by Natalka Falcomer | Apr 13, 2021 | Featured
COVID-19 did more than force us to stay indoors – it also shattered the fragile financial lives of millions of rent-payers. Unlike homeowners and buyers who have added to Canada’s sizzling real estate market, renters, who on average spend between 35 per cent to more...
by Sebastian Marquez | Mar 12, 2021 | Featured
The rental market has been hit hard by the pandemic. With Ontario experiencing a downward trend in the number of reported cases and several vaccines rolling out across the world, more investors are becoming hopeful of the rental market and general economy recovering....
by Natalka Falcomer | Nov 5, 2020 | Featured
Ontario tenants breathed a collective sigh of relief when the moratorium on evictions via the Protecting Small Business Act in Ontario was extended to the Halloween weekend. Landlords, on the other hand, had no time to breathe as the act forced them to reverse their...
by Chris Seepe | Oct 6, 2020 | Featured
Recently, my partner and I invested just under $1 million to purchase a beautiful ranch-style bungalow that we converted into long-term affordable “home share” housing for seniors in Peterborough, Ont. The project has struggled and could possibly fail because of many...
by Natalka Falcomer | Sep 9, 2020 | Featured
The recent changes to Ontario’s Residential Tenancies Act aimed to address the myriad of issues created by the fact that living in cities is just not affordable. But these changes didn’t address a solution many tenants have found to dealing with the unaffordability...