Real Estate

"The city has a long-standing concern with the need to preserve local affordable rental housing and has recently become particularly concerned with a perceived increase in the risk of renovictions in New Westminster. So long as complementary local laws do not frustrate other legislation, 'in an area of jurisdictional overlap, the level of government that is closest to the matter will often introduce complementary legislation to accommodate local circumstances.'"

"Learn more about "renovictions" in RTA: Section 49.2"

"We’ve seen an explosion in the number of N-13s served by landlords. It’s happening all over southern Ontario. People are desperate. They have the right to move back into the same unit and pay the same rent."

"Renovictions and rising rental rates are very much part of a larger issue in Canada: the commodification of housing, and investment companies deliberately using housing as a wealth-generating tool."

"This important ruling supports the city in taking bold steps to directly respond to the housing crisis"

"This transaction is truly a win-win. It helps maintain affordability in the assets, and, at the same time, the proceeds generated from the transaction strengthen the REIT's position to further increase housing supply across the country as we invest in our existing portfolio and new purpose-built rental developments."

"As existing markets expand and REIT-like structures are introduced in more countries, we expect to see the overall market grow by some ten percent per annum over the next five years, taking the market to $1 trillion by 2010."

"While not all states allow rental property owners to mandate renters’ insurance most do allow it. If legal in your state, it might be a good idea to include a clause requiring your tenant to obtain renters’ insurance in your lease. Here’s why…"

"Trump Park Avenue, New York, NY"

"The worth of a thing is what it will bring."

"In Strasbourg itself there were no gaps between past and present. Romanesque and Gothic Middle Ages, Baroque and the most recent constructions after 1871, all stood on top of each other, constituting, not exactly a harmonious unity, but nevertheless that unity and continuity of historical life which overcomes even the most enormous tensions and recalls the continuous struggle and the changing fortunes of the people. Strasbourg Cathedral constitutes the most powerful center of this unit. It often seemed to us that it had been built not by the hand of man, but by eternity, as a warning to the fleeting generations of men, to serve the eternal with their weak strength, and in particular to serve the Germans to show themselves worthy of this cathedral. [...] And in looking at the marvelous Romanesque apse, I had the feeling that a supreme and impenetrable mystery was still hidden here. (Friedrich Meinecke)"

"Local governments use zoning bylaws to regulate how a property can be used."

"I learnt more during my school-days from my visits to the Cathedral at Winchester than I did from the hours of religious instruction in school. That great church with its tombs of the Saxon kings and the mediaeval statesmen-bishops gave one a greater sense of the magnitude of the religious element in our culture and the depths of its roots in our national life than anything one could learn from books."

"Winchester Cathedral, You're bringing me down You stood and you watched as My baby left town."

"Just over one–quarter of households in condominium dwellings were renters and not owners"

"The Condominium Authority of Ontario has an overarching goal to enhance consumer protection for condominium owners, directors and residents. This is made possible through a comprehensive offering of information about condominium ownership including self-help tools, mandatory director training, and a new online dispute resolution service, the Condominium Authority Tribunal (CAT)."

"[The dispute reached a] depth where one would expect to find emotional children who have not yet learned the basic tenets of acting civilly toward each other, not senior citizens"

"There has been no rental stock really built for 40 years, it’s all condo. There is an absolute shortage of supply. We’d be [in trouble] without condos. There would be people on the street breaking windows because they had no place to live. It allows for semi-affordable units."

"If we don’t get busy and start talking about what the issues are and what are some of the reasonable fixes, then everybody loses. We want to live the joys of condominium life, not the nightmare of it."

"[Dyke] is entitled to live underneath a residential apartment unit and not underneath a professional dance studio."

"There's all of these very luxurious buildings going in all around us that are outrageously priced. The foreign buyers tax … I don't think that's making an iota of difference."

"Condominium development has steadily increased in Ontario for several years. While condominiums typically represent an attractive lifestyle and home-ownership alternatives for buyers, they also, importantly, introduce a new approach to community planning for home builders and municipal approval authorities in Ontario. ...[There are] opportunities for developers to be both creative and profitable in building, and municipalities more flexible and imaginative in planning and approving, developments that will become sustainable communities."

"One in three (34.3%) occupied dwellings built between 2001 and 2011 were condominium units. For occupied dwellings built prior to 1981, less than one in ten (9.4%) dwellings were condominium units"

"The occupant of a multiple-dwelling unit cannot expect to live in a silent environment comparable to that of a single-family residence without horizontal or vertical dividing walls"

"The average amount expected by condominium owners if the dwelling were to be sold was $327,000, compared to $472,000 for other homeowners"

"The identification of the tomb discovered by the Portuguese as that of St Thomas has been thoroughly repudiated even by those scholars who are sympathetic to the Thomas legend. For example, Jesuit archeologist Fr H. Heras writes: 'Some early Portuguese writers have kept the details of the original account, and these details are quite enough for disclosing the untruthfulness of the discovery'. Another Christian scholar, T.K. Joseph, states with regard to the burial place of Thomas: 'I am fully convinced that it has never been in Mylapore. I have stated that many times'."

