Tag Archive for 'just-for-fun'

The Smallest House in Toronto

The Globe and Mail had an article this week about the tiniest house in Toronto. The house is for sale and the current owner only bought the house a few months ago. He renovated the 300 squarefoot cutey and is hoping to make a quick profit. With all the free publicity he is surely going to receive from the Globe and Mail article, I’m sure he will have no trouble selling it, even though some walk-in closets are larger than this home!

Trump Drops the F-bomb on Toronto: Making Money in Real Estate is FUN!

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Wondering why your coworker or classmate is looking a little worse for wear this morning? They might have been running around attending seminars and workshops at the Learning Annex’s Real Estate and Wealth Expo at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre all weekend. Figuring out the quickest way to get rich in only 2 days is tiring stuff, let me tell you.

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Trump Says Toronto is Soft

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Donald Trump, aka The Donald, is taking some time off this weekend from his budding professional wrestling career, his ongoing feud with Rosie O’Donnell, and his humanitarian work to come to Toronto and talk about Real Estate. Trump is the keynote speaker at the upcoming Real Estate and Wealth Expo at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre this Saturday and Sunday.

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Do you Believe in the Insanity of the Toronto Real Estate Market?

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I had been hearing the stories for years. Guy buys a house in Cabbagetown for a song, a few years later it’s worth twice as much as he paid for it. A couple buys a condo on the west side in the pre-construction phase, then sell it upon completion for a ridiculous profit without ever having set foot in the unit.

The Toronto real estate market has been churning out these kinds of stories for about a decade now. Thousands of ordinary people have gotten rich from doing not much more than paying their mortgage every month. When will this wave of unprecedented growth in the market end? What is it going to take to stop the insanity?

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