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Come to Vancouver. Sure the jobs don't pay and you'll be living in a boarding house full of bunk beds stacked like cord wood but at least you'll be nestled between the ocean and mountains, two places you'll barely ever get to visit because you're spending all of your meager paycheque on the bare necessities. At least you don't need a parka.
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Vancouverites could possibly have better quality of lives with their lovely incomes but they also are all full on-board the conspicuous consumption train. The ones in rooming houses are the ones up at whistler every weekend. The ones who bought a condo on a $40k job are working at their second job.
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May 30, 2016 21:06
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wow, how the gently caress did i miss that jezebel article on lululemon
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Subjunctive posted:I thought TD in the US was a separate corporate entity not included in the assets of TDCT (and therefore not in the shares in question). Is that not the case? You are thinking of TD Ameritrade, which for legal reasons TD can't own control of but are they majority stockholders of.
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May 30, 2016 21:22
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etalian posted:It's just not the mortgage you are talking at least a few hundred each month in strata fees along with all the other extra costs such as tax and maintenance. Can someone 'splain me why strata fees and special assessments are noted as especially bad features of condo living? These are all things you would either have to do or pay to have done if you owned any kind of dwelling, it's just that you could presumably let your property fall into complete disrepair if you prefer.
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May 30, 2016 21:35
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HookShot posted:You guys are missing out if you haven't seen THE WOLF OF WHISTLER's youtube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95dRwxMV7iY I'd love to see how much business this commercial has really driven as it's peak bro-douche.
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May 30, 2016 21:38
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PT6A posted:Can someone 'splain me why strata fees and special assessments are noted as especially bad features of condo living? These are all things you would either have to do or pay to have done if you owned any kind of dwelling, it's just that you could presumably let your property fall into complete disrepair if you prefer. Special assessments often come all at once and end up subsidizing cheap asses who kept the building in disrepair for forty years.
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May 30, 2016 21:59
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The moral of the story is that if you buy in a building with a pool and a gym, you should utilize the poo poo that you are paying for and get swole rather than sitting on your fat goon rear end all day.
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May 30, 2016 22:02
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ZShakespeare posted:The moral of the story is that if you buy in a building with a pool and a gym, you should utilize the poo poo that you are paying for and get swole rather than sitting on your fat goon rear end all day. Yeah, my building has a gym and I use it 4-5 times per week on average, and I would otherwise have to pay for a gym membership (and then actually go to the gym, instead of just going downstairs). That's not some useless amenity, it's a thing that pretty much everyone should be taking advantage of on a semi-regular basis. I don't use the hot tub as much, but I use it occasionally. Sadly, we are not allowed to drink in the hot tub.
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May 30, 2016 22:05
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sbaldrick posted:You are thinking of TD Ameritrade, which for legal reasons TD can't own control of but are they majority stockholders of. You're right, I am. Thank you.
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May 30, 2016 22:08
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PT6A posted:Can someone 'splain me why strata fees and special assessments are noted as especially bad features of condo living? These are all things you would either have to do or pay to have done if you owned any kind of dwelling, it's just that you could presumably let your property fall into complete disrepair if you prefer. Because it's a unknown cost, people think that in a condo mortgage you only have to worry about the monthly payments when in reality their are many extra costs. You also might get a suprise strata assessment if the building needs a big repair like windows or new roof.
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May 30, 2016 22:17
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Special assessments require an owner meeting with advance notice and a 3/4 vote so it's not exactly a surprise. Besides you went over all the minutes, and deficiency reports before you bought and got the poo poo looked at by a professional like a responsible home buyer right? It's no different than if you bought a detached house with a roof about to collapse.
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May 30, 2016 22:20
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Cultural Imperial posted:haven't you been reading mickeyfinn's last couple posts? #yoloswag and you'll be happy gently caress yeah, what is the worst that could happen? You'll be happy for a few years before losing everything instead of being miserable for a few years (if you really care about housing) and then getting nothing when the bubble collapses and takes the local economy and your job with it.
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May 30, 2016 22:32
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ZShakespeare posted:responsible home buyer There's your problem right there, not only do you need to be one, but so does everyone else in the building, not only now but for as long as you live there.
