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Blah blah probably couldn't offer this realtor enough money to do ~data science ~ if you consider she sold 200 properties last year.
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4 a week, that's bonkers. Sign me up.
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Jan 21, 2017 02:59
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Here's my contribution to realtor mail chat Everyone in Vancouver should be a realtor really.
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Jan 21, 2017 04:49
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/farshadzandi/ and that's it. there's nothing else here. back on the streets of east tehran he'd just be another garbage scavenger. i guess this is one positive of an economy that depends on real estate.
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namaste faggots posted:https://www.linkedin.com/in/farshadzandi/ He almost certainly has family connections to the old money fuckbags who fled Iran during the revolution to set up shop on the North Shore, and is getting those contracts through glorious racial nepotism. Without them he'd be a garbage collector here, too. Source: I worked for that crowd for nearly a decade.
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Jan 21, 2017 05:27
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namaste faggots posted:This realtor left a flyer in my mailbox. would
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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. You wouldn't believe this if you spent some time with the worst passing students from any STEM major. The fact that she writes at a Grade 8 or 9 level and hasn't figure out which words should be capitalized is a sign in that direction.
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Jan 21, 2017 05:30
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cmon man. i know it's waterloo but what would you say if engineering grads from NC State couldn't work anywhere but as realtors
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leftist heap posted:the poor small businessman with $30 million in real estate Did you even read this article? It doesn't matter if you own the property or not. Whoever is renting the space is affected by dramatic property value increases. quote:Tenants running small businesses, which make up most of Railtown, will be hardest hit, Mr. Sullivan says. The majority of leases in Vancouver are "triple net," which means the tenant pays the landlord the rent, but is also responsible for maintenance and property taxes. With an unexpectedly huge tax hike, many businesses won't survive, he says. This is actually a real problem. Commercial property speculation will result in all my favourite mom n' pop vegan restaurants going out of business, and then you just have empty storefronts being held indefinitely by foreign speculators. Vancouver residential property taxes are so low in part because the city taxes commercial very highly. This should probably be rebalanced, but that's probably political suicide.
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Femtosecond posted:Did you even read this article? It doesn't matter if you own the property or not. Whoever is renting the space is affected by dramatic property value increases. That's fine though, because waiters and kitchen staff can't afford to live in the city anyways. it'll just be a bunch of empty stores and empty condos sitting there appreciating.
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The first dude in the example owns the $30 million in property though, or at least that was the impression the article gave. I totally agree, it is a legitimate problem, but they should have found an actual mom and pop place with a triple lease to interview.
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Jan 21, 2017 06:38
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In victoria every vacant retail space gets filled with a pot store or condo sales office. It's all good.
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Vis a vis Waterloo educated realtor, it is also possible that she just decided she actually hated her degree. I was a lab partner with a friend of mine in comp sci in university, and he told me he didn't think he'd written a single working program in his whole time at school. Somehow he just barely got by and he eventually realized he was dramatically more interested in his various extra curricular activities that were totally unrelated to computer science. By the time he realized this he was already three years deep into a comp sci degree, so he just finished it but immediately went on to work in a totally different, non technical, field, which he's had huge success in.
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namaste faggots posted:cmon man. i know it's waterloo but what would you say if engineering grads from NC State couldn't work anywhere but as realtors What makes you think being a realtor was the only option for her career wise?
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A Typical Goon posted:What makes you think being a realtor was the only option for her career wise? Probably gonna go with the 3 year stint doing customer service at the Fairmont, here.
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blah_blah posted:Probably gonna go with the 3 year stint doing customer service at the Fairmont, here. You can socially engineer the answers pretty easily if you didn't want to speculate
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large hands posted:Urban planners from around the world study Nanaimo as a cautionary example of how not to do things. The best part is that this isn't even a joke.
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Is working for RIM more shameful than being a realtor?
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That is a gorgeous post, CI.
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OTOH, "woman grits teeth to finish STEM degree and then abandons field because it's full of assholes who treat her like a child" is a tragically common story.
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Women get treated better in the trades than they do in STEM fields, FFS. It's pathetic. Remember how I posted that Vancouver Island is mostly privately held land? Somebody is divesting HARD: http://www.landquest.com/detailmain.aspx?propid=16245 This is a fantastic example of the kind of neo-feudal rent seeking which has increasingly held British Columbia captive over the past half-century, as unbelievably wealthy dynasties have sought to build concentrated portfolios of freehold land as soon as it enters the public market. Rime fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Jan 21, 2017 |
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Jan 21, 2017 18:13
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Rime posted:Women get treated better in the trades than they do in STEM fields, FFS. It's pathetic. There are some gems in that listing. Apparently the Oregon cranberry farms in that portfolio is next to a top US golf resort, and the realtor thought it was a selling point.
