Is 2015 the year to buy a house in Calgary??

spaminator

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...and how many Albertan or Saskatchewanians are aware in that part of the desert province they have some interesting creepy crawlers..




The Northern Scorpion, Paruroctonus boreus

Check your sleeping bag before you turn in for the night.
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They need to hire a few tornadoes here...

Edmonton, is upper middle class, nicer homes.. more space, cleaner.. ILoveEdmonton.com

Same type of construction, built right on top of each other.
I would not buy a house or condo built in any boom.
So many condos in TO built so fast will be slums in 15 or 20 years. Smart money already sold their shares.
 

darkbeaver

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That must be an apartment.. if you downsize it would be a storage locker.

14,423 SQ.FT. PLUS GARAGE ;)

How big is the garage? What tools? Sky lights?

Same type of construction, built right on top of each other.
I would not buy a house or condo built in any boom.
So many condos in TO built so fast will be slums in 15 or 20 years. Smart money already sold their shares.

Chipboard gyprock plastic and paint, if you're 55 when you buy one it might see you out.


Someone was saying (Bank of Canada) that Canadian housing is thirty % overvalued. BALLOON
 

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Those houses are tiny but there`s nothing wrong with that. Not too up to date on maintenance; who is

But, looking down the street I don`t see too many (none in fact), boarded up.

A far cry from Detroit.

You have a solution to the tiny, not up to date, house problem.............Didn`t think so.

The problem is that these houses are likely all paid for and being a little run down don't generate near the tax revenue or bank profits that a modern box does. Why one could probably buy one with a line of credit instead of a lifetime mortgage.


Most of them are overpriced travel trailers that can't travel. My wife loves that show about people moving out of a real house and into a play house in the back yard.

Yah, the oils no good no more, housings out of the question, looming catostrophic war, menacing CO2 clouds, I think I'll start a cave this summer, by the brook. Hide for a decade or so.

Caves are good. Hard for terrorists to infiltrate. Don't have to shovel snow and no one bitches when you draw on the walls. Also don't matter how wild the parties your friends can't wreck the joint.
 

MHz

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I would think the best deals are from the owner who wants to avoid bankrupsy so he would be looking for somebody to assume his mortgage.
 

MHz

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Think of this first one being similar to the 2nd one which uses the last 22ft of a 70ft version as the atv parking and the slide is a fold out screened in area in case bugs are around.

http://www.startracks.org/oldsite/custom_trailers.htm





A container with slides of the bush would be cool, definitely bear proof and you could probably make it fireproof