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Christ, I grew up in Nanaimo. How many goddamn Nanaimoites are there? edit: I knew three Crystals
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Xaranthius posted:I work for Real Estate Webmasters, which is apropos given the subject of this thread. How is it there? For like 3 months last year they/LinkedIn kept trying to head hunt me. However my many years of internet experience has taught me that real estate on the internet is either dirty (e.g. black hat) or clueless ("what do you mean I can't make everyone in BC visit my site???")
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I grew up in Victoria, I miss it
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quote:Niels Bendtsen is one of Vancouver's longest-standing design and manufacturing success stories. He has been designing and making furniture in Vancouver since 1963 and his Ribbon Chair sits in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. But a recent eye-popping property tax assessment has Mr. Bendtsen considering if he should relocate his business to another city. the poor small businessman with $30 million in real estate
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Xaranthius posted:I've known at least three, but yeah two were from Crofton or thereabouts. I'm in my mid-thirties, I grew up in the Comox Valley and wound up living here and working for an engineering/enviro/whatever company. We have a pretty small office, and we've had a few people move here from other parts of the province/country but even with all of Vancouver Island from basically Mill Bay north as our territory it's hard to find much in the way of work here. I have no idea how people living in this town make money - there's no major industry except for a pulp mill. I assume that we've got a bunch of people that work/worked in the tar sands living here that just flew out to commute but that seems unlikely at this point.
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# ? Jan 20, 2017 02:27 |
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Ugh stop calling the dtes ~railtown~
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# ? Jan 20, 2017 02:33 |
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My wife knows a bunch of people in Nanaimo through work and they are all happy there because they'd make the same money in Victoria but houses are cheaper there. Insurance is a thing that's needed everywhere humans are. In fact on the gulf islands working in one of the tiny little insurance offices is one of the few normal full time jobs you can have. All those luxury cabins need insurance, people renew their boat insurance, everyone needs car insurance.
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# ? Jan 20, 2017 02:36 |
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We just moved to a small town north of Courtenay. How hosed are we? Measurements from 'Anne Frank in attic' to 'Forrest Gump' thanks.
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I liked Campbell River, your edit will not save you. Trees and ocean, a nice place to be. Get a dog, live the good and quiet life. There's a reason Walden wasn't written in a studio apartment around Coal Harbour.
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namaste faggots posted:are you loving stupid Sorry namaste I don't live in Canada. But my citizenship certificate is coming in the mail soon. Maybe we can hang out?
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# ? Jan 20, 2017 03:31 |
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Campbell River is pretty nice, hasn't been hit by the insanity prices that Courtenay has and the whole North Island is pretty nice really. If I don't move back to Revelstoke, I'll probably head to the North Island or the Charlottes in the next few years.
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Xaranthius posted:I've long said that Nanaimo will end up as a suburb of Vancouver given the commute times between here and there compared to what some people do in the lower mainland. The only other people saying this are developers and real estate agents in Nanaimo. I don't buy it ever really happening. Maybe for a few dudes who can afford to fly often. Probably never going to be a bridge, ferry alone exceeds most people's commute time pain threshold, and you still have to get to the drat thing then to your place of work. Too long and too much uncertainty.
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Maybe the next time some media empire has to lay off a bunch of journalists they could start with the people who think property taxes go up at the same rate that property assessments do. Thanks.
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yippee cahier posted:Maybe the next time some media empire has to lay off a bunch of journalists they could start with the people who think property taxes go up at the same rate that property assessments do. Thanks. Actually they do. It's like how you have to be careful not to get too big a raise or you'll be in a bigger tax bracket.
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The Butcher posted:The only other people saying this are developers and real estate agents in Nanaimo. Same people who've been peddling that line for as long as I can remember. I know people who commute but they usually limit it to two or three times a week and work from home or a Nanaimo office as much as possible. The harbour to harbour seaplanes are getting expensive and walking on the B.C. ferries must be 5+ hours by the time you get downtown and return. Isn't there something in the works for another harbour to harbour fast cat passenger ferry? That's always popular with the commuters for a year or two until it goes bankrupt.
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You know why they go bankrupt? How do you make money on a luxury when your market are paupers
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Hey look guys I boat commute to my $75k year job
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They should use those bathtub boats they used to race but I haven't heard about that in forever. Probably the fast ferries fault, somehow.
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leftist heap posted:Actually they do. It's like how you have to be careful not to get too big a raise or you'll be in a bigger tax bracket.
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cowofwar posted:Unless the municipality decides they need more money or your property raises in value more than others your property taxes wont go up even if your property appreciates greatly, in fact they can go down if yours appreciates relatively less than others. My property value went up and also my property taxes went up sooo the correlation is pretty obvious. What's city hall got to do with it? It's those idiots at BC Assessments who have no clue how real estate actually works.