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http://www.priceypads.com/alternative-living-6-more-closets-you-can-rent-in-vancouver-b-c-from-600month-photos/ anyone want to rent a closet in the best place on earth
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namaste faggots posted:http://www.priceypads.com/alternative-living-6-more-closets-you-can-rent-in-vancouver-b-c-from-600month-photos/ Is there any evidence people are actually renting these places? All I see is outrage at the listings.
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Mantle posted:Is there any evidence people are actually renting these places? All I see is outrage at the listings. Students will live in *far* worse than that.
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James Baud posted:Students will live in *far* worse than that. I don't think this is the right question. It's not a matter of whether they would live in those conditions, but whether they would at that price. Students have access to education loans and campus housing too, what does that cost these days?
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Lol, campus housing. Nobosy has built new student housing here for twenty years, it's all market condos or for international students.
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Yeah, it was big news when UofT guaranteed on-campus housing just for all of its first year students, there's nowhere near enough for all students. (The construction of the housing was delayed for a year or something, so UofT had to rent a whole hotel downtown to store the little tykes in.)
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Pretty sure a disturbingly large proportion of people in BC work in real estate in one or another. Gonna need a lot of naloxone kits for when the bubble pops.
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cowofwar posted:Pretty sure a disturbingly large proportion of people in BC work in real estate in one or another. Gonna need a lot of naloxone kits for when the bubble pops. But think of all the real estate that'll free up!
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cowofwar posted:Gonna need a lot of naloxone kits for when the bubble pops. SpannerX posted:But think of all the real estate that'll free up! After combining these two statements I'd like to amend my suggestion to Guest2553 posted:Offer to buy their underwater property for Guest2553 fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Jan 22, 2017 |
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If a realtor with a BMath* is the second worst example of underemployed talent that you can think of, have I got folders of PhDs who'll never get a job in a related industry (let alone in academia) for you. Let me tell about the presentation I got about transitioning into industry by a data scientist for plentyoffish.com, or even better, go apply for a job there yourself if you want to do cutting-edge machine learning data mining for a poo poo-rate dating website. Bonus points: it's in Vancouver, so who says tech isn't booming in BC? *from a good program yes, but who knows if she did particularly well although it would have been more challenging in the sausage fest that is STEM at UWaterloo Precambrian Video Games fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Jan 22, 2017 |
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Hubbert posted:The best part is that this isn't even a joke. Ever wonder why there are so many roads laid out in what appears to be nonsensical manner in Nanaimo, such as roads that cut across areas in a diagonal manner? It's because they simply laid down roads over top of what used to be tracks used for mining. The only real parts of Nanaimo that really look to have planning in their layouts are the downtown area, which is laid out in a hub manner and was planned out by someone in the UK in the 1800s, and the Harewood (*ahem* "University District") area that is a grid pattern. When I previously mentioned the lack of vision, it was at least partially related on how poor the development of the city has been. I feel like severely haphazard might be underplaying how the development of Nanaimo has been mostly to date. Edit: I forgot I wanted to mention on the topic of the private ownership of much of Vancouver Island, I was explaining this not long ago to my lifelong friend who was also born and raised here. I assumed this was well-known and was surprised he didn't know about it. It's heinous that the summit of Mount Benson is owned by private interests. http://www.nalt.bc.ca/index.php?p=1_2_About-Mount-Benson quote:There are several different owners of the mountain. On the front slopes (north-east) they include TimberWest, BC Crown Land (leased to Malaspina University College), Island Timberlands (was Weyerhaeuser), and the Department of National Defense. Until recently, the 523 acre property that extends across the top of the front face was owned by a development company called Pennclan-Reeve. For the timber companies, the primary use of their properties is timber harvest. Initially, Pennclan-Reeve stated that their reason for logging their property was to "open up the viewscape" and develop the property as view lots. However, they later abandoned this idea and focused on revenue from logging the timber. About 100 acres of this property was logged in 2003; and at least another 50 acres during 2004. There was no further logging in 2005, and only a small patch of the logged area is visible from downtown Nanaimo. Xaranthius fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Jan 22, 2017 |
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eXXon posted:If a realtor with a BMath* is the second worst example of underemployed talent that you can think of, have I got folders of PhDs who'll never get a job in a related industry (let alone in academia) for you. Well, being an adjunct at a community college or similar is probably the most depressing common outcome for Ph.Ds.
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https://twitter.com/stephenfgordon/status/822228168799121409 Ben Rabidoux is one of the best authorities on the housing market if not the best. His feed is private now, presumably to avoid having to keep paying out money to fend off SLAPP lawsuits.
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i recognize fortress because some ween that works for them continually spams urbantoronto with self promoting garbage
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namaste faggots posted:https://twitter.com/stephenfgordon/status/822228168799121409 I was wondering why I stopped seeing his tweets. This whole thing is distressing on many levels
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Seen on twitter: Tiny home movement = artisanal trailer park
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