CD members,
I have an interesting happening that i would like to share with you.
One of our client is doing a big subdivision project at Maple (major mac- Keele street). The sales man sold a number of houses in this subdivision mostly to italians and to other nationalities incl. many desi's. This salesman is my friend while the client/ owner is not.
As per architectural control laws , there are rules in placing houses next to each other. like if i sold a Hapmton elevation A , then i canot place a Hapmto Elevation A next to it. In this subdivision any Elevation B is 10K costlier than Elevation A. In a particular case the salesman sold 2 Hampton elevation B next to each other. So i told him the problem. There was a discussion with the owner. The owner said "One of the person who to whom the Hampton Elevation B was sold is my niece so give her Elevation B, give the next Idiot an Elevation A". I was shell shocked. I asked the salesman how he would tell the client this. He said " Hey, no one cares. Just give them an excuse and they will accept it"
In another case, a particualy unit was sold in Lot 25 but the unit could not fit in Lot 25 (which was nearer to the main road leading to the subdivision) and so it was sited/located at Lot 37 which was farther away.

My question is :
How do desi's react to such situations. When you buy a new house, do you check the dimensions of the houses/ area of houses based on the brouchure ( we regularly cheat on the areas/plans due to poor planning). The brouchure has a disclaimer and so you canot sue the builder for small changes. Do you check if the elevation confirms to the elevation of the houses? (Note this also has a disclaimer). Do you check the quality of construction and the specifications?
TK
Sidenote : The cheapest house cost in this subdivision is 393K. It is not a big house or a costly finish/ high area one too. 35% is already sold. The builder told us that he took a 8m loan from the bank for the land and that since he has to pay it back, he wants to start constructing the houses ASAP.

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I am a Gents and not a Ladies.

You have done a good thing by bringing this issue to enlighten CDs. For this reason I recommend people to go for resale homes, not brand new that are still on the drawing board. And you can always pick up a brand new or fairly new 'resale' home. Builder iron clad contracts are heavily loaded in their favor (obviously). in resale homes, what you see is what you get. Unless you are buying a house to flip it once it is completed, comparable resale home is always a better deal (and there will always be people who disagree).

I suggest people read Bob Aaron's columns in Toronto Star about the issues pertaining to new homes where he discusses court decisions on customer complaints against the builders.

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Rajeev Narula, Broker, REALTOR®
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Majority of the desis are scared to ask qns when it comes to a new house. They will take what they are given. Most will haggle with the price. That's all they care even if the house is going to be built on a lake or a landfill.

DIO