Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Somebody told me once that when you have children, the years go faster because you start to view your life in terms of your children’s milestones. Growing from age one to age two represents a fifty percent increase in their time on earth, but it’s merely another twelve months for you. My daughter was pulling at my shirt.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Last week, no fewer than seven blog readers emailed me the following article: “Landlords Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Raise Rents Between Tenants, Says Toronto’s Top Housing Official” For what it’s worth, I saw the article on my own too. What are we talking about? But then what?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 25, 2021

“Happy Friday, folks,” is what I might be saying in this space on a normal day. Happy Friday. Andrew and I took the kids there on the weekend after our showing and we couldn’t help but daydream about talking a short half-block walk to this park every night and every weekend. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

I hope you enjoyed that “trip down memory lane,” as Marina so eloquently put it, with the Top Five Blog Posts of 2022 in Monday’s post. Believe it or not, this is the eighth year I’ve been working with this format; the top five blogs followed by the top five posts. That was a year in which Ms.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The following rant… There’s no such thing as “free” when it comes to the services we, in Canada, receive. So here’s where my cynical side comes out: in the last election, all the parties vying for the PMO’s office lined up to talk about “new spending.” The simple reason? But then what?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

As you’ll see in today’s blog, many of the reasons for cancelations are often rooted in the same problems that caused delays, but some are extensions, and some are completely different reasons altogether. TorontoRealtyBlog Sometimes, a delay is just a delay. I see a leopard. No, wait, it’s something else.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

” Hard stop. For example, and I don’t want to sound like a broken record here, but nobody living in London, England would talk about “housing affordability” in the same way as they do in Toronto. ” As I get older, I get much more cynical. But these folks don’t know and don’t care.

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MARCH 6, 2023

I could have called this blog post, “Don’t Call It A Comeback,” but I’ve used that before. TorontoRealtyBlog …we finally got a piece of the pie! So how about a reference from The Jeffersons then? I will admit: I’ve never seen the show. After all, it ran from 1975 to 1985 and I was born in 1980.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 14, 2021

Over the last week, I’ve been bookmarking several newspaper articles in anticipation of writing a long-overdue blog post for which I would basically need to lock myself in my office with complete silence for a full day. Can we have an honest discussion here? Can we, really? April 7, 2021. “Toronto,” I said. .”

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

TorontoRealtyBlog. Do today’s children still benefit from the usage of firearms when attending summer camp? That’s a serious question. This rifle merely fired pellets, but the activity was called “riflery” and these were guns! They had a butt, a stock, a barrel, a muzzle, and most importantly: a trigger.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Today, I want to go back to the theme from last Friday, which I call, “Agents behaving badly.” My goal is to bring to light the business practices that are so commonplace and alert readers to the fact that their agent might be doing exactly what I’m writing about in my blog! Because you don’t know. I really do.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 24, 2021

” The anniversary of the first known case of COVID in Canada was back in January, and we could go back to early-January or even into December if we want to talk about anniversaries of breaking news, or declarations of a “pandemic” worldwide. My wife’s birthday. That’s one I try not to forget. I guess, check.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Often under my breath, or often to somebody I’m talking to. In fact, the reason I’m looking back in hindsight at the debacle at Museum FLTS , now that this litigation has been settled, is because I tried so desperately to stop those involved for wasting their time. Do you remember early-2000’s garage-rock?

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Remember that guy back in high school that was super popular and always got the ladies? I’m asking the gents in here to remember because my follow-up question is this: did you hate him or did you respect him ? Those are your only two options because, in truth, those were really the only two reactions that most guys had. They were all a s.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Not only are my fingers tired from writing Monday’s blog, but also from hand-writing three-hundred Christmas cards! And lots of links to blog posts in each section too. Cards and envelopes! Yes, I do that. I do it with pride. 4) Real Estate Commissions. 3) The Media’s Continued Obsession With The Pending Real Estate Collapse.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

So perhaps I have no leg on which to stand here. “Blogging” is essentially the lowest form of journalism, if you can even call it journalism. Not knowing something, or even worse, not caring , has never been more en vogue. After all, is there any actual news out there anymore? ” I’m a blogger.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Of course, somewhere therein lays topics for blog posts, and today is an example of exactly that. Some of the blog posts I’ve written this month were in response to emails from readers, who often just want to chat about a topic, or point out something they saw that could be of interest to myself and the readers.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

My friend Jeff and I signed up for magic class in the “after-4 program” at Bessborough Public School in 1990, and of course, we were promptly kicked out for being annoying, loud, obnoxious kids who ruined the class for everybody else. This was before the Internet, mind you. This was before the Internet, mind you. All the fluff.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Stop me if you’ve heard this one, since I’m pretty sure I’ve told it before… Last Christmas, my wife bought me this beautiful winter jacket! TorontoRealtyBlog. Two days after Christmas, I was getting ready to leave and I put on my new coat. Then I got out my wallet. I came up blank. This was a men’s coat.

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