Ppl complain about landlords bc there's plenty of shitty ones. LL who once owned my house rented it w a leaking roof/broken smoke detectors. Also, nobody forces anyone to buy extra property to be a landlord.

Articles like this published all over. As a family who does save considerable $ because we had the privilege of making upfront costs to do so, agreed!

@avilewis.ca Please! This is the big push we need from the NDP! Imagine building and maintaining a healthy supply of social housing units across Canada so renters are not left at the mercy of the kinds of homes corporate and private real estate investors are willing to supply.

"The goal is to attract a new group: owners who are looking for homes. It’s a potential silver lining to the condo crash" It has more silver linings, but Enough elevators, more bedroom, more soundproofing. Speculators fled, now developers need to build homes people would actually buy to live in #RE

With incidence of cancers in the profession, surprised programs like this aren't already in place. Burning materials on calls, fire suppressant foam, the protective gear they wear all exposes firefighters to some nasty carcinogens. Well done Misty Van Popta. #BC

Jesus. We've really piled all in on this mess. I don't imagine parents will continue to be eager to co-sign with values slowly falling, and still those non-cosigning amounts buy a crappy old strata, or mobile home with lot rent- aka it's better to rent. #FTHB #REBubble #JustSpeculationThings #CdnRE

Annnnd now #VanRE #BC. Sitting on record unsold inventory, so bad they're looking for bulk buyers. But the biggest melt-up ever is coming guys! Better FOMO buy today! Another prediction that is going to age like a carton of milk left in the backseat of a car sitting in the hot July sun.

How every RE carnage story that talks about crying families losing everything because they can't afford the payments on homes bought near peak for triple the price they used to sell for 10 yrs ago HAS to push the idea that ZOMG a big wave of pent up RE demand could be coming!! 🙄 #REBubble #CdnRE

#BC #VanRE How come these are so bloody rare in BC? Other provinces do it, and gives buyers a family friendly non-strata option without the expense/workload of a single detached freehold house. Fee simple townhouse- own the house & the land. No common property, no strata fees, no strata council.

I thought Carney was a builder of infrastructure? With $2.4 billion, we could quickly get to incredible levels of intercity bus service. Medical appointments, family visits, vacations, etc could all be done without a car. Instead, the people who can afford a car will save ~$5 per tank.

More posts about the so-called vibe-session, positing that the middle class are longinging to keep up with the rich and famous. Meanwhile, I can pay my bills and eat but am terrified of the poverty that awaits me as I age. *Pure vibes.*

My seeing Budapest at some point seems more likely today than it did yesterday, and that's pretty cool.

"“If we weren’t choosing to do this, it would be frightening,” she said." BINGO. This kind of meal shopping works, but HUGE difference in being a choice to save money for other goals, vs being spread so thin you have no other alternative #CostOfLivingCrisis

A couple weeks ago, Nicholas Keung at the Toronto Star reported on how generative AI is being used to assess immigration applications in Canada...and how it's led to refusals because of stuff the AI tool added in, that humans (clearly) failed to check. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Hard to overstate the ramifications of this outcome. Russia and Israel have lost their biggest European ally

Landlord rented AFTER foreclosure was started (scumbag), tenant caught in a nightmare As carry costs⤴️ & RE ⤵️ stories like this will happen w more frequency Could you imagine if we were in a Canada whose rental market also included plentiful social housing units as options? #HousingCrisis #CdnRE

we want you to build a shit-ton of public housing everywhere, FFS

This headline is patently ridiculous. You know what young people want? The same things millennials wanted The things the generations got before them The ability to afford to survive, and more so thrive, doing one job I made ~$40k at 21. A brand new car was $10k. I bought my first house for $60k

AI? Can we choose someone to speak moistly at us instead?

Listen, I love the concept of not being able to hear or see the opinions of teenagers. But this cuts off vital support networks for kids and doesn’t address the systemic predation that social media profits on.

Hopefully #bcndp doesn't let airbnb hosts go wild again to erode the choice/softening prices we're finally starting to 👁️ on LTR Another reason, we are finally starting to get some leverage to demand SAFER lt rentals If you're not at risk of being displaced, bclung 🫁 has this tenant page for #Radon

THIS in any scale to impact the crisis of finding suitable homes is never posed as an option by the private market currently building & investing in Canadian homes. youtu.be/41VJudBdYXY?...

RIGHT?!?!

