#Toronto
Should be in every city in Canada. So many neglected old rental apt buildings out there
11.03.2026 16:24
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#Toronto
Should be in every city in Canada. So many neglected old rental apt buildings out there
Thank you for sharing!
Long time coming, and any landlord whining about the costs to fix only have themselves to blame letting the deferred maintenance at their buildings get that bad. No tenants should be living in deplorable conditions.
That's fantastic!
Happy Birthday!
#ON Don't know if it was all townhouses, or only freehold. Used to be block UP to roof decking between them. Yours could get smoke damaged, but you wouldn't lose everything if next door caught 🔥
Also nice to live in -Block stopped sounds, smells, pests. WTF did they stop putting block between them?
I regularly think the world would be better with more autistic politicians.
but, also me when I think about what being a politician entails...
We have a hybrid, @ the much newer condo we rent it is charged off property, Our near 50yo house? It's not a strata so the capacity is fine, and she charges just fine when my spouse is home.
In BC there's also capacity issues for people to get EV's. Stratas (condo complexes) of all kinds need reports showing electrical capacity & many, even fairly modern complexes would have to do big costly upgrades first. Unit owners can't get heat pumps in these places either & cook in the summer! 🥵
OR we overbuilt a bunch of junk properties heading into the peak of the bubble and they'll be plenty of supply to sit and look for new owners.
eventually when costs calm down, developers who are left build things end users actually want to live in and buy and we have a boring home buying market.
Even in Toronto -horrifically oversupplied with small condos w so many clearly vacant for sale they're trying to push that there will be a shortage of them soon enough, better buy now!🤣
Funny to see them attempt FOMO tactics on those of us who ignored their FOMO tactics and waited during the mania.
We fixed it up and it's a lovely home now.
Place we rent for work is also fine, but viewed a # of gross, yet still expensive places to find it. Lucky we have the house so only need a small space over there.
That's the place we bought. Heard from various neighbours the horrible conditions it was rented in for many years & to families w young kids! Lower income tenants put up w rental units in terrible shape/downright dangerous all the time to not be homeless. For too many in BC that's their options :(
:( Awful. Me too, so many were struggling already w food costs.
Really privileged to have the $, space & time be able to offset some food costs. Picked up gardening back when the pandemic started and get a bunch of fruits and veg from my yard. I also have a big pantry/deep freeze area to stock up.
When we were served landlord's use at the condo we rented near work in an area long term rentals are as scarce as hen's teeth- the STRESS. :( If we wanted if we couldn't find a decent place we could just bail on the area & be OK, other's can't & keep getting their whole life displaced like that!
💯 and absolutely wild in such a big country it's the lack of available safe affordable HOUSING making the bulk or entirety of financial insecurity & crushing stress for ppl. Buying a place that was a run down rental, & also renting to be near work was eye opening at just how bad things are
Finding suitable long term rental housing on the coast there is a complete nightmare.
Sechelt- FIX your housing issue! If ppl can afford & FIND appropriate homes w those incomes ppl who can already legally work in Canada will relocate & take many of those jobs. Don't need to keep exploiting TFWs!
If you come to BC, your wish is granted!
Can, but often incredibly difficult esp ppl w median incomes & anyone lower income. Renting for many can come along w being repeatedly displaced (landlords use evictions) and/or living in homes that are falling apart
My own home was a long time rental- LL rented to ppl for yrs w roof leaking!
Link: www.reddit.com/r/legaladvic...
Have you ever lived in a strata that surprised it's owners with a larger levy? What were the clues something was coming? Did the strata keep the true scope of the issues out of their meeting minutes?
#BC #Strata
have strata docs reviewed by pros, but also learn to spot potential red flags yourself. Sometimes, like here costly issues will not appear in minutes w enough warning for buyers to stay away
Too many units in BC careening towards even 6 figure levies to be lax. Strata- caveat emptor!
#Sechelt #BC #TFW
Crippling? Cry me a river.
You know what's crippling? Insecurity felt by who cannot find clean, safe & suitable housing within those incomes.
Fix your local housing situation and people who can ALREADY legally work in Canada will happily move to your town to take those jobs.
I didn't think when I wrote
"Additionally, because oil deposits inevitably run dry, we often rely on extraction efforts happening in other countries which may or may not be friendly.... and [its] cost can change quite dramatically based on supply and demand"
it would be so prescient but, well...
and before thinking #Ontario is properly funding their condos- they're NOT either. Comparing BC's stratas to ON condo's management, it's like comparing the student with a report card with all F's, to the D- student. Neither are doing amazing, one is considerably worse though!
Video in linked post
#BCRe #Strata is NOT affordable housing.
Per sqft, its way more to carry & maintain a strata than a house
Long as underfunded complexes are common, or inflation runs hot, owners crushed by special assessments, unaffordable strata fees and insurance will make cont to make increasing news headlines
hahaha to Phillip Glass of all people!
and my screengrab. How many of these places are contained units, how many would be for LT rent if STR was illegal? and how many other people in Nanaimo can't find anywhere to live while this is going on?
#Nanaimo #BC #HousingCrisis
Totally Unacceptable- hope they housing before the clock runs out. This is traumatic to people!
As always in this nightmare - nothing affordable to rent, BUT plugging in anytime into airbnb with 1 adult, 1 kid, says there are OVER 1000 homes in Nanaimo to choose from.
Um, absolutely. Unless we want to speedrun cooking the planet and ensure poor people can't afford water or electricity
Happy belated Birthday!
O'Hara was absolutely brilliant in everything she was in. She'll be greatly missed.
Limiting it to the poor also creates places most people don't want to go or be. The countries that did this successfully and created communities could have a higher income professional living next to a low income single parent in the same building/complex.
ONLY solution to the housing/safe rental crisis is building and actually maintaining social housing, there is zero incentive anywhere in the RE industry to actually supply enough appropriate for families, well maintained rentals for our population, anywhere.