Even years after her first tenants moved out, Donna Grimshaw still remembers the damage the they did to her townhouse.
She rhymes it off like a shopping list, starting with bedroom carpets that were destroyed, water damage from an overflowed toilet, and a junk car that spilled oil down the driveway.
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It’s a tough time to be a renter. I was rejected – and yes, I’m feeling pretty sorry for myself.
After searching for a bigger apartment on and off for the better part of a year, my partner Don and I finally put in an application for a place we liked. We have excellent credit scores, steady jobs and good references. We were confident the landlords would choose us. Why wouldn’t they?
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ASBURY PARK, N.J. — Drew Elia and Kelsey Tooker might lack a kitchen pantry and scenic living room view, but they do have a message for those who are ready — or think they are ready — to move into their first apartment.
“Be realistic,” said Tooker, 23.
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Jed Kolko, Trulia chief economist, discusses a 2013 report that indicates it’s cheaper to buy a home than rent, despite rising home prices.
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CALGARY — With prices in Calgary’s real estate market continuing to rise, a growing trend is emerging in the popularity of attainable housing initiatives in the city.
Attainable Homes Calgary and McPherson Place — two separate projects — have seen an explosion of interest by Calgarians who want to get into home ownership
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EDMONTON – It would be easy to blame students for the mess.
Renters with no ties to the community, are they the focus of a rash of sidewalk complaints giving the university-area neighbourhood of McKernan rights to the title ‘worst winter sidewalks in Edmonton’?
“I was 20-years-old once, too,” said Wayne Rogers with a laugh.
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The Government of Alberta announced on Feb. 7 that 1,600 Albertans have graduated from housing-first programs since 2009.
Locally, Airdrie Housing Ltd. (AHL) is helping approximately 200 people every month with rental units or through their rent supplement program, which helps residents with net incomes not $37,500 rent one-bedroom apartments at a reduced rate.
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The housing market is supposedly roaring back. Home prices are seeing their biggest annual gains since 2006.
Renters must be rushing back to buy, right?
Not exactly.
In fact, even as housing and the greater economy improve, a shift in demographic trends will likely favor the rental apartment market for the foreseeable future. It is all about women.
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Sociologists couldn’t do better than Bram Warshafsky, 23, as a model for the attitude shift toward home ownership that they have long predicted for his generation.
Raised in a four-bedroom house in an upper-middle-class neighbourhood in midtown Toronto, Warshafsky, the second of four boys, appreciated having enough space in the backyard to play catch. But after he finished his commerce degree at Queen’s University in 2010, moved back in with his parents and landed a job with Johnson & Johnson’s marketing division, he couldn’t justify a jump into the real estate market. He has since become what he describes as a “passionate renter.”
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The headline number for housing starts was big, exceeding expectations and sending the home builder stocks on yet another tear.
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