"it has to go back to community imput" Ahhh back to the good ol' days of house owners saying "there's space for density over there" pointing to tree-less area with near zero walk-ability next to busy, noisy and dirty arterial road. #Calgary #Density

"blanket pet bans can contribute to displacement and homelessness, as well as force people to give up their pets if they can’t find a place that allows pets This can have a particularly negative impact on vulnerable groups like women escaping violence, 2SLGBTQAI+, and seniors." #BC #pets

Pssst -You can get a really good quality Second hand machine from the 70's-80's for a SONG the first summer you try looking at Kijiji/marketplace/thrifts/yardsales. Get it professionally tuned up. Usually way better quality vs heading to a big box store and buying a starter new machine.

Just NO🤮 How many 🏘️ on the market rn bc marriages/romantic relationships of the owners dissolved? This is reckless to suggest. Nothing wrong w renting/relocating instead. RE industry starved for fat commissions & clearly don't see an issue promoting ways to just wreak people to get them. #REBubble

Big reason I think cheapskate stratas unwilling to make capacity upgrades will see an absence of end users willing to live there We'll never buy another home we can't install heat pump (cooling) or charge an EV. Annoying renting in one now, having to charge off site & rely on inefficient rolling AC

How much profit in BC residential real estate over the last few decades yet THESE are the homes that market made & maintained WHEN do we decide in #BC that ALL #rental homes, ALL #strata units & EVERY apartment building shouldn't kill or permanently weaken/injure their occupants in #heat events

A rare win

If "TACO!" is all you have to say when Trump is threatening to murder millions of innocents, you should probably sit down and shut the fuck up.

"Then there are those who bought what they thought was a starter condo, only now they can't unload it with plummeting condo prices" Also not in our forever house, getting a bit tight here, but don't have some urgent desire to "unload" it. Really shows what shit these so called "starter" condos are

WTF happened to the Pokemon card hobby!?!

Yeah it's called CPTSD

@davidebybc.bsky.social Hey BCNDP, Summer is coming, many of us worry how hot it will be. Why are so many people in our province still without relief when the heat hits?

How much profit in BC residential real estate over the last few decades yet THESE are the homes that market made & maintained WHEN do we decide in #BC that ALL #rental homes, ALL #strata units & EVERY apartment building shouldn't kill or permanently weaken/injure their occupants in #heat events

Doesn’t support much needed social housing (@assistance rates) but always pro-RECartel market condos #vanre #vanpoli

The War Against Misinformation Is Over. The Lies Won New research suggests people know images and headlines are false but share them anyway, by @justinling.ca thewalrus.ca/the-war-agai... via @thewalrus.ca

Again, news covers a buyer who's actually a RE agent upset discovering buying precons had risks, now complaining “The government is doing nothing.” Can turn this into a drinking game at this point, but I like Canada's first responders too much for that. #Speculation #ReBubble #BubblesBurst #ToRE

current estimates suggest that 20% of the homeless population in Canada are people over the age of 65

It started as a flight to affordability, Ppl don't want SHITTY HOMES If you were in BC or ON, esp if you wanted to FTHB (or move up to) a row or detached house, you often couldn't at home- price is too massive, if you owned you sold the "starter condo" you hated, packed up a truck & hit the TCH too

Tom Petty- Saving Grace #Music

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The conspiracy fringe made great hay out of 'climate lockdowns' the WEF or NWO or whatever were going to impose to keep you trapped in 15 minute cities, and in the end Trump did it by causing an energy crisis

Awww Magawa was an (ridiculously adorable) southern giant pouched rat who detected over 100 landmines in his career. ❤️

"End users—rather than investors—are driving buying activity, and end users tend to prefer completed or under-construction inventory, he said" Not only have we built a glut of units nobody wants as a long term home, The math doesn't work on these strata units.

Agree but I can see where some of the entitlement might have come from. Media ran too many stories like this, I guess so Millennial and Z's wouldn't go to the streets protesting like the French because of our crushing housing costs You will learn to stop worrying and to love the bubble.

Bro, just one more tax cut will fix everything, bro, trust me, just one more and everything will be perfect.

"My worst nightmare to see this day coming" NOT exactly a vouch of confidence on how livable these condo buildings actually are as homes Don't forget, These were the same folks lining up for hours to pack themselves into a presale event to even snag some condos during the yrs of frenzy #CondoCrash