@VMD: http://approvedbuyer.com/real-estate/the-truth-be…

A "Vancouver Special" is one of those gently-pitched tar and gravel roofed, plain vanilla boxy type houses, usually of white stucco and brown wooden trim, built maostly during the 1960's-70's.

Sometimes the front facades were dressed up with faux stone, wooden siding and brick. The really adventurous added to the delight with cheap cement statuary and wrought iron (now aluminum)fencing for the front yard.

The houses often came with a "suite-able" basement AND a balcony for the sliding glass doors at the front living room of the house. No one ever sat out on them, though. They were mostly for "show". Built to maximum density, these houses tended to take up an entire city lot.

There are oodles of them on Vancouver's narrow lots…particularly abundant on the east side and stretching into Burnaby.

$100 hot dog is just a stupid advertising gimmick. please stop helping him promote himself, he isn't giving anyone any value.

First Time Buyer: someone with little knowledge of the real estate industry, it's players and (lack of) ethical conduct; someone inexperienced in buying real estate. A member of a socially vulnerable group including new immigrants or young people. A mark. A sucker.

@VMD, what is an executive house? Seriously.

Here is a prime example of greed and disconnect.

I know someone who lives in the building.

Both suites are almost identical, one has lipstick the other not

http://tinyurl.com/829yrmf http://tinyurl.com/7r8tsc5

Shooting in Vancouver

Man shot in the leg, not cooperating with police

http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article/324369…

If you walk in Vancouver use the zig-zag and roll method so you can avoid the bullets.

Any ideas for shorting the impending Vancouver real estate crash?

I am unsure of the banks, they seem sheltered with most of the risk with the CMHC holding the bag. But they still should get hit with consumer credit, underwriting etc.

Any public construction companies in Canada focused heavily on residential construction Vancouver or Toronto?

Any public furniture companies?

Other ideas? And don't say REITs.

Young Families Pull Up Stakes For Better Life

http://www.theprovince.com/business/Young+familie…

I didn't have time to search if anyone put this up. My wife and I can relate to many of these stories and we too will be moving by mid 2013 if the stars don't align.

@Dante:

When I read that headline I thought "Crap! The police are shooting people now for being uncooperative?"

@Vansanity:

The Vancouver bubble isn't the only reason, or the main one, but it is a significant reason why we have opted to move to Bali for a year. We would like to purchase again in Vancouver but since we can run our businesses remotely, and we are not keen to lose several hundred thousand on real estate in the next few years, we've decided on a little holiday until things return to normal.

"Awesome people, amazing scenery, beautiful houses, perfect weather, world class diving….just watch out for the monkeys, they’re troublemakers."

Cheap houses too. It is a wonder what terrorism and world wide travel advisories can do to real estate prices.

Any ideas for shorting the impending Vancouver real estate crash?

Debt collection agencies are the lowest of the low, but they do well in tough economic times:

http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/apr2…