^^ sadly it's not, buy a town house for $800 and at least you have a Mini yard and some garage space

how does stress test work when you're getting a place with mtg helpers? do they add rental income on or off-site as the income to be tested?

oh... forgot to add; there is a super good solution to this. If your family is willing to live with you and you're not worried about the $300k help, here's another look at things.

It's rare, but you can find places with a house (handfull of my friends are doing this) with separate entrances + 2 kitchens + difference bathrooms. It allows 2 different families to cohabit together WHILE taking care of family and affording a house in this market.

Now, there's a lot of "I don't want to live with your family" or "OH, this is MY house too, I help pay for my son's house" or "Who lives in the 'smaller' side of the house".

It helped 3 of my friend buy a place in Richmond (most of them were upper and lower levels), and of course 3 of them are in Surrey, and one had to custom build their home in Vancouver to do so.

*caution, there will be a bit of conflict when people all come together under the same roof but you get the jist. It's the "cost of doing business"

^^ that’s what we are looking at. My wife and I move in with my mom and dad (only way to afford anything) but also for that free childcare. Actively trying to start a family.

What we would want is to use their DP but not charge them rent and have the cost of living just come out of my wife and I. My mom doesn’t work due to health and my dad is 57, so will be working for at most 10 more years. Guess what our mortgage will be 25-30 years so we would much rather NOT consider any income he brings in towards the mortgage. That way once he retires we don’t end up being screwed. Hope that makes sense

Edit: and yes the wife is in full support. My family is weirdly drama free to the point where it’s odd...

Good thing your clarified, cuz I find in most cases, the wife can live with her parents and the husband doesn’t really care, but if it’s the other way around, the wife cannot stand living with her in-laws...

Nah. Her parents are split penticton/salmon arm and their family has all their own lovely quirks (see how polite I am). If we raise a child it will be much easier with help from my side

So you're saying they're batshit crazy? :badpokerface:

good to see people actually take other options and considerations to afford a home rather than complain that the city is too expensive. sharing with family isnt always ideal but heck it beats living in a 600 sq ft 2 bedroom newly built cage suite.

honestly this is the reason why the van specials are in such high in demand. if you see listings for the late 90's/2000's van specials with 2 mortgage helpers downstairs, those arent going at a drastic discount especially if they are standard 4000 sq ft lot in vancouver.

even though it looks like massey tunnel will finally get a replacement soon (feels like it's been talked about for 15+ years), i think buying east instead of south is still the way to go for burbs life (metro system viability and not just vehicle choke points)

there's much more concrete of plans for extensions eastward than a brand new line south, we only have an airport line because of an event the scale of an expo/olympics

Lolwut. My dads going to an open house today for this place. Damn near a million, 2000sqft 65y/o home in Ladner. What is he thinking. I’ll report back in an hour or two

https://www.rew.ca/properties/R23854...venue-delta-bc

You could get a brand new 2019 home in tswassen for that price (albeit 99y leasehold)


Edit: LLOOOLLL what a joke. That kind of home is maybe worth 400k. It’s exsctly what I thought though. Sold in 2017 or wtv for 980k, owners don’t want to lose money so they’re trying to sell.

Problem is so many people bought homes hoping to make money, now they all want to bail but no one is willing to take a profit hit. Talking with their realtor and mine, no offers, almost no interest

Yeah for sure, the housing market has definitely gone down by 60% on sub $1MM houses...

:heckno:

-Mark

For yall that are buying the new place before selling the old place, how does the mortgage work? Yall just paying the fee to terminate the old mortgage early.

same as the new builds we are looking at. All the builders refuse to lose a friggin penny so now they can sit on their 3.5 million dollar mansions that realistically are selling for 2.3-2.5million. yeah, good luck with that shit.

that 8282 burnlake house still havent found their golden goose. their realtor is saying now they want 2.8 HA! fuck you buddy

What was their asking before? I looked this up and asking is 3.180. It is assessed at about 2.5m. Did you make them an offer before? If so what was it. Curious what happened haha.

600k over assessed asking is indeed reaching super highh though. Crazy

they asked for 2.5 before. i gave them a full offer and they didnt take it. ours was a cash offer too. They wanted a bidding war and i dont think anything came out of it.

industrial/commercial lougheed and doesnt want to take cash at asking in this market?

the greed is too strong

People who lived in that era making 35k a year with their entry level job straight out of high school - “damn millennials don’t want to work, that’s why they can’t afford a place to live. Spend all their money on ifones!”

but food options in vancouver before Expo was probably a joke
might as well live on vancouver island (not saying food options on the island is bad...but there was less draw to a city)

I don’t think good food warrants a 2000% housing increase matched to a 20% median wage increase

Well according to the interwebs, $35,000 in 1979 is equal to $123,691.25 today, so I'd probably have the same sort of mentality if I came out of high school and was landing 6 figure gigs as well :lol

Well there was still the Ovaltine cafe and uhhh... Lee Loy BBQ in Chinatown. :heckno:

Brentwood or Metrotown for long-term living (5 years)?

Metrotown for 5yr window from today onwards.