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Old Posted Mar 2, 2015, 6:17 PM
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"I live in Stinson school"
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It was a comment on dealing with stinson and his development group/operations.
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I went in to talk to these guys about the project (as an investment) over weekend. They really were pushing the construction loan angle over buying an actual unit. The whole thing seemed shady - not to mentioned completely over priced. I mean if you are going to ask those kind of prices - at least have a show room and a website that isn't designed by a grade 10 student.
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Really surprised there's no sign out in front of the school hyping up the project or even just informing people units are for sale.
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Stinson project, right? Hmmm...
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Given that this thread started in April 2014, this project is moving along at a very un-Harry pace so far.
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Approved.

Jason Thorne ‏@JasonThorne_RPP Aug 15

#HamOnt's next #adaptivereuse project approved this week = 1914 Gibson School 2B converted to 80 unit condo

https://twitter.com/JasonThorne_RPP/...46196494508032
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25% sold according to Stinson himself.

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Old Posted Aug 30, 2015, 8:19 AM
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Also, he's already raised prices. Cheapest units were initially 129k and now they start at 169k.
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That's a long way to go to the 60-70% needed to get construction going.
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Also, he's already raised prices. Cheapest units were initially 129k and now they start at 169k.
25% sold for dirt cheap prices. Nothing like a price increase to jolt the market into buying more.

I think Harry needs some lessons on how supply and demand work.

Just to note- usually you need 70-80% sold to begin building. Assuming you were one of the first 25% to put money into this thing, half a year has passed since his little RRSP scheme started, which depended on completion within 3 years.

Does anyone think this entire project will be done and ready to move in within 2 1/2 years?
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Gotta still love Harry's approach to I don't want to spend any money to sell you stuff....
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Gotta still love Harry's approach to I don't want to spend any money to sell you stuff....
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You've gotta really think twice before handing your dough over to Harry. I mean really...
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25% sold for dirt cheap prices. Nothing like a price increase to jolt the market into buying more.

I think Harry needs some lessons on how supply and demand work.
There are still 10 available at Stinson School.... and I believe these were never sold - as opposed to resold. I haven't seen any drops in price either. Way over-priced for the area - especially when you take into account those high maintenance fees.

It really does seem like he doesn't understand supply/demand.

As for Gibson School... I don't care how cheap it is - I wouldn't want to live in that neighbourhood.
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I lived in that area 20 years ago and it was never a problem then. Old houses and a few down and outers but never really bad. Not sure about nowadays.
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I lived in that area 20 years ago and it was never a problem then. Old houses and a few down and outers but never really bad. Not sure about nowadays.
To be clear, houses in the area go for around 200k, with some outliers going as high as 250k, and as low as 150k.

Houses.

He's selling 1000 sq. ft. condos in that building for 300k, and smaller 500-600 sq. ft. units for between 160k to 270k.

I'd also like to point out that he has a link on the project page that reminisces about the Candy Factory Loft conversion he did in 1993, right before the big Toronto condo boom and subsequent real estate bonanza, that disingenuously suggests that a 260k condo purchased today at Gibson might be worth 711k in 20 years.

I sound like a broken record in Stinson threads, but buyer beware.
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In the business section of Tuesday's Spectator (can't find on their website), there is a small article that says Stinson is offering a year of free condo fees for the sales of the next 25% of units.
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