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Not seniors hanging out at the food court at 9am, drinking coffee, talking about how great the Socreds were before going to the library and then Ricky’s for a late Dinner at 2:30pm, giving you enough time to get home for wheel of fortune and jeopardy starting at 7pm

Woodwards building is empty! Rents are dropping, more speculative units are entering the market as cheap rentals. L’Aria on Robson has already dropped to the $1300 for BRAND NEW, so watch for vacancies to swell in the surrounding buildings as people upgrade to better and cheaper units. Watch for a flood of units at the Mondrian, Pinnacle, Miro, Gallery, YTP, Savoy etc. etc. as anyone paying $1300 can go brand new now.

It won’t be the tenants that ruin these buildings it’ll be the amateur landlords who’ll fail to screen the tenants or turn a blind eye to bad things (like old men from Richmond coming to get the cut rate massage from a girl who he’d prefer were deported)

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I find the ugliness you constantly spew from your soul fascinating. Do you come here because it’s a safe space? I can’t imagine your wife (if she’s still around and didn’t run for the hills long ago) would put up with a fraction of the behaviour you exhibit here unless she’s as horrible as you. I imagine your kids are pretty tired of hearing you rail on and on about immigrants and unions, particularly since chances are good they have a lot of immigrant friends, even (dare I say) a refugee acquaintance or two.

So why DO you have such ugliness in your soul Grampy? You seem to have money and to have done fairly well for yourself, yet clearly you have a great deal of ugliness and rage built up internally. You clearly have a need to spread that rage and ugliness far and wide. You hate so many people and groups it’s astonishing.

Part of it has to be greed. It’s pretty clear you got yours and you want to keep as much wealth as you can. In that, you are no different from the greediest flipper or realtor. Hell, I suspect you could give Rennie a run for his money. Actually your homophobic and scatological rage toward Rennie smacks of jealousy. Do you hate that he’s wealthier then you or are you just another closeted old man who missed his chance to be with another guy?

That would certainly explain a lot.

So what’s it all about Grampy? If you’ve done so well for yourself, why do you feel the need to express yourself in such an astonishingly ugly way? Do you not know any better? Is it pathological? Is it early onset Alzheimer’s? Are you angry you missed a chance to be openly gay?

I’m dying to know.

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In fact you will find most racist parties also favour more state control over the economy, price controls, restrictions on imports etc.

That’s called “fascism”. Not what most people, especially leftists, consider “left-wing”.

Basically, the whole right wing – left wing definition breaks down under any scrutiny.

No it doesn’t. Left-wingers are those who advocate more equal distribution of wealth and equal rights for the dispossessed. Of course there are many different ways to try to do this, but that’s what they have in common. People who try to associate other attributes are trying to discredit them by association.

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A friend has rented a unit there for the past year at $1600.00/month. (Brand new last August).

I had to laugh when I saw an ad posted for a suite for sale on the front door of the building. The owner offered it for the measly sum of $510K “today only”. (“Discounted” by about 30K, I think).

The WHOLE Nahanni/Sahalee/Klahanie area is crawling with 20 – somethings who are bunkin’ to save $$$ (and bonkin’?) in the units that failed to sell.

“Massive” flips that flopped. Oh well.

Did I say massive?

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Actually you would be referring to the WHTO-OF index, otherwise known as We Had The Olympics – Oh Fuck

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More sheep to the slaughter. I have been reading of another developer wannabe who made money in an up market but has never seen a real down market. They’re all experts til the shit hits the fan, as it’s doing now.

To quote the kid, “it will be a learning experience”. You got that right junior, a very large one.

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http://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc100726.htm

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It’s a shame the WHTO* index is now defunct. I always found that one a sure bet for confirming prices were about to explode.

*WHTO – We Have The Olympics

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Sure, the WHTO index still exists, but it’s a negative one:

WHTO — We HAD the Olympics.

Now we HAVE to pay for the party.

Provincial government has so far introduced the following tools to pay for it: HST, on-line gambling. There’s gotta be more coming….Yikes!

