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MLS Real Estate Listings in Sarnia, Ontario: Your Key to Informed Decisions

Make informed real estate decisions with our MLS listings in Sarnia Ontario. From residential properties to investment opportunities, our comprehensive database ensures you have the information you need at your fingertips.

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Become an agent first and the ideal approach to get to the MLS listings Sarnia is to turn into a specialist. This will allow you full rights as a part, and once you get your permit, endorsement for the MLS is a custom.

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Top Things Not to Ignore While Selling Your Home

We now operate within a new financial and real estate paradigm. Sellers no longer ask with the intent to sell in mind. Many now have items to sell. These are some things that you should not ignore, while trying houses for sale in Oshawa quickly any market, whether you are trying to sell your house online or sell it for cash in a quick private sale.

Finding out who your competition is

Your rivals will be the owners of nearby houses that are currently for sale. You must distinguish yourself as the best value, so you must know how you compare. If not, you will just assist in their sales until you settle on a price that is reasonable. Your health, the surrounding area, and the cost - all are essential factors to consider.

Disclosing information about your location or your home condition

Make any updates that your house requires. Provide a discount if your location has problems. In their offers, the buyer will address these (if you do not mention the same in your listing). When you get your Sarnia homes for Sale listed or try to sell it yourself, do not ignore these important issues.

Listing it with a real estate agent (in a competitive market)

In a seller's market, some homeowners can sell their house without any help. Hire a top real estate agent in a challenging market. Majority of sellers attempt to sell their home themselves frequently, at a discount, for the buyer because they believe they cannot afford the commission and are therefore unable to pass that savings along to the buyer. Additionally, increased demand is what drives up prices, and a real estate agent using the MLS and the internet can significantly increase demand for a property than can any single homeowner.

Providing incentives

You should not ignore these:

Paying the closing costs of a buyer.

Making bonus payments to sales representatives.

Paying annual dues to an association.

Giving all of these incentives t buyers can set you apart from the competition in a competitive market, giving you the chance to sell your home quickly or becoming a "time on the market" statistic.

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The Sad State of Toronto’s Rental Market

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Tough subject today, no doubt about it.

And every time I write about the rental market, I try to tread carefully.

We all have different opinions on this subject, and whether you agree or not, I remain one-hundred percent convinced that our opinions are based on our own demographic and place in life.  I’m sure somewhere, there’s an owner of a $10 Million mansion in Toronto lamenting society’s most unfortunate, and maybe/maybe-not actually doing something about it.  But for the most part, our thoughts and opinions on something like the ability to choose a prospective tenant are shaped by where we are in our own lives, how we were brought up, and our own intrinsic value systems.

And “choosing” tenants right now, is an issue.

I’ve never seen a rental market this competitive, and I have probably said that six or seven times previously.

Properties are being leased sight-unseen, within hours of hitting MLS.  Tenants are “bidding” over the asking price, submitting 4-6 months’ deposit in advance, and writing personal letters to try and form a connection with the landlord.

And “offer dates” are being set for rentals.

Let me say that again, in case you’re skimming: offer dates are being set for properties on MLS for lease.

Check out this MLS listing for a midtown rental:

Is that insane, or what?

That’s for a lease listing!

But what can you do, if you’re the listing agent?  You’re truly damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

If you simply accept the first  offer that comes through, you piss off 50 other prospective tenants and their agents.  If you hold an “offer date,” then you’re a greedy, egotistical jerk who is getting high on the power of being a listing agent in a frenetic market.

I recently put a condo up for lease for an investor-client, and the response was mind-blowing.  I was inundated with showing requests the moment the listing went up on MLS – probably 20 the first day alone, not to mention a dozen emails from Realtor.ca.

And this is where things get dicey for both the landlord and the listing agent.

I believe in the free market.

I also believe there is far too much government intervention in our lives, and I also believe the world is absolutely off its rocker with political-correctness and bending-over-backwards to acquiesce to every social cause.  Like that guy, John, who once told you that you had ugly cuticles.  So nobody in North America should be permitted to name their child “John” ever again, and furthermore,  we should insist that every individual on the planet wears gloves at all times, to not alienate those people with bad cuticles.  If said person was on the TTC, and saw a beautiful hand, he or she might feel like a lesser being, and thus we should all wear gloves, all the time.

And so on.

But somewhere in all this cynicism, and within my own resistance to this new world we live in, we risk becoming like many other parts of the world, where the racists, bigots, and haters have been given a voice, a platform, and support.

Which brings me to today’s Toronto rental market.

As I said above, there simply has to be an intersection of a landlord/investor/owner/risk-taker protecting his or her investment and asset, and adhering to legal guidelines, and acceptable societal behaviour.

Ask ten different people what is “acceptable societal behaviour,” and you’ll get ten different answers; probably three hovering around the middle-ground, two on either sides, and then two both at complete opposite ends of the spectrum, representing conflicting ideologies.

I’ve written about rental discrimination so many times on this blog, that if you Google, “rental discrimination Toronto realty blog,” no fewer than eight links will appear, in a row, with links to blogs I’ve written on this topic.

But here are again.

So as is often the case on this blog, I want to turn this around to the readers, and ask for input.  I want to give you the details of five inquiries I received on this 600 square foot, 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom condo, and have you tell me if you think that a landlord would be discriminating against the potential tenant if the landlord said “no,” or if the landlord has a right, in those cases, to choose who he or she wants.

Three of these are text messages, and two are phone calls which are as close to verbatim as I can provide.

