That’s what happened here. The police decided the tent city was a no-go location so I’m reasonably sure the inhabitants spread the word and it grew. It’s right by a nature path and that path is strewn with needles in places apparently. Someone died there last week (OD?) and before that there was a stabbing. Before that someone decided to drive over a bunch of tents. It’s a charming place.
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Neighbourhood changes?
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That’s what happened here. The police decided the tent city was a no-go location so I’m reasonably sure the inhabitants spread the word and it grew. It’s right by a nature path and that path is strewn with needles in places apparently. Someone died there last week (OD?) and before that there was a stabbing. Before that someone decided to drive over a bunch of tents. It’s a charming place.
bigpoppa
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the cops would be happy to do something, but likely their hands are tied by policy and policymakers (aka our brilliant politicians)
And the courts. Bringing them in does nothing if they are out in hours. Sadly, the first criminal charge changes the possible paths in your life. Any additional charge barely matters. Monetary fines don't matter as you cant get blood from a stone.
You go once and are now an expert on Kitcheners homeless situation? I go through KW often and have not seen "entire blocks of homeless people".
Land along rail corridors is often a different world. Invisible to drivers and pedestrians.
He is probably talking about the encampment at Victoria and Weber streets. It is an eyesore for sure.
KW has done an awesome job dealing with the homeless. They built a complex on the edge of town. Bigpoppa has exaggerated.
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Mad Mike
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Live in Markham Village, no changes here for decades.
Markham has become a fair size city, some of the newer high density areas are getting sour, I see regular posts on Nextdoor about porch theft, and a lot of stolen cars.
Driving crimes are crazy, don’t know why there isn’t more policing on that front.
Markham has become a fair size city, some of the newer high density areas are getting sour, I see regular posts on Nextdoor about porch theft, and a lot of stolen cars.
Driving crimes are crazy, don’t know why there isn’t more policing on that front.
Homes being treated primarily as commodities aren’t helping. Nothing wrong with the odd reno and flip but there’s people doing this on a massive scale or buying up entire blocks of accommodation for profit. AirBnB misuse has propagated some of this too. Again, nothing wrong with the odd one but greedy ******** are purchasing many multiples of properties just for this too.
Mad Mike
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As a responsible landlord, I have to say I have seriously evaluated changing to AirBNB as opposed to tenants.
I think a lot of AirBNB critics don’t really understand why this is happening. There isn’t a big difference in financially between the two. Here’s an example:
1 br coach house in the burbs rents for 1900/mo, tenant pays hydro & internet.
AirBNB rents for $125/night, average of 6 vacant day a month. Gross of $3000. Now, subtract $300 for utilities and internet, 15 hours of inside upkeep, $150 in supplies, and another $300 for wear and tear upkeep in household fixtures.
You are a few hundred ahead (if you get high vacancy), but you also have a bunch of hosting work to get low vacancy and decent rates.
I’d call that about even unless you value your work at zero.
For me the bigger factor is risk associated with rent collection and property damage from tenants. The LTB is broken, a bad tenant would cost $2000/mo for more than a year, plus any damages done to your property, neither cost is usually recovered.
Once a landlord loses a year’s rent, AirBNB looks pretty awesome.
Yup, and when bad tenants really hosed the landlords during COVID because evictions were all on hold by the LTB it made AirB&B that much more attractive.
Add in surge pricing for airbnb on the plus side too. A nearby big event can be a gold mine.
Gold mines everywhere but not good for long term settlement for anyone. That’s the issue. But I do see your point with the landlord/tenant act. That thing is so heavily biased towards renters that I have a hard job seeing why anyone rents property out at all these days to be honest.
Mad Mike
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That’s true, but at the end of the day there isn’t much of a financial advantage. I believe risk mitigation is why most landlords change over.
Mad Mike
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Fix LTB and I’ll bet the number of AirBNBs drops like a stone.
Less painful than bc's decision to eliminate STR entirely.
I do believe STR contributes substantially to shortage of housing through many paths. I am not interested in being a long-term landlord unless LTB was fair, fast and maintained a searchable database of decisions. Past behaviour is a good predictor of future risk. Just like insurance companies, if you were found at fault before, you need to pay more (or get denied now) to cover the extra risk you present.
TK4
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Reversing truck nutz.
Cost of doing business. $2000 one time fee? Pocket change for people making 3-4-5-6k/month in STRs.
To this day I'm shocked there isn't a legal searchable database of deadbeat tenants. I know there are illegal ones shared privately (when I was a landlord the other landlords shared names of deadbeats and would ask the same if we had any), but those are illegal and kept behind lock and key because 'privacy' blah blah blah.
Name and shame is my motto. Bad landlord -> to the list. Bad tenant -> to the list.
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