All Forum Posts by: Jesse Shields

I'd seen the salary/home price one before but the rent one is an interesting quick reference point. Thanks for sharing that @Jeff Gilbert!

It would be interesting to have a similar graphic with the average price of each of those units (but I'm sure that information is available).

@Graeme Cram Welcome to BP Forum. Tons of good info and helpful people on this forum. There are a bunch of people in Alberta and Calgary on this forum and there have been a variety of meets over the past few months that have been setup.

@Jerry Charlton

Welcome to BP. It's definitely nice to see some more Calgary Investors and Real Estate professionals making it to the site!

@Marco Santarelli I've been called away for work unfortunately but I believe my brother @Todd Shields should be able to make it instead!

@Todd Shields

Hey @Brandon Haughey, welcome to BP. 

Tons of great info on this forum and growing number of Canadian members and member activity, even around Calgary. Definitely take a look through the whole site as there is a ton of great tools and information.

@Cal Ewing Thanks for the tag! I am in as well just name the place and time. Both the original dates work well for me.

@Chris NordsveenI've mainly been working through setting up documents, getting familiar with deal analysis, trying to establish rehab pricing for the various items and services.

As others have stated, I have been trying to gauge what the best path forward is at this point given what the job market might be doing or might not be doing. 

Obviously for Calgary, oil is a huge part of the economy but things aren't as desperate (yet) for many companies. Trying to re-evaluate if the condo route is the best option right now but I am always down to meet up and discuss as well.

Jesse

I think it would be interesting to plot mean housing prices against mean household income as well. 

Some interesting talking points regarding the consumer product price differential. For the most part,  I think much of that has materialized in the past 5 years with an exceptionally strong dollar. I think many Canadians have forgotten that aspect (priced the same but a 20-30% premium due to exchange). 

The housing front is a bit of a different beast though.

Jesse

This is true until you get out to BC and (and even some areas of Alberta) where Craigslist is far more popular for some reason. Never did understand why though.