Inquiry #1:

“Hi David, would your landlord consider renting to two couples?  I know that might be a bit unorthodox, but they’re two wonderful, lovely young couples, hard-working, not party-goers, who lived together in a house away at school and want to stay together.  One couple would be in the bedroom and one couple would be in the den/dining area, which could really be its own little nook away from the TV and kitchen.  Let me know, they’re such a lovely couple, please consider them!”

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Inquiry #2:

“My client is UOFT student who will pay three months rent prepaid looking for 16months lease term for school but no reference or employment or credit.”

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Inquiry #3:

“I have a single mother to two children who is moving here from abroad.  Would you consider a single mother with two children from abroad? thank you”

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Inquiry #4:

“My clients are both new to the city and will be looking for work immediately (currently living here, renting AirBnB, on the job hunt) but can provide references, credit scores, and pay stubs from their last jobs.  They could provide three months rent up front and one parent could co-sign (lives in Sarnia) if needed but they would prefer not to.”

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Inquiry #5:

“Husband is relocating for work.  Wife stays home there is one child. There is mother too but they all live together now in smaller place than this. Beautiful condo they would cherish this opportunity.”

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Halfway through writing the above, I realized this almost seems formulaic; like a test.

I assure you, these are (in some cases, copy-and-paste), verbatim.  These are only five of the inquiries I selected, because I had the same general inquiries multiple times, and because a few of the inquiries were totally normal.

Oh, wait.  With that last line, I guess I tipped my hand.

“….a few of the inquiries were totally normal.”

Which means that I believe the above inquiries are not normal, and thus somewhere in the city right now, a TRB-reader is angrily ripping off that Toronto Realty Blog belly-top, and replacing it with a Raptors/Mastercard giveaway t-shirt that was shot out of a cannon in 2015.

Well, crap.

If it makes you feel any better, I would actually call the five inquiries above “the new normal,” because they represent most of what we see out there these days.

And I’m not saying what I would or wouldn’t do if I were the landlord.  But I will say that most of my landlords are looking for the proverbial “perfect tenant,” whatever that means to them.  You can throw accusations here all you want – suggest the sex, race, age, employment status et al of the “perfect tenant,” but this is the entire point of this blog!

What does society out there, today, in an ever-changing sociopolitical and socio-economic climate, think of the way our rental market works?

You guys are anonymous, so tell me what you think.  Would you spend $500,000 on a rental property, to turn around and rent to an 18-year-old who has no job, no income, no references, no credit score, no guarantor, and no family on this continent?

And further to the point, is my even asking this considered “racist” by today’s standards?

Fifty-dollar follow-up question: for those that are taking the defensive position here, do you think that the government should somehow mandate, or regulate, what types of tenants “qualify,” and where?  Is there a scenario in which the above candidate, with no job, no income, no references, no credit history, and no guarantor, would be considered a “suitable” tenant, by law, and whereby a property owner couldn’t refuse them?

Because I think that’s where all this may be headed.

The PC Party in power throughout the Province might not get us there right away, but there’s an incredible housing shortage in the city of Toronto, rents have skyrocketed and show no signs of levelling off, let alone going down, builders are price-fixing (as per my blog post from last month, HERE), and something has to give.

I meant what I said above: it’s a sad state that the rental market is in, and I won’t pretend to have the answers.

But the other side of the equation here that we have yet to explore is expectations.

Is it realistic for a group of four people to rent a 1-bed, 1-bath condo?

Does a family of four truly expect to rent a 1-bedroom condo?

Some will be quick to point out that there are places across the globe where three full families can live in 600 square feet!  But if that’s not the norm here, then what do we make of similar expectations?

Should the unemployed expect to encounter little to no resistance from a landlord?

What’s realistic anymore?

It’s worth noting here, since the question will undoubtedly be raised, that in response to all five of the inquiries above, as well as every other inquiry I ever receive, I say the following: “I can’t speak for the landlord, it’s their decision to make.  They would need an offer and all accompanying documentation in order to make a decision.”

What else would I say?

Because it’s not my decision.  I can advise, and I can opine, but the decision isn’t up to me, so when somebody asks “Would your client, A, B, and C,” I have to check with the landlord-client first.

Some agents get upset, and respond, “Well I don’t want to waste my time showing the condo if your clients wouldn’t accept my tenant.”  And then we’re right back in a bind, aren’t we?  The landlord and the tenant; the chicken and the egg.  The landlord can’t make a decision without actually receiving an offer and supporting documentation, but the tenant and/or agent doesn’t want to spend time looking at the condo without an answer in advance.

Blame the landlord and/or listing agent (ie. me) for not being more forthcoming.  Blame the tenant for being lazy.  Take your pick.

It’s lose-lose, either way.

And I’m seeing a lot of loosing in today’s Toronto rental market.  People almost come to expect failure, which once again, can only be described as sad.

So give me your two cents on the scenario’s above, and let’s try not to hit below the belt…

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Explore MLS Real Estate Listings in Petrolia, Ontario | Sarnia RE/MAX Realty

Discover a wide range of MLS real estate listings in Petrolia Ontario with Sarnia RE/MAX Realty. Whether you're searching for residential or commercial properties, our experienced team is here to assist you. Petrolia offers a charming small-town atmosphere, coupled with convenient access to urban amenities. With our comprehensive knowledge of the local market, we can help you find the perfect property that suits your needs and preferences. Explore the diverse options available and start your real estate journey in Petrolia, Ontario today with Sarnia RE/MAX Realty.

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