Vancouver's Real Estate Market

[Badhobz]

Originally Posted by RabidRat

I think this could be why it's helpful to invest in the relationship and force a friendship with the neighbors.

if you were my neighbor id constantly fuck with you and your house. id TP your house, id decorate your exterior with pornhub swag, id generally dao dan the shit out of you.

[Great68]

I found the best trick to neighbour relations is to be that helpful neighbour, with all the tools/equipment.

Helped the neighbour across the street wire his backyard office he built a couple years ago, helped the two immediate next door neighbours with the odd electrical wiring thing (installed a heater for one, and fixed a miswired light fixture for the other).

Kiddy-corner backyard neighbour has borrowed my lawnmower when his shit the bed (he bought an new electric one since) and borrowed my pressure washer a couple times.

I have one annoying Karen neighbour (Her name is literally Karen) who is next to kiddy-corner backyard neighbour. Apparently is a "call the city complainer", everyone in the neighborhood hates her.
(just called a noise complaint on kiddy-corner backyard neighbour about dog barking INSIDE the house). They're slightly up a hill and like to have a fire table and drink every night in the summer on their balcony, which is about 200ft as the crow flies to my house.

About 6 years ago I refinished my deck, sanding all 500sqft on my hands & knees with a belt sander. Took me 4 consecutive weekends, I'd work about 4 hours each saturday/sunday. Literally on the last weekend, saturday morning there was a passive agressive note in my mailbox, "Can you please limit your sanding to 1 hour a day". Lol no.
Anyways on Sunday I finished up, I noticed them pacing about on their balcony. I turn off the sander and shop vac for the last time, remove my earplugs and she shouts out "ARE YOU DONE YET?!?!"

I yell back "YOU BET!"

Her: "FOR HOW LONG?"

Me: "HOPEFULLY FOR 10 MORE YEARS, THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE!"

Later in the week I'd casually talk to my more immediate next door neighbors and ask them if they had any problems with my sanding noise, all of them were like "No, not at all!, do what you need to, Karen is crazy"

[mikemhg]

Originally Posted by RabidRat

...I say again, Mike for public office. Justice for all!

holding a fucking hammer that's amazing

No justice, no peace

[EvoFire]

Originally Posted by Great68

I found the best trick to neighbour relations is to be that helpful neighbour, with all the tools/equipment.

Helped the neighbour across the street wire his backyard office he built a couple years ago, helped the two immediate next door neighbours with the odd electrical wiring thing (installed a heater for one, and fixed a miswired light fixture for the other).

Kiddy-corner backyard neighbour has borrowed my lawnmower when his shit the bed (he bought an new electric one since) and borrowed my pressure washer a couple times.

I have one annoying Karen neighbour (Her name is literally Karen) who is next to kiddy-corner backyard neighbour. Apparently is a "call the city complainer", everyone in the neighborhood hates her.
(just called a noise complaint on kiddy-corner backyard neighbour about dog barking INSIDE the house). They're slightly up a hill and like to have a fire table and drink every night in the summer on their balcony, which is about 200ft as the crow flies to my house.

About 6 years ago I refinished my deck, sanding all 500sqft on my hands & knees with a belt sander. Took me 4 consecutive weekends, I'd work about 4 hours each saturday/sunday. Literally on the last weekend, saturday morning there was a passive agressive note in my mailbox, "Can you please limit your sanding to 1 hour a day". Lol no.
Anyways on Sunday I finished up, I noticed them pacing about on their balcony. I turn off the sander and shop vac for the last time, remove my earplugs and she shouts out "ARE YOU DONE YET?!?!"

I yell back "YOU BET!"

Her: "FOR HOW LONG?"

Me: "HOPEFULLY FOR 10 MORE YEARS, THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE!"

Later in the week I'd casually talk to my more immediate next door neighbors and ask them if they had any problems with my sanding noise, all of them were like "No, not at all!, do what you need to, Karen is crazy"

I've got a good relationship with all 4 neighbours that immediately border beside and behind my house.