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leftist heap posted:My property value went up and also my property taxes went up sooo the correlation is pretty obvious. What's city hall got to do with it? It's those idiots at BC Assessments who have no clue how real estate actually works. I suspect the employees at BC assessment aren't as stupid as you suggest, but I don't know any so who knows. Also this: Vancouver property tax rates keep dropping.
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leftist heap posted:My property value went up and also my property taxes went up sooo the correlation is pretty obvious. What's city hall got to do with it? It's those idiots at BC Assessments who have no clue how real estate actually works. If the city needs $1,000,000 and you own 1% of all the property based on value (let's say you own $10,000,000 total value) you pay $10,000. Now if the city the next year decided they still only need $1,000,000 but your property increased in value 10x but remained at 1% of all the properties assessed based on value you would still only pay $10,000 in tax. If everyone else's property went up by 100% but yours only went up 50% then you would now own relatively less of the total market (0.5%) so your taxes would be $5,000. A decrease despite an increase in property values. Conversely if your property maintained valuation but everyone else was devalued by 50% then you would now owe $20,000 in taxes. The point is there is some arbitrarily set number representing the revenues needed by the city that is spread over all the properties based on their values. It's not a simple x% tax applied on value.
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cowofwar posted:The point is there is some arbitrarily set number representing the revenues needed by the city that is spread over all the properties based on their values. It's not a simple x% tax applied on value. And then there can be different rates for different types of residential, commercial, etc. that make up the overall tax increase percentage you hear on the news anyway.
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christ i thought my comment on tax brackets would have made it pretty obvious that i was joking
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You were joking but it's always good to explain how municipal property taxes are so drat counter-intuitive to everybody.
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Evis posted:I suspect the employees at BC assessment aren't as stupid as you suggest, but I don't know any so who knows. Also this: Vancouver property tax rates keep dropping. yeah well my property "value" may have tripled but my salary hasn't!!!
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# ? Jan 20, 2017 18:29 |
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Just take away private ownership, nationalize all the property and the Chinese investors will go away and we can focus on craft beer.
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# ? Jan 20, 2017 18:58 |
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leftist heap posted:christ i thought my comment on tax brackets would have made it pretty obvious that i was joking I got your joke at least
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leftist heap posted:the poor small businessman with $30 million in real estate I can't loving stand it when people call anything that negatively affects them somebody "penalizing" them. Oh it's so unfair that my property value tripled and you are penalizing my poor small business.
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Not really housing related but the guy was from EDM so whatever. I feel bad the guy thought suicide was his only option but holy gently caress a quick google search would have let him know this is 100% a loving scam.
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This realtor left a flyer in my mailbox. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristi-holz-aa7bb064/ I know a bunch of you all are like HAW HAW HAW MATH IS USELESS LOOK I'M STUDYING POLITICAL THEORY I CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE but take it from me, this woman's undergrad is nothing to sneeze at and she's very intelligent. I'm posting this because this is second most awful example of a waste of resources I've seen in Vancouver. This woman, for whatever reason, ended up in the trash heap human detritus that is customer service in the tourism industry and has become a successful realtor. I don't begrudge her for becoming successful but in any alpha++ city she should be doing something much more productive than loving selling condos. Here's probably the worst example: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginarossi78/ in case you ignoramuses are wondering, a Phd in experimental medicine isn't chiropracty or homeopathy what I'm saying is, BC's economy is so royally hosed and distorted by real estate, the repercussions will reverberate for decades
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Lobok posted:You were joking but it's always good to explain how municipal property taxes are so drat counter-intuitive to everybody. If property taxes were levied in the intuitive way people think they are, cities might actually be able to afford things like public transit and infrastructure improvement without having to beg the provincial and federal governments.
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Those are a pretty great example of how the BC / Canadian economy is so loving hollowed now, CI. This was a good post.
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namaste faggots posted:This realtor left a flyer in my mailbox. this all sounds crazy to me, according to this thread these people should be making seven figures scamming mopes on wall st with whiz bang math talk. But the really odd thing is why she thinks all this math background is something to advertise in her realtor speal, like I'm supposed to trust her to do a god job selling houses because she's great at math? You can learn how to sell houses in a loving week.
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Aw man that is so depressing.
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Yeah now imagine if you have that degree yourself
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Throatwarbler posted:this all sounds crazy to me, according to this thread these people should be making seven figures scamming mopes on wall st with whiz bang math talk. But the really odd thing is why she thinks all this math background is something to advertise in her realtor speal, like I'm supposed to trust her to do a god job selling houses because she's great at math? You can learn how to sell houses in a loving week. Are you even employed
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namaste faggots posted:Are you even employed
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# ? Jan 21, 2017 02:40 |
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Here's a LinkedIn protip, gaps in employment and education history look very very bad.
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namaste faggots posted:I know a bunch of you all are like HAW HAW HAW MATH IS USELESS LOOK I'M STUDYING POLITICAL THEORY I CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE but take it from me, this woman's undergrad is nothing to sneeze at and she's very intelligent. 2008 RIM snapped her, saw that a few times.
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