There’s a house in our neighbourhood that recently went through an extreme makeover. It took a few months. I don’t remember what it looked like before but it was gradually transformed into a beautiful, heritage style house; all burgundy paint and black railings and stone pavings. Every time we walked by, it was bigger and more gussied. Landscaping. Fancy tiles. I don’t know what-all. It smelled like Money and Class and Holy Shit That’s A Renovation You Don’t See Every Day with Land Values The Way They Are.<\/p>\n
I dubbed it the house of “Richy McRicherpants” the day I walked by and there was a friggin schooner parked in the driveway. Come on, buddy. You couldn’t find a Rolls? (I find I access my construction worker accent quite easily when it comes to obvious shows of wealth.)<\/p>\n
A few weeks later, a for sale sign appeared.<\/p>\n
I hied me to the MLS and found the listing. $1,650,000.<\/p>\n
“Har!” said Saint Aardvark. “How long will it take for that to be reduced?” Because it is a nice neighbourhood but the house is right on the main street, very trafficky, not prime Queen’s Park location like a few blocks east.<\/p>\n
Answer: 6 weeks or so. The ominous “New Price!” sign is this week dangling from the board. I remembered the selling agent’s name this time and went to his website, Dennis Timmermeister.com<\/a> (“If you can say Timmermeister, you can say sold”) and discovered that the house is now only $1,450,000. It has five bedrooms and a 2 bedroom suite below, plus a garage that is “carriage-house-ready.” So I figure we need three families and someone to rent the garage.<\/p>\n Here is the listing.<\/a> Lovely house. Very large. You might think for $1.4 million they could find someone to write a descriptive sentence better than: “Touched By Tradition, cherished yeserdays, but state of the art tomorrow, walk into past and live in the future,” but you would be wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s a house in our neighbourhood that recently went through an extreme makeover. It took a few months. I don’t remember what it looked like before but it was gradually transformed into a beautiful, heritage style house; all burgundy paint … Continue reading