Feel free to rant man, I totally agree with you, you spend time and hard earned money improving and keeping your house in good repair, only to have any benifit from that stolen from you at the last minute, because a political party can’t or won’t be monetarily responsible for its mistakes or deliberate actions.
When I came to Canada and bought our first car, I was shocked that every time a second hand car is sold and bought here you still have to pay frigging taxes on the purchase, it’s just not right.
A house is an investment for retirement, god knows you can’t make any money off any savings you try and keep in the bank. Most can’t save with wages that are below a livable wage, so you are having to rely on down sizing your house and living off the equity.
Unless you are able to sling loads of money into a private pension, which is also taxed again when you get it, your screwed, as government pensions are only good for politicians. Makes you want to cry at the unfairness of it all.
Thanks man. It’s getting tougher the older I get. I have 4 years and 7 months left on my mortgage and than we own the darn thing. That means both houses are paid off. I figure working till 65 will allow me to pay 10 years of mortgage payments into a savings of some sort. Told my wife since we are so used to paying it all these years that we might as well keep making the payments but to ourselves and not a bank. With that 10 years of savings and the money from my main house we should be good. Fingers crossed anyway
I am happy to hear that. We had a 30 year mortgage when we bought this house, 13 years ago, did an excelerated by weekly payment and added an extra $50 a payment, which has almost halved the time left on it. That extra 100 every 4 weeks makes a big difference.
If your not going to miss that money, that’s probably the best thing to do with it other than re invest in your properties but no point in doing that if this equity tax goes through.
The other reason I am very interested in this new property is the potential for an income from building some smallish cabins on the river front, that could be rented out for vacation’s.
The river I just found out, is one of the best salmon rivers in NS although most have declining population’s due to acid rain and commercial over fishing. This area also has some of the nicest beaches here as well and only 10 to 15 minutes away. They also do white water rafting further up, where it’s narrower, it gets quite wide at the bit that’s on the property as it goes about another 25k towards the sea.
Been snowing over here also. One minute the sun is blazing then the next it’s coming down from the heavens. Temperature is up and down like a whores knickers.
All this wibbly-wobbly weather jumps are stressing out my old house. We’re looking at a new roof this year as the weather is so dramatic now by comparison to the houses history that it’s almost like “shoring up” for the future “incoming”…
That’s pretty much like here during spring time although we don’t really get spring, it just goes from cold and wet to hot and humid in a 2 week period near July lol.
It really messes with my plants trying to keep it all under control with the big swings in temp and RH.
We have had a few nice days in double digit temp’s just to tease you into thinking it’s warming up, then it’s right back into winter again lol.
We might have to re shingle this house it’s not bad, none have the edges curling up yet, just doing that black streaking marks half way down a couple of bits on the roof on one side. I was hoping to lose a few shingles in the last heavy winds so the roof could be re shingled on the house insurance lol.
Probably be close to 10,000 to re shingle, as I can’t do it now like I would have, not even sure how much a pack of shingles cost now, but I have ex work buddies who would give me a deal for cash for the labour side of it.
I have 3 quotes for this for this spring Buckling badly over the bedroom, and the guy that did the roof in the early 2000’s ripped off my fam and DIDN’T install roof vents on the top floor of the house!!! ( I had assumed I just didn’t see them…)
I just looked at the price for quality shingles it’s about $2 a Sq ft plus 15% taxes on top, so closer to 15,000 I would say now, provided none of the plywood needs replacing, 3 or 4 guys could strip it in 1 to 2 days, and then 2 to 3 days to re shingle. That’s more than I thought it would be, shingles have more than doubled in price since I built my workshop in 2014.
Man that’s a bummer, just what you don’t need happening in winter.
Our heat pump is old, another reason to get out of this house before it dies lol. I was quoted $22,000 for a new one a couple of years ago when I thought it was on its way out.
It doesn’t work if the temp drops further than minus 10, it goes on auxiliary heat, using 11kw an hour ffs, I switch over to individual infra red heaters when that happens, they only use 6kw an hour to heat this place. Kind of screwed when your only source of heat is electric and why the next house needs a wood stove as well as a heat pump, although most modern heat pumps work to minus 20 now, which would be fine for this house here, as it rarely gets that cold without the wind chill but if the power goes out we freeze.
Bit of a dissapointing day today, took a trip to see that house and do a bit of metal detecting on Crescent beach 20 minutes away.
The dog in her excitement to get out the house fell down the last 2 steps and messed her hip up. So I had to carry her to the car and forgot to go back for the metal detector that I had to put down to carry the dog
The house looks quite run down from the outside covered in green moss on the north side, the so called garage has no garage doors and most of the windows are broken, really needs pulling down.
There a 3 houses very close behind it and a 1/4 of the front yard has water sitting on it, so the water table is obviously high. The river bank is a lot narrower than it looks in the pics and pretty steep so no opportunity to utilise that.
I would not pay more than 200k for it with all the work it would need pulling down the shack garage and building a new garage.
Other than that it was a really nice walk on the beach, in plus 11C and sunshine, the dog managed to recover enough to only need carrying the last 800 meters back to the car, after walking about 2k.
I can’t believe it’s going to be minus 1C and 10 to15 cm of snow tomorrow
You’re into metal detecting? I bought the ol lady one for Xmas she hasn’t used it yet, or probably will ever, even tho she said she always wanted one…
Maybe someday we go detecting together, that is if ya go back and find yours, that is…
Surprising how misleading the listings can be eh ? We’ve been house hunting too, a lot of the ones that looked great on paper were terrible in person. There’s some pretty clever photographers out there.
Yeah, that sounds good, it was left inside the house luckily, couldn’t believe it when I opened the trunk and it was not there, complete brain fog lol, I was really looking forward to using it somewhere there may actually be something interesting to dig up instead of nails, screws and bits of rebarr in the back yard lol.
In your wife’s defense it’s not really been the weather yet to enjoy going out and using it without freezing your ass off or digging in the ground that’s like concrete from the frost layer still in it below a few inches up until a couple of weeks ago
I think they must get special training in realtor school on how to take pictures that sucker people into viewing properties lol.
It was like looking at a completely different property. Shame as the inside looks so nice but then again who knows without seeing it with your own eyes lol.
It takes the pressure off getting this place sorted out in a rush as I still have some stuff to do, to tidy it up.
I can’t express how hard I laugh at some of these photos shown. All I see are the tricks, the most common being using the widest lens possible to make a space seem HUGE versus reality. Often they push it right to the edge of optical distortion or just slightly into it which can be corrected in post production.
This combined with shooting location makes be shart laughing sometimes…
I mean, physics dictate that based on the items and walls in the room; this person is shooting from INSIDE A WALL… so I’m guessing they are outside shooting inside through a window to increase the field of view from the camera’s perspective… which is a solid “cheat” for cinema/photography but rude to the person being lied to about the size of their new-to-them home.
I often wonder that myself, I think they must put the camera on a tripod as close to the wall as possible and use a remote to take the pic. Surprising how many drone shots I now see on property sales.
Back to winter today glad I didn’t put the snow blower away or change the winter tires yet on the car.
Buckling badly over the bedroom, and the guy that did the roof in the early 2000’s ripped off my fam and DIDN’T install roof vents on the top floor of the house!!! 
( I had assumed I just didn’t see them…)
glad I didn’t put the snow blower away or change the winter tires yet on the car.