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thing is, investors can make money with or without tenants. rental investment property doesn't really generate positive cash flow anymore, but it does help minimize forking out more money even though you are essentially paying someone to live in your condo. but sitting on the condo for a year or...

Being a world class exactly means that average joe will not be able to buy 2 bedroom condo with 20% down and make positive cash flow. Try finding that in Manhattan or Hong Kong, you certainly will not find it with a $55,000 CDN/yr average salary. Beginning to be the same in Toronto. Is an...

This just happened to my family and maybe this can be attributed to the jump in housing prices again this year by about 10%. I am not sure if this is done in the past, but here's my story. My family is selling our house (asking $600,000) and we had an interested buyer offered to buy our house...

any news if Toronto is going to bid for 2020?

I think the only chance of building the Stadium on Portlands is winning the 2020 Olympics. Previous Olympics bid plans have the stadium there. So if they win the bid, they have a stadium to get an NFL team.

ahh i see that you mean now. yea, the accessibility train was always the front/end train. that wouldn't be ideal if elevators in the middle of the platform

when I was in Germany (forgot which city), they had a specific train for assessibility and marking on the platform. they need the operator to put a ramp for the people in wheel chair to get on. i thought that was fine. you really dont need accessibility to all trains. just ones that are closest...

Just to add to this discussion, LEED encourages design of buildings with main entrances that are 400 m (1/2 mile) to 1 or more bus stops serving at least 2 or more bus lines in total with frequent services (~30-45 min), or 800 m (1/2 mile) to a rapid transit station (not including BRT). I think...

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i think the better way is to tax car parking spots in condos. the whole point of this one-year metro pass is to get ppl from car-to-TTC. so why affect those who walk or bike? there are different (and better) ways to achieve the same goal

building integrated wind turbine =/= rooftop mounted wind turbine. but doesn't the Bahrain WTC count as building integrated wind turbine?

Hi there, I'm new to UT but I've been living in Markham for the past 15 years. I'm a young professional now and looking to purchase a condo in the Downtown Markham area. This project, Uptown Markham by Times Group, is really interesting to me. Good location and close to the Futureshop/NoFrills...