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[Barrrister]

UVIC could have built more rental housing years ago. The province would have over ridden any municipal objections for residences on the UVIC campus.   

[Victoria Watcher]

wasn’t there some type of law that forbid them borrowing for housing? there was some issue. that was later fixed.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 August 2021 - 02:45 PM.

[Mike K.]

UBC has been doing it for a long time, but that campus is treated differently than UVic.

[Victoria Watcher]

UBC has been doing it for a long time, but that campus is treated differently than UVic.

don’t they generate money from leases on the endowment lands?

[Victoria Watcher]

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[Nparker]

The landscaping could use some work.

[Mike K.]

Rents can rise 1.5% on January 1, 2022. Landlords have to give tenants three months notice before rents can rise.

[Victoria Watcher]

how much can property tax rise?

[lanforod]

Unlimited, effectively.

[Nparker]

Rents can rise 1.5% on January 1, 2022...

 

how much can property tax rise?

I'd love a year when my property tax only went up 1.5%.

[Mike K.]

Rents are going to spike as a result. I know TAPS, etc, are lobbying the government to prohibit landlords from raising rents in between tenants but that would be a death blow to the industry and we’d see a lot of rental units convert to condos.

Rental buildings have mortgages, too. And typically at higher rates than residential mortgages. At 1.5% rent increase the industry is unsustainable if we all are operating under the assumption that mortgage rates are going to rise.

[spanky123]

I'd love a year when my property tax only went up 1.5%.

 

Two years. Rents were frozen last year so this is really 1.5% over two years!

[spanky123]

Rents are going to spike as a result. I know TAPS, etc, are lobbying the government to prohibit landlords from raising rents in between tenants but that would be a death blow to the industry and we’d see a lot of rental units convert to condos.

Rental buildings have mortgages, too. And typically at higher rates than residential mortgages. At 1.5% rent increase the industry is unsustainable if we all are operating under the assumption that mortgage rates are going to rise.

 

The bigger problem is that rent increases were supposed to be tied to some economic indicator like cost of living or inflation. What appears to be happening is that rent increases are a political decision and we all know what that means. 

 

I feel badly for the property owners who have signed deals with the City guaranteeing rental tenure for some short term benefit. I think that rent control is soon going to be tied to the unit and not just the tenant and eventually owners will be turning their keys over to the Government to further the ultimate goal of state owned housing.

[Mike K.]

Yes, that’s how the BC Liberals did it, they tied it to inflation, plus a politically determined additional component (2% I think it was, maybe 1.5%?). At solely 1.5% the only opportunity to remain solvent is to raise rates in between tenants. If the unit itself becomes rent controlled we’re in serious trouble as external cost factors will not care.

[Victoria Watcher]

^ ^ you are exactly correct. used as a political tool like BC Ferries and ICBC is. when ICBC sent cheques that was politics.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 September 2021 - 07:16 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

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[Victoria Watcher]

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16 units seems like a deal to me.  $310k per unit.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 November 2021 - 08:50 AM.

[Mike K.]

Recent appraisal available.

Why don’t residential listings that are destined for a bidding war provide documents to prospective buyers? Even a basic appraisal is helpful.

[Victoria Watcher]

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[Victoria Watcher]

A group of now mostly homeless James Bay residents are pursuing legal action after they say their landlord coerced them out of their homes following an apartment building fire Oct. 25.

Represented by Together Against Poverty Society (TAPS), the group of seven says 48 hours after a fire gutted one of the units at 118 Menzies St. their landlord, Pacific Cove Properties, approached them individually and told them the building was no longer habitable. They say they were told to receive their damage deposits back they had to sign a mutual agreement to end their tenancy.

The problem, TAPS lawyer Leila Geggie Hurst says, is that they aren’t at all sure the building is in fact uninhabitable. Hurst says a report they have seen by a City of Victoria building inspector and the Victoria Fire Department states that all of the units of the tenants she is representing are undamaged.


https://www.vicnews....-october-fire/#

Neil Kingswell, who lived at 118 Menzies St. for more than 20 years and had the lowest rent, says his only income is a monthly government pension payment. He’s been getting put up in a hotel since the fire, but says in a few days he’ll have nowhere to go.

“I want to go home, desperately. I go down sometimes and I just stand there and look up at my apartment,” he says. “I felt very safe in James Bay due to my lifestyle, my sexuality, and I don’t want to go somewhere where I’m going to be afraid to walk down the street.”

Kingswell, like several others, signed the tenancy ending agreement before even getting to step foot back in his apartment. When he did, he was shocked to see it appeared completely untouched.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 November 2021 - 01:32 PM.