I let my neighbours know when I bought that we'll be doing renos for the next year and please excuse us for all the noise and people coming and going.

The elderly Filipino couple next door asked me a few weeks ago to help them with their plumbing issues as they figured I would know where the pipes run through the house (we have twin houses).

One of the houses behind me has a car guy. Drives a G wagen most of the time but also has a TRX and 1M he drives in every now and then.

The other side is a teacher with twins and we share news on events with the kids.

It's honestly been great. Now if I had a Badhobz next to me constantly telling me to buy a Lexus, I might have to burn his Lexii down.

[Badhobz]

I’d troll you nonstop (did you buy a RX yet ? It’s the prescription to your problem!) . We’d have a great time. Until feelings get hurt and then we street fight with my e-Honda like moves. The wives would be furious. They don’t take kindly to practical jokes.

[RabidRat]

Originally Posted by Badhobz

if you were my neighbor id constantly fuck with you and your house. id TP your house, id decorate your exterior with pornhub swag, id generally dao dan the shit out of you.

That's it. I'm gonna shove my recycling so far into your garbage can: I'm not even going to break it down. Whole boxes, right in there. Take it!!!!!!

[underscore]

Originally Posted by unit

ive found a bit of random trash in our bins on collection day from passerbyers but nothing egregious. if it were my neighbours tenants thing or whatever, i wouldnt care at all so long as it doesn't take much space.. i'd never ever ask my neighbour to pick it out and put it in his bin...

The only time I've even noticed something in my bin it was because my neighbour had actually moved it to the curb and put a massive bag in it that filled the entire thing. I pulled it out and threw it into their driveway behind one of their cars cause that's ridiculous.

They were assholes though. They had regular loud outdoor parties on weeknights past 2am and after they moved away my cars stopped getting broken into so I'm pretty sure it was them or one of their friends doing it. When I had my YJ with the soft top I just left it unlocked and I'd come out to the door left open about once a week.

[bcrdukes]

Originally Posted by RabidRat

That's it. I'm gonna shove my recycling so far into your garbage can: I'm not even going to break it down. Whole boxes, right in there. Take it!!!!!!

Mayor Olivia Chow did half of Badhobz bidding by not even picking up recycling.

[SSM_DC5]

Are double windowsills a new design thing?


For this particular window, the roughed in area looks huge, but the actual window is much smaller. Last minute change or designed like that from the start?


Provisions for wall mounted tv is nice, but how does the mount get mounted? On that wood trim? Or perhaps the space between fireplace and outlet then pray your tv is large enough to cover up the big cubby hole.


Shady sink in this room isn't in the floor plan definitely not for an illegal suite after you buy the place and DIY the reno. they even put double fresh air intakes in the same room, one is conveniently right above the sink


Sauce: https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/2...avenue-burnaby

[JDMDreams]

I wonder if those balcony's are requirements? You can barely open the door and stand outside what's the point. Such a waste of space. Also the garage is so narrow, can you even park two cars, there's no space between the wall and the garage door opening. I wonder if you have the inner units can you park 2 more cars on the driveway

[Gerbs]

Quoted a basement reno at my mom's place, 1996 typical house.

Around $20-35K. Anyone have good advice for how to do this cost effectively for potential rental and future live-in?

Last person smoked in washroom fucked it up

[Gumby]

That double windowsill thing totally looks like a last minute change to me. But if you ask the realtor, they will say it's a feature! The wall doesn't look like it can structurally support the full window.

Agreed with the tiny balconies - why even bother? And the sketchy sink?

[GS8]

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[JDMDreams]

WE nEeD AfForDaBle HoMes!

I'm surprised the city allowed them to cut down all the trees

[EvoFire]

Originally Posted by GS8

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After

So the city took some of the land back and built a bigger lane?

