Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, John.
This is Paul Andrigo, realestatepodcastshow.com. Today is your big day.
This is the history, the home history of your property in the East York community.
And I am so happy to be able to present this to you. I've done all the required
research and accessed as much as I can about your property.
So we're going to start off with a little bit of history in terms of what was
going on in 1929 when your home was built.
The first thing that we have to discuss, of course, it was the start of the Great Depression.
This happened in October of 1929 following the stock market crash.
The Toronto Stock Exchange suffered its worst loss in history,
plunging the city into an economic hardship.
This had a very profound effect on Torontonians, leading to record levels of
high unemployment at the time and significant drops in wages.
In terms of landmarks being built aside from your home, the Royal York Hotel
opened its doors in the same year your home was built, June 11th, 1929.
This hotel, which is now part of the Fairmont chain, has since been a backdrop
for numerous Hollywood films and performances by renowned artists such as Ella
Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.
It was once the tallest building in Canada and briefly in the British Empire,
showcasing a blend of chateauesque,
art deco and Romanesque architectural styles.
So now it's time to do a little bit of a deep dive into the story of your property.
So looking back, I've got records, I've got access to records that go back as far as 1928.
So as far as the sort of the origins of the street, this was the time of year.
This was the this was the plan that actually set up the neighborhood. hood.
So prior to building properties, there has to be a subdivision plan in mind
so that the builders knew how they were going to proceed and access to all of
these reports is available, uh, by request.
So if you want to purchase any of these records, which are, again,
I don't sell them. This is not my side business.
Um, I simply am the storyteller and I'll give you all the links that you need.
And it's through an organization called Protect Your Boundaries.
So there is a plan of subdivision and there is also a survey of the property
and possibly two, but at least one link, two links, possibly the same thing.
But that is for the survey of the property as it was built then.
And as we all know in East York and Danforth area homes, there really isn't one actual age.
There are usually different ages of the property in terms of when the original home was built.
Sometimes there was a back extension. Sometimes the kitchen wasn't even in the
property when the house was built.
It was added on 10 years later. It's just the way homes were built.
There was no rules back then. And there are some rules now, but there was definitely no rules back then.
And it sometimes gave you some insights as to what, you know,
what was going on with your property then.
So to give you a background in terms of the available property history,
the furthest the property history goes back in my records, obviously not the
city records, but in my records, it goes right back to the year 2000.
And it has the information about, again, your property and how much you paid for it.
So that also was something that I can send you by all means if you would like that report.
And lastly, I want to make sure that you have access to, again,
everything to do with the records and including, uh,
the mention of, there are the, there is the mention of potentially up to two
easements on your property.
And I do like to use this podcast as an opportunity to, um.
Give you the information about easements that not everyone understands and not
everyone knows the importance of.
Because having certain easements on your property can be a very big issue.
In most cases, it's something like a bell telephone easement where they can
access the property to fix their lines.
Or in some cases, and I've had one on my property, a fire hydrant.
A very good thing by the way if you do have one
or one nearby of course for insurance um they
like to know that there's a way for them to put a fire out
a lot quicker uh the closer you
are to a fire hydrant um but it's important to know what these easements are
because um over the years i've had people reach out to me uh with horrible stories
and this is not my not clients of mine these are other people who went through a purchase, um.
Uh, sales scenario where they sold their house.
They were all excited about buying their next property. Uh, and then they went
and found out that the easements on the property actually stopped them from
being able to build their dream home or put in a pool, things of that nature.
And you should know as much about your property, John, as anybody else does
and preferably more and telling those stories,
knowing who the people that may have lived there before you,
um, is a work in progress.
So whenever I share these podcasts on my series, uh, there's always a lot of
really great discussion and people saying.
Um, they know about these properties and if, and if, and when you wanted to
have this property, um, podcast on, uh,
featured on your property, if you wanted to actually have the,
uh, this house has a podcast lawn sign, uh, it may also have other people in the area.
Um, a lot of people will have other stories to share. There are some of them
that are not written down anywhere.
In some cases, it's someone's grandparents who told them a story about your property 50 years ago.
And then they would think that it might be an interesting thing to add.
I've done, I've had this happen.
And it's a wonderful collaboration that, again, was totally not planned.
So I hope this podcast of your property was interesting.
I hope it taught you a few things. And by all means, let's consider this a work in progress.
And hopefully as the time goes
by, and if you ever do decide that you feel like selling the property,
this will be a great opportunity for your story to be out there for people to
know about and for people to hear.
And it definitely makes a tremendous difference in terms of what the end result is.
Because if people hear a story about a property like yours and fall in love
with your home, even before it's on the market, it can make a tremendous difference in the end result.
And it focuses on attracting those people who love things about your property,
especially when there's an opportunity for me to do a walkthrough and to discuss
the architecture and all that stuff that I have not done yet.
And I hope I'm able to do that soon. but when I do that for my properties for
sale, it makes a huge difference.
So thanks again for tuning in. I hope you've enjoyed this episode and by all
means, stay tuned in for the next one.