Is that a sky shark?Looking over my photo gallery from the 2 week vacation and I found one more to share. How about this???View attachment 870518
Is that because of a population decrease or what? How strange that it would just stagnate like that. We have a housing crisis over here. So many people are without homes, but as you said, the average buyer is priced out of the market. The experts are saying we need to build so many hundred thousand homes per year to solve the problem by like 2030, but all the new houses they are building are luxury apartments and such, not homes for the starter or the average. You pretty much need 2 full time earners with good salaries to buy a house here right now. My husband has a masters degree in Engineering and we can barely afford our small 3 bedroom home that's meant for a starter. It's really bad. And the majority of houses are being bought up by people who want to flip them so they can get rich by selling them at exhorbitant prices. So the new builds don't help the housing crises. I saw that one city passed legislation that only like 15% of the new builds could be bought by people who didn't intend to live there themselves, but that's just one city. People are stuck in relationships because they can't afford to leave because they'd have nowhere to live, students with masters degrees end up living back at home with their parents because there's nowhere for them to go. They said last week or so that the cost of an average starter home right now is half a million, which...who has that as a starter?With this company - 8 1/2 years.
On this particular site with this particular builder (you go where the brokerage has contracts) - only 13 months.
The Builder is not the problem (he’s insanely difficult, but he likes me, so we get along), the problems lie elsewhere.
The market is dead, with no sign of recovery anytime soon. Builders are going bankrupt, houses aren’t appraising and buyers are losing their life savings, the investors are gone, and the average family has been priced out of the market.
The numbers, according to Google:
A mere 310 new home sales were recorded across the entire GTA in April — the seventh consecutive month that saw sales hit historic lows, surpassing the infamous 1990 downturn. For context, a typical April would historically see around 2,750 new home sales, according to the latest data from the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD).
Compared to last year, sales were down 72% in April and sat 89% below the 10-year average. The majority of sales were made up of new single-family homes, which totalled 205 sales, sliding 66% year over year. New condos made up the remaining 105 sales, a bleak 80% drop from April 2024 and 94% below the 10-year average.
Glad you all made it home safely.Hi @MinnieM123 ! I am up early because of jet lag. I went to bed at 9:30pm last and woke up at 4:18am. I trues to get back to sleep but at 5am I gave up. How has been your summer thus far?
I am tired of air travel and am thinking next summer I would like to plan to drive my wife and I out of NJ by heading north/ north east to Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Nova Scotia, etc. Any feedback or suggestions regarding this very casual and not yet researched idea? Also Acadia National Park is up that way. Even the Candian province of New Brunswick. I would happy to hear everyone's thoughts on this idea but I am starting with Minnie because she lives in Massachusetts. @JenniferS would be a logical resource for me as well, please. Thanks. (Back to my post here to add that I just posted my future travel question on the appropriate forum on Tripadvisor. If anyone here wants to give feedback I'd be grateful but there is no pressure to do so. There will be plenty of people giving me feedback on Tripadvisor.)Glad you all made it home safely.
It's hard to adjust to different time zones. I'll bet tonight, you'll sleep your usual hours.
No plans for summer -- not a hot weather fan. All the other seasons are fine with me!
Steve, because you and your wife know what you like to do on vacation (and you also travel in the summer), I thought the best thing was to list vacation web sites below (for all those states you mentioned above), that might be helpful to your own preferences. (I've never been to Nova Scotia, so no suggested web site.)I am tired of air travel and am thinking next summer I would like to plan to drive my wife and I out of NJ by heading north/ north east to Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Nova Scotia, etc. Any feedback or suggestions regarding this very casual and not yet researched idea? Also Acadia National Park is up that way. Even the Candian province of New Brunswick. I would happy to hear everyone's thoughts on this idea but I am starting with Minnie because she lives in Massachusetts. @JenniferS would be a logical resource for me as well, please. Thanks. (Back to my post here to add that I just posted my future travel question on the appropriate forum on Tripadvisor. If anyone here wants to give feedback I'd be grateful but there is no pressure to do so. There will be plenty of people giving me feedback on Tripadvisor.)
He always has a plan for us, one better than we can even imagine!...Exodus 14:14I quit my job today. Technically I handed in my two weeks notice.
It’s time. I just don’t care anymore.
Every day since we sold the house (correction - HAD to sell the house), I keep saying, okay you’re alone, you can cry now.
Except nope - no tears. Nothing left to give, including effs.
We will survive. We will come out stronger. As always, I trust that God has our back. My mom hated the book of Job. Yeah, it’s there for a reason.
That is all. Carry on. So too shall we.
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