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I was on a service call at a condo in Cobourg and asked the property manager about motorcycles and parking. He was a nice old guy and said motorcycles weren't permitted due to the potential of tipping and fuel spills. Then he said "In reality they just don't want them." The place had one...

I thought sickness was covered under employment insurance, 26 weeks @ 55% to a max of $729 / week. Enjoy.

I'd like to see the limitations on a panic stop.

My house is a slightly smaller version of MPs. Side splits are difficult to make into anything else and look / work right, stairs everywhere. Making it right would cost more than tearing it down and building new unless setbacks came into play. The first few conversions set the pace and it...

My 2 cents: Financially, what direction is the neighbourhood going long term? Go with the flow. Don't build a McMansion in a story and a half hood. Don't build a story and a half in a upcoming McMansion hood. 100% for your own long term use, whatever lights your fires.

IMO make shift renos don't attract big buck buyers. Go big or go home. The financial math will be tricky. A friend topped his bungalow and it looked 100% modern from the street, first and second floor. The low basement told the truth.

What scares me is a driver getting charged because they didn't avoid the idiot. A sidewalk: A sidewalk is a paved pedestrian path, typically made of concrete or asphalt, located along the side of a road. They are designed for pedestrian safety, accessibility, and sustainable mobility, often...

A lot of the lockers I see are mesh cages with padlocks and hasps for security, not where I'd keep anything of value. Do many of those 400 SF condos come with parking? Is the builder going to sell you a 400 SF condo and give you 200 SF for your car. It's actually more than another 50% if you...

If I could be satisfied with making wooden things smaller than a bread box I might be able to make it work. How may cuckoo clocks do I need? A friend showed me his battery table saw and in its case it looked like a chubby sewing machine. It was quiet and had an efficient dust control system...

But where do you keep your stuff? Outside of NA do people have more control over buying stuff that needs to be stored instead of investing in activities.

If they were kept off he sidewalks the traffic fear would kill 90% of the market.

Sounds like a coyote roadrunner episode. Beep beep splat

I always think of Albert, a co-worker of many years ago, in cases like this. I never got the whole story from the start but a tiff in a bar, a punch from Albert and the guy goes down, hitting his head never to get up again. Albert is convicted of manslaughter with a few years at Maplehurst out...

I'd be wary of a new condo at any time. One property manager I knew had to sign a demolition order for a new high rise. The geologist goofed on the soil stability. Where do you live for ten years while they sort that out? It wasn't the Millennium Tower, the leaning tower of San Francisco. I...

West GTA. I'm watching one building in particular.

Watch the fork alignment. Out on a ride, one of the participants hammered the brakes and a misalignment, previously un-noticed or ignored, caused her to crash with a minor concussion. After she recovered she said the crash must have fixed the problem because the bike handled better. I'd prefer...

Elevators, underground parking and pools are high maintenance items. Low rise buildings that can get away with hydraulic elevators save over high rise. Land cost in the GTA skews things. Underground parking, particularly multi-level have rebuild issues every few decades. It's a mega industry...

Anyone have a crystal ball on the condo market? Existing building ~ $500 K for 1000 SF. 35 years old. Pictures look good. How does the 500 SF pre-build market affect those? A condo is in our future. When?

If you do the bathrooms into the next century it could make the rest of the house look too old, necessitating doing the rest of the place.

My problem is that my present ICE is probably good for another four years before I have to get something new. The trade in value is pathetic so the energy cost savings don't outweigh the potential travel value. I'd have to add ~$35K to the pot to get one of the Equinox EVs to save ~$2K a year in...