The stories of losses on Pre-construction sub 500 sqft Dog Crate Condos & even on slightly larger 600+ sqft units just keep on coming
The same themes but different problems & really bad outcomes
More details are emerging
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A new twist is the difficulty in securing normal mortgages to close on these wildly overpriced units
In a great G&M piece this morning #rachelleyounglai describes an 8.3% mortgage rate on a $410K mortgage producing a $4200 payment including mortgage, condo fees & taxes
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The Buyers were turned down by their bank and were forced to take a huge mortgage rate
Rent on the unit is $2400 they lose $1800 every month
Or they could sell for a $75K loss, this Pre-Con unit was bought in 2018 & closed last January
A true financial disaster
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To make matters worse another Pre-Con unit closed in May & they lose $3050 per month on that one
Absolutely devastating losses that are hard to escape
@JohnPasalis had a great post this weekend
Toronto Pre-Con Condos became wildly miss priced 6 years ago
And no one cared
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People just kept on buying with a ridiculously false belief rents would increase massively & mortgage rates would be 2.49% forever
Buyers would snap up Pre-Con Condos at $1250 per sqft when Re-Sale Condos across the street were offered at $825 per sqft
WTF? It made no sense
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But here's a common feature: most of them minted money on previous transactions
The couple taking nearly $6K a month losses made a $500K profit on a 2013 unit they sold in 2022
They were Rental Condo Investors who really BELIEVED
Not anymore
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Conservatives Members Of Parliament Crossing The Floor To Become Liberals: Those MPs Were BOUGHT
I don't think we can end Floor Crossings because it's just too hard, it's almost a Constitutional change
But look at WHY people elected to represent one party switch parties
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It's because they're BRIBED to do it
Not bribed with money, bribed with Perks, bribed with quiet promises of future higher paying positions in Parliament, bribed with assurance of Party Support in the next election, bribed with Polling numbers that favor the Liberals
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And the reason these very small time bribes work is twofold
1) Loyalty to a Party is dying in Canadian politics 2) Some Back Bench MPs are pretty small, shitty people, total opportunitists
The Trickery Never Ends In Real Estate Sales: Let's List The House The House For $250K Less Than We Will Take
For the last 20 years Residential Real Estate has used some of the worst Sales Tactics
Not every Realtor does this but too many do it endlessly
Fake list prices
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For a hundred years Real Estate was sold by offering a house at slightly above the price you wanted & some back & forth negotiations happened & the Buyer & Seller arrived at an acceptable sale price
When GTA house prices went nuts in the early 2000's this concept died
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Instead houses were priced to attract an Auction
Multiple BIDS was the only way to sell a home
Real Estate Agents boasted about 10 bids, 20 bids 40 bids
At higher prices
In 2021 things were so crazy there was a BULLY offer
Before all offers were in a HUGE offer appeared
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