had a fab agent - friendly, knowledgeable and really good negotiator.

will PM (private message) you his details.
Forum: Canada
Mar 25th 2008, 1:59 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 1,987
Posted By blimey

Re: Buying Property

We looked at a few FSBO sites and places before deciding to go with a realtor. It frustrated the heck out of us - like Zap said, places were sold (by a realtor usually), now on the mls or the owner...
Forum: Canada
Mar 25th 2008, 12:55 am
Replies: 157
Views: 9,320
Posted By blimey

Re: Canada - Would It Suit Us?

You may want to check out a recent thread about safety in toronto, where many if not all said they leave their doors unlocked at times and feel perfectly safe at night. All big cities have gangs -...
Forum: Canada
Mar 25th 2008, 12:30 am
Replies: 157
Views: 9,320
Posted By blimey

Re: Canada - Would It Suit Us?

I must say I thought about it (replying) and then thought better of it...:p
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 23rd 2008, 6:02 pm
Replies: 68
Views: 4,462
Posted By blimey

Re: Shocked at Canadian Realtor fees!

southerner yes, effete....depends on the mood you caught him in.

his family had an estate in italy that we used to visit in the summers...I think he picked it up there!
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 23rd 2008, 2:42 pm
Replies: 68
Views: 4,462
Posted By blimey

Re: Shocked at Canadian Realtor fees!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

I have to agree. It read like scaremongering to me too.
My dad used to say that free advice is worth what it costs :p

But then, he also wore socks with sandals.
Forum: Canada
Mar 13th 2008, 7:39 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 762
Posted By blimey

Re: Mississauga

"rental agencies" aren't very popular here in toronto, from our experience in looking, anyway. There are some sites like viewit.ca but we found those were mainly tower-block kinds of places (I hear...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 12th 2008, 9:11 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 347
Posted By blimey

Re: Pompey for the cup!

seeing them in the short sleeves on a sunny green pitch is too much to bear - makes one want to head (back) to the bar!
Forum: Canada
Mar 12th 2008, 5:44 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 2,021
Posted By blimey

Re: How to choose your Real Estate Agent?

this thread is overlapping with the buyer-agent thread also active in this forum - one of the realtors has posted a (sort of) response to your question.

maybe he/she was hedging their bets that it...
Forum: Canada
Mar 12th 2008, 5:31 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 1,038
Posted By blimey

Re: another $3,000 saved!

well, having bought a number of places in the UK, I feel pretty confident in saying that all houses have something that can be improved etc unless they are brand new (and I must say, I'm even more...
Forum: Canada
Mar 12th 2008, 5:25 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 2,021
Posted By blimey

Re: How to choose your Real Estate Agent?

what an odd comment - surely having the website details speaks to someone who is not "hiding"

why did your mum choose Souvenir?
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