Comments on: Credit crisis comes to Olympic Village

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:11:32 +0000

The evil Millenium people are also trying to destroy a heritage building in downtowm Vancouver known as Maxine's Hideaway. They'll rape Vancouver's taxpayers and then they'll erase its heritage. These people have no humanity and need to be stopped at all cost!

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By: Glug GLug Glug

Glug GLug Glug — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:14:58 +0000

Just another feather in Sullivan, Ladner and Campbell's hat. Great job boys! Campbell's announcement to freeze home assessments was a ploy to keep assessments high so they could keep the mill rate low next year, so they could say that taxes weren't rising so high, yet still pocketing more money to pay back the 100 mill, if the payout stays hidden. Ladner's attempt to whitewash this with his appearance on Bill Good this morning (Fri.Nov 7) on AM980 was eerily like Colin Hansen's "deer in the headlights" look when he was questioned about the Winter Olympics security budget figures by Vaughn Palmer on Voice Of BC on Shaw cable a week ago, Thursday October 30th. They just keep stepping in it, don't they? And we thought the Fast Cats were bad. Those ferries sitting in the Burrard Inlet are going to end being Campbell's legacy to BC, the way he gave them away to Washington Group. Add that to the 30% Hydro increase to be added by another 13% this January and we got them thieving left and right. Greatest place on earth Gordie? Hope your UBC penthouse condo paid for with BC Rail payola dives like all condos in Vancouver. Or is that the reason he's freezing assessments????

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By: renterskeeprenting

renterskeeprenting — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:08:49 +0000

I think the posters on this site are morons and or simply never owned property in their life and probably never will. The fact is coal harbour, false creek north water front locations are not going to be affected. Most people who own are affluent and there is non of this bs 5 percent down garbage. Most have atleast put down 25% and have a 1500 loan and if they sell they will not take a low ball price. I know hundreds of people in False Creek north who own and have purchased 1 bed or even 2 beds for 400 to 1 million. most of the people i know have 25% debt on the place if that. To you wishfull renters hoping to sabatoge the market and get a deal in the future to you i say .....(middle finger) have a nice day. and you pansys are bitching about paying 160 bucks so our olympic village can be completed and a huge developer who has poured 100s of millions of his own money in to the economy and litterally employes and has paid for tens of thousands of people's living and family costs and you are bitching about 160 bucks per person...I think i need a barff bag...excuse me while i throw up people in false creek spend $160 in a day at urban fair for a pack of gum and some groceries for 2 days.

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By: Mario

Mario — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:09:30 +0000

Here is my opinion - I would strongly recommend that you think twice before purchasing a Millenium developed unit....my colleague purchased one, and has had nothing but trouble. Metrocan construction will not, I repeat will not fix your deficiencies, and have cut so many corners, there are problems with new units....and Metrocan is the same contractor used for the olympic village. If you see the millenium/metrocan partnership, then run the other way... What am I talking about, well, my friends unit wasn't properly plumbed, so feces and urine would leak from the top unit down to his living room. Metrocan's response: This is normal. Millenium, What goes around, comes around!

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By: Disbelief

Disbelief — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:58:54 +0000

Even at $1000/psf you would have to be a chowderhead (idiot) to buy one. And no the value doesn't automatically go up after a steroid monkey top athlete sweats all over it. Maybe the next Olympics Vancouver gets might be worth $1000 psf but in 2008...NOT

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By: Clam Chowderhead

Clam Chowderhead — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:01:30 +0000

Umm wouldn't a frozen rainforest be just a snow forest?? The prices also tops out at $1000/psf not $2500/psf not that it's cheap but it's a real number. Anyways anyone that has read the follow up articles has learned that there is no more issue, the developer will complete on time just not on budget, there is no cost to the taxpayers.

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By: NO -LYMPICS

NO -LYMPICS — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:42:07 +0000

Good point MickeyFinn: Real Estate is simply like any other traded asset. Hence, it is affected by the same market forces of the day ....which in this case is a lot of speculation . Maybe people should read about Holland's tulip speculation a few hundred years ago...oh yeah, Bre-X or Dot.com bomb more recently.

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By: bdk

bdk — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:37:50 +0000

I'm Dave man c'mon man I've got the stuff on me man

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By: patriotz

patriotz — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:51:19 +0000

Dave's not here.

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By: bdk

bdk — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:52:43 +0000

Coincidentally there is no Dave here and Dave's websites latest article was written by his wife Maybe he's taking a vacation from sitting around in coffee shops attempting to skew the cold hard facts by disrupting several blogs simultaneously with his truthiness.

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