I'm disgusted to learn we are getting 1/3 of our power from gas. Fuck Doug Ford and all the anti-environmentalist cunts he employs.

Fuck people that run reds. As a speeder, even I can agree with you on that. I'm so sorry for what happened to you, no one deserves to be put through that.

It's even worse – they do less surgery at a more relaxed pace, so capacity is actually decreasing. It attracts lots of staff because of flexible hours and good pay. The result is poor people get fucked.

Running a red ≠ going through a yellow. The latter is legal – that's the whole point of a yellow, to give warning for folks who are a bit too late to stop.

Oh, just to clarify, the house is owned outright with no mortgage, so at least we don't have any equity problems like the first article mentions. However... yeah, that's not looking promising. I'm inclined to think it's better to drop the price by €101K or so. Better to do that and get the money now, than get stuck with it for many more years while the market recovers. Do you think that could make sense?

We do have some rental income, but it's managed by the family friend, who only rents out to "nice families" she knows. We're half-booked for July and August. It drives me a little bit crazy that they resist doing a proper managed Airbnb in the meantime.

Honestly, I'd love to get rid of the property in hopes that we can then buy into something that WE control. I'd like to think I'm half decent at financial management, but to be effective, we need to actually have control. The family friend is a really nice lady, but she's no financial manager, that's for sure.

The City of Hamilton was grossly incompetent in this, but what else is new. We have astronomical property taxes, and yet all we get is bloated bureaucracy, shitty service, and mass surveillance in the form of cash-grab speed cams.

I have NEVER gone through a red, and yet I routinely substantially speed. There's no excuse for running reds. If your reaction time is too shitty to stop quick enough, drive slower. But some of us have very fast reaction times indeed.

Thank you. You're exactly right.

Landlords are not philanthropists. You are not going to find a big group of homeowners who want to rent at a loss out of the goodness of their own hearts.

I would love if the government took strong measures to encourage home ownership and discourage treating real estate as an investment. Really, I would. But that will take many years of hard work and economics PhDs to concoct a plan that works. So, until we find a government with the balls to do that for real, we have to understand that dealing with landlords in a realistic way is a necessary evil.

Because if you nuke rentals without first ensuring people can afford to buy, all you'll accomplish is to create a mass housing shortage worse than you've ever seen.

Fair enough! I have no real sense of the northern 90% of my own country, I'm embarrassed to say. XD

Would you mind elaborating on your remark about them being a bit more conservative? I realize that rural places tend to be more conservative by default, but I'm wondering whether that means center-right mind-your-own-business conservatives, or the kind that are a bit more... upfront.

Full disclosure, I'm trans and so is my wife, so it is indeed something we have to keep in mind.

This is actually not true. If you ban it here AND remove the Health Canada requirement for testing on higher order animals, there is no need to do that research. It doesn't even correlate that well with human health outcomes. Ban the practice and remove the incentive, and I guarantee you that the behaviour will go away.

The FDA already removed its requirement for testing on higher order mammals – mouse work is sufficient to get an investigational new drug (IND) permit, or an equivalent permit for a medical device. I suspect Health Canada has done the same, but I'm not 100% sure – if not, it absolutely should. I'd rather have marginally more risk to human participants that generates useful, applicable data, than perform countless cruel experiments that poorly correlate with human biology.

Yeah, we'll try to get the family friend to send it to us, for sure

You have to have liability insurance here (which I agree is a good thing), but everything else on top of that (e.g. collision insurance) is optional.

What a shitty fluff article. You can only see the details once you subscribe to their shitty site.

TL;DR: Guy asked chatgpt what you can replace chloride with in salt, and it thought he meant chemistry, so it told him other halides like bromide. It did NOT recommend him to eat it. He inferred that on his own, and then gave himself a psychiatric illness by eating buckets of it.

This is an example of an unfortunate illness caused by human stupidity.

Don't blame human stupidity on LLMs.

Hmm, that's a good idea. At least then it doesn't have to go through the family friend. I guess they'd take care of any necessary permits too. I like it!

Do you think it's realistic to try to rent out the property in low season as well (late fall, winter, early spring), or is this likely to be a predominantly summer thing?

Both. It's all a scam. Buy the minimum insurance you can find. You can never make a claim anyways, lest your insurance become unaffordable or cancelled entirely, so why bother paying high rates.

Signed!

Good luck in your search! We're very lucky to have actually just found a buyer for the full list price, but yeah, the market is rough right now

I'd just like access to a peaceful quiet forest and a cozy home. I'm a simple girl~ uwu

Thank you so much! These are great starting points. Also, thank you for the condolences – it's been a couple of years since her dad (the heir) passed away, and several more since her grandpa passed. Getting possession turned out to be very complicated, but we're nearing the finish line on that front.

I do have a remaining question, actually. Real estate is an interesting option, and I like the idea of a nice stable rental income over the years. However, here in Canada where we now live, I fear that there's a substantial real estate bubble. If true, now would probably be an awful time to by. What do you think?