Good morning, good evening, and a good afternoon, Joanna.
This is Paul and Drigo, realestatepodcastshow.com, bringing you the home history
podcast of your property in the East York community.
Every chance I get to help share these stories with those of you who own and
love and care for these homes is always a very big pleasure.
And I thank you for the chance to share some of these stories with you and with the audience.
Your story starts at a very special time.
1925 is the year. It's very special because of the fact that East York was just
incorporated one year prior to this.
So, your property was built as almost one of the newest homes of East York.
Seeing as you're celebrating your 100th home anniversary in just a few days next year,
there isn't a better time to share this report with you so as i always do i'd
like to take you back to 1925 and share a few of the top stories that were happening at the time,
in moncton new brunswick in february of 1925 the canadian national railway center
transmits the first regular Canadian radio program to be heard in Britain.
In Niagara Falls in May of 1925, 24 high-powered electric lamps illuminate the
falls at night for the first time.
One other interesting story is in St.
John's, Newfoundland in 1926, the government establishments establishes government
sale and control of liquor and the rest is history.
So now let's talk a little bit about the history of your property.
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Of backstories, as many backstories as I can possibly give you.
And these of course contain very specific information, the names of the previous
owners, how much they paid, details about the property, which of course I won't
share here, but I'm happy to send to you.
And what these do sometimes is they might give you some insight,
Joanna, on things that were done with the property perhaps before you moved
in and maybe you didn't even know.
One of these situations could involve that the property was upgraded.
Plumbing was done. Wiring was done. things you might not know were done before
you moved in might help give you some insight on, of course, the property.
I'm sure, like most, you've probably done a lot of work since you moved in in the late 90s.
And of course, Toronto was a very different place in the late 90s.
Anybody who was there, myself included, bought my first house in 1998 in East
York everyone told me it was a crazy idea.
And all of us who did.
Did fairly well because of the fact that we bought at what was probably the
lowest point in the Toronto market in a decade.
The early 90s were very turbulent. The market peaked in 89 and then it just
dropped continuously and it didn't recover, in fact, for 12 years.
Something a lot of people don't know so i'm
going to go into the fact that i've got information
here that i can share with you this is only if
you're interested if not no problem but
if you're interested i can give you some of the previous owner's
information on top
of that what i'm able to do is also give you some very specific details on information
that is in the files with a company called Protect Your Boundaries.
And this is important for everyone who's listening to know that this should
be an absolute must for all of you whenever you're buying or selling a property.
This company is fairly new in the last few years they weren't around when i
started but thankfully they are around and what they allow you to do is to access
reports on your property going back,
as far and this is also with the help of other resources and other technology
but this helps you go as far back for your property as 1925,
where you'll be able to get an actual survey of the property.
So you'll see exactly what it looked like then.
You'll also be able to get a plan of subdivision from that time.
So that'll actually show you how your street looked back then,
which is very powerful. It sort of gives you an idea of what things look like.
And then again which is
not always the case there is a 70 1974 version
of a survey so what that tells me this is just because i review these and i
study these surveys and plans and i have hard drives full of these because i
studied them closely i can tell you that this home probably had some major work done in 1974.
And then on top of that, there's another survey in 1989.
So chances are more work was done then.
And this is the story of a lot of East York homes.
So they may have been built in the twenties, but very often there was kitchen
additions done a decade or two or three later.
Additions may be on top as well, very common.
So each survey is available to you to purchase.
They usually range about $500 for the surveys. They're not cheap.
But what I always suggest is as the homeowner of your property,
for you to be the most informed person about your property.
Which also gives you an advantage when it is time for your story to be told if and when you choose,
to sell your property anytime soon and I'm able to feature it here as.
A featured property on my This House Has a Podcast series which is extremely
powerful for everyone who's part of it.
And lastly, I'm going to mention that there are two easements mentioned for
the property, meaning that there's two, two easements registered.
And usually what these are in most cases are bell telephone, or sometimes, uh,
to do with, um, access for um the railways that are in the area sometimes so it could be anything,
very common i've seen everything from zero easements to as many as 20 easements so.
All kinds of uh possibilities for
you to look into and again i'll send
you the links if you'd if you'd like them to get
the either the buyer's report the easement reports
or the seller's report for your property and you'll
have the option to have that and access all of
the old surveys and if you don't need
them for the paperwork part of it i will tell you that they make really great
wall art and that's and i suggest this to anyone listening if you do have any
old historical documents about your property or your community,
nothing is more interesting than someone walking into your home,
into your living room, and seeing those old 1920s or 1970s surveys and asking
you, you know, what's that about?
And it's a story that connects to your property and its history.
Thank you for tuning in today. I hope you've enjoyed this episode.
And by all means, if you'd like your own episode of this podcast,
please reach out to me and I'd be more than happy to put one together for you.
Thanks for tuning in and have a great day.