[GLOW]

Originally Posted by EvoFire

So the city took some of the land back and built a bigger lane?

if so that godfather pic is highly applicable.

[Hehe]

All these annoying neighbours posts... you guys should just move further out and no more Karen.

The lady next door can be whatever bitch Karen she wants to be, she ain't hearing shit when our nearest point between 2 houses is 60mt+

[underscore]

I feel bad for the people who live next to those. It's bad enough having to live next to a construction site for ages, then when it's done you have this monstrosity looming over your property that doesn't match the style of the neighbourhood at all.

Originally Posted by SSM_DC5

Provisions for wall mounted tv is nice, but how does the mount get mounted? On that wood trim? Or perhaps the space between fireplace and outlet then pray your tv is large enough to cover up the big cubby hole.

If it was done right you get an articulating mount and attach the base to the back of the cubby. You're gonna want a mantel to direct some of the heat away from the TV though.

The window thing just looks like someone cheaped out on a window replacement lol.

[supafamous]

Originally Posted by EvoFire

So the city took some of the land back and built a bigger lane?

The lot is only 49' wide, the same as the house next to it so I think the city didn't take back the land so much as they cleaned up their land (where the trees were). Burnaby doesn't have much in the way of tree protection policies like Vancouver - they will let you cut every tree down on a lot with no replacements required. This happened to my lot when my house was built - it sucks since there's no tree cover now and the general feel of the neighbourhood becomes really sterile (Vancouver neighbourhoods are way nicer).

Originally Posted by underscore

I feel bad for the people who live next to those. It's bad enough having to live next to a construction site for ages, then when it's done you have this monstrosity looming over your property that doesn't match the style of the neighbourhood at all.

I think that's a short term problem though - these larger forms of housing are inevitable and in Burnaby the transition is going to be more painful b/c of how much they resisted even basic upgrades in zoning. At least in Vancouver we gradually went from 1 story to 2 story to 2.5 story to 3 stories and now 4 so the neighbourhoods gradually evolved - you get a 80's Van special next to a 2.5 story 90's Van special next to a 3 story duplex etc. It looks pretty natural and nothing looms over anyone too much.

Burnaby FAFO with zoning - they ignored basic housing needs for decades and eventually the province dropped the hammer on them (along with all cities) and now they'll go from 1 story buildings to 4 stories (they've since rolled it back to just 3 stories). I have little sympathy for Burnaby's situation - they should have been doing what Vancouver did instead of dragging their feet on everything from legal suites to duplexes to incremental increases in density each decade.

[GLOW]

Originally Posted by Hehe

All these annoying neighbours posts... you guys should just move further out and no more Karen.

The lady next door can be whatever bitch Karen she wants to be, she ain't hearing shit when our nearest point between 2 houses is 60mt+

we all just need to hang more aluminum pie pans outside

[SSM_DC5]

Originally Posted by Gerbs

Quoted a basement reno at my mom's place, 1996 typical house.

Around $20-35K. Anyone have good advice for how to do this cost effectively for potential rental and future live-in?

Last person smoked in washroom fucked it up

Need a little more detail.
Exactly how is your basement fucked up?
20-35k for a washroom only sounds fucked up. I would have expected more like 7k to gut and redo whole bathroom.

[Gerbs]

Originally Posted by SSM_DC5

Need a little more detail.
Exactly how is your basement fucked up?
20-35k for a washroom only sounds fucked up. I would have expected more like 7k to gut and redo whole bathroom.

- Wall Tiles
- Floor
- New ceiling drywall
- Repaint could probably get rid of smoke stains
- New door + framing, it's brown
- New sink / toilet
- New outside window vent area (basement) + tiling for that area

- Probably do a standup shower no tub

[Harvey Specter]

Whats the total sqft?

[SSM_DC5]

For browning and smells. A GC has told me that that KILZ is THE paint to use. Covers it all up! Would save you tons if you just paint vs replacing.

[unit]

Originally Posted by SSM_DC5

browning and smells