"Archeological studies by the Government of India confirm that the Portuguese built the church on the ruins of a Hindu temple. They have recovered an inscription of Rajendra Chola, the Imperial Chola who was devoted to the Vedic religion. A 1967 report of the Archaeological Survey of India on the recovery of the eleventh-century inscription of Rajendra Chola from San Thome Church in Madras states that the inscription mentions the Chola king as favored by Lakshmi, 'who grants him victory and prosperity'."

"From the artifacts discovered by archeologists at San Thome, one can infer that the temple should have existed elsewhere and most probably it existed at San Thome beach . . . because remnants of the old temple were discovered at San Thome beach. In 1923 when archeologists conducted excavations at San Thome cathedral they discovered inscriptions and statues. The inscriptions indicated a temple. [. . .] Saint Arunagiri Nathar also mentions that Kapaleeswara temple existed by the side of the beach. . . . Hence, in conclusion, one can state that the old Kapaleeswara temple was destroyed by Portuguese in the fifteenth century and was built in its present place by Nattu Nayiniappa Muthaliar and son in the sixteenth century."

"Obligations on the landlord or tenant regarding adequate maintenance of the property"

"Eviction controls: codified standards by which a landlord may terminate a tenancy"

"In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing."

"We'll end the two-tiered rental market, bringing back rent control to all rental homes across Ontario and providing much-needed stability to renters who can prepare for smaller, more predictable rent increases," the platform states."

"Price controls, limits on the rent that a landlord may charge, typically called rent regulation or rent stabilization"

"It’s folks who are poor and working-class that lose out in that deal. There are plenty of landlords who are self-righteous about it and see renters as money-making machines rather than as equal fellow human beings, who have just as much right to want to live well and safely."

"I feel bad that I have not been able to pay her [the landlord]. We’ve gone from two incomes. I had COVID-19 twice. My kids all have had it once. My husband's had it once. We've been affected by the virus"

"The tenant pondered. "Funny thing how it is. If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it's part of him, and it's like him. If he owns property only so he can walk on it and handle it and be sad when it isn't doing well, and feel fine when the rain falls on it, that property is him, and some way he's bigger because he owns it. Even if he isn't successful he's big with his property. That is so." And the tenant pondered more. "But let a man get property he doesn't see, or can't take time to get his fingers in, or can't be there to walk on it—why, then the property is the man. He can't do what he wants, he can't think what he wants. The property is the man, stronger than he is. And he is small, not big. Only his possessions are big—and he's the servant of his property. That is so, too."

"Financial firms are raising rents higher than other types of landlords. On average, after a financial firm acquires a building, they increase the eviction-filing rate by three. They triple it."

"I am a 41-year-old woman with an 11-year-old child, and I am very frightened by the way the Oakland Housing Authority (OHA) has been treating me. I was terrified recently when the OHA Police showed up at my door around 10 p.m. at night, accusing my family of committing fraud to move into this townhouse; and they served me a five-day notice to surrender my home to the OHA, or else."

"I don't know what happened to him ... Up until the last while, I never had a day's trouble with him. He was friendly"

"We're not tasked with building deeply or . We can't be there. We're in business. Let's draw a line between these two"

"You may say you attained some stage in your practice. But that is just a trivial event in your long life. It is like saying the ocean is round, or like a jewel, or palace. For a hungry ghost the ocean is a pool of blood; for a dragon the ocean is a palace; for a fish it is his house; for a human being it is water. There must be various understandings. When the ocean is a palace, it is a palace. You cannot say it is not a palace. For a dragon it is actually a palace. If you laugh at a fish who says it is a palace, Buddha will laugh at you who say it is two o'clock, three o'clock. It is the same thing."

"A palace will fall of its own accord."

"Ignoramuses are numerous in the palace."

"The palace is like a mighty river: its middle is goring bulls; what flows in is never enough to fill it, and what flows out can never be stopped."

"I'm gazing at church and palace, ruin and column, Like a serious man making sensible use of a journey, But soon it will happen, and all will be one vast temple, Love's temple, receiving its new initiate. Though you're a whole world, Rome, still, without Love, The world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome."

"When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash."

"Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula."

"Israel has forgotten their Maker and built palaces."

"Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination."

"Always let you work on your inner temple, therein lies great beauty."