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I will dig it up and you can borrow the book :)
It will just be depressing. If I was in an unincorporated municipality and I could use ungraded wood that I cut and milled myself, the gas bill for the wood processing would probably approach the cost in the book.
 
The jumps over time lines are crazy , my Grandparents 100acre farm on the escarpment in Campbellville was 3,600.00 in 1946 , my mom built a custom home on a 5 acre parcel at front of farm for 17k in 1969. My first house was 112,000. And I just spent 1m and I was downsizing from too big a lot.
The leaps and bounds are crazy.


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My grandparents sold the forks of the credit valley from the ice cream shop to the trestle (hairpin curve) for 4000 dollars

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Was enough for a new car not a great deal even then
They kept 3 acres she just got 1.8 for that piece. Can't imagine what the whole thing would have been worth now.

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That’s the part that was hard to swallow for me , some families have owned interesting real estate over the years , way undervalued when it was too far out from town , hard to access , long way away . Now it’s the desirable place .
Our family farm on the escarpment was last sold for 3.6million , it backs onto Crawford Lake property. We did not get 3m when gramps sold it ……


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That’s the part that was hard to swallow for me , some families have owned interesting real estate over the years , way undervalued when it was too far out from town , hard to access , long way away . Now it’s the desirable place .
Our family farm on the escarpment was last sold for 3.6million , it backs onto Crawford Lake property. We did not get 3m when gramps sold it ……


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My wife's grandmother sold a 10 acre property on lake Joseph with two cottages for a couple hundred thousand about 25 years ago. It could be up close to two orders of magnitude now if you subdivide it and build two nice cottages.
 
My grandparents sold the forks of the credit valley from the ice cream shop to the trestle (hairpin curve) for 4000 dollars

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50+ years ago a friend wanted me to go into a joint venture with him. The old hotel at the bottom of the hairpin was for sale. He'd buy it and we would go joint on rebuilding the place. He couldn't get it cheap enough plus part of it was on the road allowance IIRC.

Around the same time I passed on a 20 acre parcel of land near Milton. Twenty grand was a lot of money back then and raw land is a peculiar investment.
 
My wife's grandmother sold a 10 acre property on lake Joseph with two cottages for a couple hundred thousand about 25 years ago. It could be up close to two orders of magnitude now if you subdivide it and build two nice cottages.
A colleague was selling the family cottage on Lake Joe 40ish years ago and I could have traded even for my modest Toronto place. While it appeared to be waterfront it technically wasn't because there was a road allowance between the cottage and the lake.

However the township announced that they were selling the road allowances for $10,000 a pop. The property value would have doubled. Is there a chance that a few politicians had properties in the area?
 
A cousin had a 56 Chevy hardtop that he traded in for a 55 T bird which he later sold for $500. He followed up with a 58 Corvette then a 65 Mustang. Then he went with blahmobiles.

I'm seeing people asking five figures prices for mid 60's survivors. I'm not that interested.
 
In 1972 a buddy was renting a flat in the Beaches - 104 Neville Park Blvd., right at the end of the Queen streetcar loop. The landlord wanted to sell and offered him first dibs. I had my first real job, so we discussed buying it as a partnership (it had two apartments). The chap wanted $21K for it - he may as well have said $21 million, we couldn't scrape the down payment together. I've often wondered what that place would go for now ?
Woulda, coulda, shoulda - didn't....
 
In 1972 a buddy was renting a flat in the Beaches - 104 Neville Park Blvd., right at the end of the Queen streetcar loop. The landlord wanted to sell and offered him first dibs. I had my first real job, so we discussed buying it as a partnership (it had two apartments). The chap wanted $21K for it - he may as well have said $21 million, we couldn't scrape the down payment together. I've often wondered what that place would go for now ?
Woulda, coulda, shoulda - didn't....
1.15 in 2012. Probably more than double that now.
 

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