#6315920 - 05/02/12 10:46 AM
Re: Housing bubble???
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Risky Business
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Fact: IMO, Chinese in general do try hard and keep up with the Jones. A lot of them will buy luxury cars, brand whore clothing/accessories and will buy a nice house...but will have fuck all inside the house since no one can see it.
That's true, what pisses me off about them is they buy houses and put fawking bedsheets in the windows. SO MANY OF THESE FAWKS DO IT, i want to go and choke them out. Make a proper neighbourhood look like fawking sh!t.
We moved back to Markham because it is closer to our parents and the area suits us quite well with our needs (close to FREE highway and shopping).
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#6315962 - 05/02/12 10:57 AM
Re: Housing bubble???
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Hatorade
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meh.. what do i know.. i ain't a home owner
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#6316024 - 05/02/12 11:27 AM
Re: Housing bubble???
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#6316035 - 05/02/12 11:32 AM
Re: Housing bubble???
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this fukking sucks.
we've put in 4 offers and got blasted out of the water.
we are losing our bids on average of about 60-90k.
people w/ too much money or people buying way over their own budget
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#6316227 - 05/02/12 12:40 PM
Re: Housing bubble???
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SW20_MR2
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+1
It's all about keeping up with the Jones for material possessions, not with a house. "Everyone" has a house, so it's the Benzs, Prada bags, etc that make them look like they're the shit. I have yet to see a FOB house that I truly loved on the inside or outside. Pretty much every FOB house is exactly like how they got it from the builder except just filled with crappy furniture.
Dude they don't know any better? Come on, they are just too fucking cheap to spend money on buying proper shit for the house because they are too busy buying the newest fashion trend and paying off their leases for their shiny new MB/BMW/Audi
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#6316237 - 05/02/12 12:43 PM
Re: Housing bubble???
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Risky Business
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^ Don't forget, they are also super anti social and stay inside 100% of the time unless it's to go to work.
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#6316614 - 05/02/12 02:47 PM
Re: Housing bubble???
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A2B-Lexus
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^ Don't forget, they are also super anti social and stay inside 100% of the time unless it's to go to work.
That is because you aren't yellow skin and you don't bbq dog.
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#6327906 - 05/08/12 08:41 AM
Re: Housing bubble???
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Screamin' Type-R
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ChinAr people that are buying here have shitloads of cash. You guys do realize that real estate over there has gone nuts too right? Like Risky said they are the largest bubble right now, but they have also made shitloads of $$$.
ChinAr people buying up homes >$1mil are hardly "rich", they are mere middle class folks from ChinAr.
Fact: IMO, Chinese in general do try hard and keep up with the Jones. A lot of them will buy luxury cars, brand whore clothing/accessories and will buy a nice house...but will have fuck all inside the house since no one can see it.
Like gayrage said, most gravitate due to what is available in the neighborhood and like it or not Markham has become Asian oriented (yellow asian, not the south ones). We moved back to Markham because it is closer to our parents and the area suits us quite well with our needs (close to FREE highway and shopping).
edzachary!
sooooo, if greece and france shit the bed over the next month or two, curious to see IF it even has any impact here to housing itself (more specifically to the hotbed areas), aside from the expected downturn in other areas it'd create.
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#6327931 - 05/08/12 08:49 AM
Re: Housing bubble???
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A2B-Lexus
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I don't think it will be instant....our housing boom at least in Markham is powered by ChinaR. (at least this is what I tell myself as I paint and clean up my condo so I can put it up for sale)
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#6327956 - 05/08/12 08:59 AM
Re: Housing bubble???
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Risky Business
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^ You getting an agent or are you doing private? List asap while it's hot and extend the closing.
I'd try selling private first or use a service like property guys. People are having a lot of success with that.
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#6327978 - 05/08/12 09:04 AM
Re: Housing bubble???
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A2B-Lexus
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Happy Bday RB.
I got a friend who I will be going with. He is only taking 1% for himself so that will save me a couple of Gs. I don't think I can extend the closing to 120 days but I need to make sure I sell as I need to realize my paper gains. (I am not one of those silver chopstick lucky fob Azns) There is a slightly newer, about the same size, bachelor unit, same builder, in my area going for $237,500...if I get 230,000 before commissions, I'd be happy.
I am tempted to get my friend to keep his standard commission and when we find a buyer, I'll get him to get the other realtor to split the reduction in commission.
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#6328000 - 05/08/12 09:20 AM
Re: Housing bubble???
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Risky Business
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Thanks.
That's nice of your buddy to just take a point. You should still push for the other agent to take a haircut as well 
Depending on how many showings/work he has to do, maybe slip him 500 cash after as a "present".
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#6328005 - 05/08/12 09:21 AM
Re: Housing bubble???
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A2B-Lexus
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My buddy was pretty nice. I got him to show me around when I was looking at resale houses so the least I can do is to have him make some $$$ when I sell my pad. I didn't even ask him to reduce his commission.
That is what I am thinking about reducing the other agent's commission...make the other agent earn his sale.
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#6328102 - 05/08/12 09:59 AM
Re: Housing bubble???
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Eddie_82
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I wonder what demographic they're trying to sell to?
http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?propertyId=11797230&PidKey=893935435
Also... what's the deal with middle-of-the-week open houses? I drove by a rather posh area this morning and saw a bunch of open house signs. On a Tuesday? I guess people buying million-dollar-homes aren't working 9-5 M-F and can attend these kinds of things. Or the agents are just bored.
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#6328118 - 05/08/12 10:08 AM
Re: Housing bubble???
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A2B-Lexus
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That place is kinda underwelming for 12 foot ceilings.
$888,888 would suggest they are looking for attention from the Chinese but house # 52 with Cantonese sounds pretty close to "not easy"...haha..so, not as bad as having a "4" but if people are silly enough to not go for a house with #4, they may stay away from "52" for the same stupid reason.
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#6328137 - 05/08/12 10:15 AM
Re: Housing bubble???
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Risky Business
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That house is pretty cheap considering the size.
Looks like sh!t inside.
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#6328154 - 05/08/12 10:20 AM
Re: Housing bubble???
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phoenixrage
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but house # 52 with Cantonese sounds pretty close to "not easy"...haha..so, not as bad as having a "4" but if people are silly enough to not go for a house with #4, they may stay away from "52" for the same stupid reason. And this is from the people who brought you powdered babies to fend off illness.
numerology exists in many other cultures... [/sarcasm meter broken]
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#6328208 - 05/08/12 10:47 AM
Re: Housing bubble???
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A2B-Lexus
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The garbage furniture that is in there probably isn't cheap. I rather see bare walls than shit that the guy put in it. It looks like they got it at the Queen's garage sale.
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#6328384 - 05/08/12 11:41 AM
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#6328447 - 05/08/12 11:56 AM
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JEFFOS
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Houses in the west end don't seem to be getting cheaper at all yet
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