Finding your new address
Finally! A chance to test my search skills.
A relative is in the process of changing homes, and in the red hot market where the family is located, it’s a very rapid process. A couple of weeks is more than enough to put up a sign, mark it as sold and get into a new place (with the usual two month timespan to finish the paperwork. The brag page on social media gave me some useful clues. The realtor, the photo of the property lines, a travel time estimate: none, alone would be enough, but within minutes I had a streetview pic look up the driverway (longer than I would want to clear after a storm).
What the exercise did lead me into was a long thread on what it must be like to live in T.O. There where selling a house means sticking up a finger into the market air and accepting the upbids. Yes, offering to pay the “mark” won’t work. In fact, you had better know where you are going, next, because your home will be sold in record time. Too heady for me. I’m not willing to spend 300% over real value for real estate.
Speaking of addresses; what you don’t want is for 911 dispatch to send the police to your door, when their info is faulty. Much like a wrong number, I guess. The authorities don’t always take the time to knock, or to check the veracity of their dispatch. It can lead to some undue stress, according to a report on the CBC website.