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May 30, 2016 23:18
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http://business.financialpost.com/p...-vicious-circlequote:After long boom, Canada’s housing shows some signs of cooling as high prices create ‘a vicious circle’ hey guys you're not supposed to tell the market the boom is over
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May 30, 2016 23:22
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Real ad
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Coolwhoami posted:There's your problem right there, not only do you need to be one, but so does everyone else in the building, not only now but for as long as you live there. Funny, this is how I feel about having to co-exist with all people on all scales. Maybe city life isn't for you.
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Real ad hey burnaby heights bro
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ZShakespeare posted:Funny, this is how I feel about having to co-exist with all people on all scales. Maybe city life isn't for you. Perhaps that's part of the appeal of detached housing: the illusion of being independent. It helps that property taxes are a highly abstract sort of shared costing, whereas strata fees are a pretty overt and topical reminder of whatever dumb poo poo your building gets up to.
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May 31, 2016 02:21
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Bob Rennie race relations heritage fund lmao
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May 31, 2016 02:28
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I love that profligacy is now a virtue. Thanks mickeyfinn what a time to be alive
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Cultural Imperial posted:I love that profligacy is now a virtue. Thanks mickeyfinn what a time to be alive Easy there, hoss. I didn't say it was a virtue, just that it might make someone happy for a little while.
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Step 1: Christy Clark brings representatives from Nu Stream Realty and Sutton West Coast Realty as part of her trade delegation to Asia. Step 2: People find out. Step 3: Christy Clark's Twitter posted:We are focused on growing BC's economy and creating jobs. There is no promotion of BC residential real estate. Full stop. 
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http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/10174634?utm_hp_ref=canada-british-columbia&ir=Canada+British+Columbia& Attention yoloswag supply side dipshits
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Femtosecond posted:How are these investor wizards picking which bank to short? Darts on a dartboard? Are they picking TD because it's the biggest? It's also probably the most diversified and it's a top 10 bank in the USA (America's Most Convenient Bank™). I wouldn't be surprised if it's the least exposed bank. Public companies post their financials and risk factors often. Which one's cash flows are slowing the most? Which one has the most exposure to what assets? If all else fails, you can rely heavily on intermarket analysis techniques, judging the performance of a security relative its sector, other securities in its sector, or proportionally or inversely correlated assets. You might not know something's happening before it does, but you'll know it's happening. Those short positions might be left over from before February when oil bounced, not in expectation of something about to happen. Maybe those shorts are giving some back because they don't think oil's rally will last, and they're holding for downside continuation. When people are looking to short something with an uncertain time horizon, they generally turn to options, not stocks. The operative phrase to look out for is "put to call ratio."
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May 31, 2016 06:52
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What do these people expect the mayor of Vancouver to do anyway, declare war on China? Seems unfair to be dumping all the blame on him.
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May 31, 2016 06:56
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I dunno raise property taxes or something
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May 31, 2016 07:01
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Make it so that if you own a piece of residential property and it is determined that it is vacant, your property taxes increase substantially.
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Cultural Imperial posted:DJ mayor Gregor moonbeam wrote a thing in Canadian monocle Who the gently caress is getting paid 66% higher than their industry standard wage, other than realtors? :picard:
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OSI bean dip posted:Make it so that if you own a piece of residential property and it is determined that it is vacant, your property taxes increase substantially. They studied this and found that the amount of vacant detached homes and townhouses was incredibly small. This is not actually a problem at all. There are more vacant condo units, but this is probably for reasons that have nothing to do with speculation and the greater housing bubble issue, as the rate of unoccupancy has no relationship with the rise in prices .
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The Mayor of Vancouver has the weakest ability of all actors to affect this situation. Pretty much all he could do is approve increased housing construction, which most people here disapprove of.
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Femtosecond posted:They studied this and found that the amount of vacant detached homes and townhouses was incredibly small. This is not actually a problem at all. There are more vacant condo units, but this is probably for reasons that have nothing to do with speculation and the greater housing bubble issue, as the rate of unoccupancy has no relationship with the rise in prices . I thought that study was poo poo? Like if a caretaker came in once a month to pick up the mail and turned on the lights while there, that house would have counted as occupied.
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Yep. That's right. There's a house next to me with automatic lights. I bet it counts, too. Also tried to buy a house and some dick got it for just over our bidding price... in cash. Who the gently caress has 215k in cash?
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