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Trudeau and Lalonde overcame the objections by creating hundreds of small constituencies in southern Ontario and stuffing them with new immigrants beholden on them for welfare and promises. Trudeau came out west once and got ridden out on a rail because people here were much more aware of the political scam that hw eas trying to pull over on them. He did manage to create a Liberal seat in South Vancouver using the immigrant dumping strategy with the radical terrorist Sikhs as his willing allies. They tried again with Chinese but they turned on him when they realised what his tax policies would do to their fortunes. The PC cunts have never grown further than the bastions of the union halls since in the west, with the exception of the super flakes in teaching positions at the Universities. Politically the PC’s are well entrenched but are slowly being moved aside by a balanced national democracy.

The PC cunts of today grew up drinking this PC kool aid in the union run schools resulting in the brainwashing and indoctrination of a subset of assholes who support the labels and diatribe that has been stuffed down their gullible throats. To me, its as if I’m living millions of years ago, listening to the dinosaurs stumbling into the tar pits. In a generation we’ll see a Canada for Canadians. It will first take washing the PC cunts out of Ottawa and the senate to finally get rid of the crazy ideas of the seventies Liberal Party.

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Tell me something Grampy, if all those brown cultures are violent and homophobic, and you yourself are violent and homophobic (which clearly you are) then what makes you any better then them?

And more importantly if you hate Canada, BC and Van as violently as you obviously do then why on earth are you still living there?I mean plainly you hate:

Unions, government workers, immigrants (at least the ones not willing to work for pennies in place of unionized workers), city hall, and gays and lesbians. So…. who don’t you hate, exactly? Who exactly do you see as contributing to society except for you yourself?

It’s one thing to bitch incessantly Gramps, it’s another to find good in the world, a feat you’re plaingly not capable of accomplishing.

In the end I wasn’t happy in Vancouver, so I left and found a better life somewhere else. YOu can call me whatever names you like, you horrible black – hearted old bastard, but I made my choice and I’m happy.

Why don’t you do the same?

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“Enjoy the weather all”.

Indeed I will. Summer in Vancouver is always the 3 best weeks of the year.

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The Political Compass attempts -with some success I think- to fix things.

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Thinks he can flip a 200 to 250K condo in this market in a years time.
I knew BC bud is good, but THIS good?

Constantly amazed at how many amateur flippers there are.
Take one guy I know. Buys a fixer upper house for 650.
Spends every weekend for 6 months fixing it up.
Figure he spent about 60 thou more in materials.
He sells this thing for 730 and he thinks he’s made money?
OMFG. Punch this thing into Excel you idiot.
Realtor takes 50. Interest is another 10.
He tied up his downpayment 6 months.

Ya buddy, congrats on losing 6 months of your life and over 40 thou.
We need more flippers like you operating in this market.

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It’s a shame the WHTO* index is now defunct. I always found that one a sure bet for confirming prices were about to explode.

*WHTO – We Have The Olympics

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“This site is becoming a magnet for a few right-wing racist crack-pots.”

Not to be pedantic but it’s a myth that one has to be right wing to racist. The BNP is picking up support in the UK from disaffected Labour supporters while the KKK and France’s Le Pen are backed mostly by economic nationalists.

In fact you will find most racist parties also favour more state control over the economy, price controls, restrictions on imports etc.

Basically, the whole right wing – left wing definition breaks down under any scrutiny. They should be junked as political adjectives.

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I see this as another RE canary in the mine.

You hvae a combination of those who drove up the price, the family cabin has been inherited by squabling family members, as well as probate fees and capital gains, and everything in between. Then you have the Islands trust, etc.

These paradises lose their appeal after a while.

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Screw that, I’m off to the beach. Enjoy the weather all (as it will be miserable again in a month or two).

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http://www.propertywire.com/ne.....74288.html

This is a fact worldwide, deflation has hit. In the weaker economies it is obvious, for the higher taxed regions we are on lifesupport, but we know whats coming. How long can people here continue to pay ever escalting taxation to governments that want to push the notion that ‘its differant here’. I see the government here in an all out fight to control the message, so far a majority of idiots are drinking the kool aid.

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another place i was at i asked the realtor what % of his clients put 20% down or more. he said a lot of his clients where overseas so they put down 35% or more due to regulations. so i asked what about the locals, and he said locals usually put 10% down. asked why he said they would rather eat the penalty and invest the rest of the money since rates are so low. i also asked how’s business and he said its “busy”. am i inclined to believe him, well…

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Here’s 100 open houses to get you all started.

http://www.mls.ca/map.aspx?&am.....;curView:0;

Remember, be safe out there. And no double-deckers please.

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BTW does anyone know what the total inventory is?

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