Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon.
This is the latest episode of This House Has a Podcast. And today is going to
be another home history podcast.
This is for a wonderful property in Toronto.
And I am so happy to be able to do this review for you.
And I wanted to make sure that I go over all the details for the owner of the property.
And as much as I can share the stories with all of you, I think everyone benefits
from hearing these stories.
So the great news about this particular property that I'm helping do a report
on today is this property was built in the 1920s.
And specifically, this property was built in 1922.
And when I, when I create these reports for people,
and when I give you all of the information behind it, I like to make sure that
you see that there is a storyline behind every home,
including a story about people that lived there long before you.
And in many cases, there's two things that I find that most homeowners do not know.
Even if you've lived there for 10 or 15 or 20 years, the majority of you do
not know when your house was built and you don't know who the previous owners were.
And it's not going to change a heck of a lot about your property,
but it will give you some insights, some behind the scenes information that
can somehow connect you to the property, even as far back as you can find records for,
including finding some of the people that used to own the property on Facebook or on Ancestry.
And I've had clients of mine go into complete family tree mode looking for the
previous owners and looking for stories and photos and all that kind of great
stuff because a lot of that information is gone when those people are gone.
So it's important for you to understand that if you want to do a really thorough
history report of your property, it's important that you start it today,
and I've started it for you.
So this is now a work in progress, but let's start off as I do always in talking
about what Toronto was like during this time.
In the early twenties, the population of Toronto was approximately half a million people.
So obviously a very different city than it was now.
This decade saw the beginnings of of Toronto's multicultural evolution,
with increasing numbers of people from all over the world immigrating into this city.
The city's skyline also started to change with the construction of notable landmarks.
For example, Union Station opened in 1927.
And when this home was built.
Many areas of the city were still not established. Some areas were actually
out of the city limits of Toronto.
So it was a very, very different place.
So let me get into a little bit more specific history with this property.
So for this particular report today, I've got ownership records going back to the 1950s.
And with these reports there
isn't always um sometimes as
time goes by a lot of details have been uh
changed and misplaced so some
of the property uh listings will have names on them and some of them will not
it depends on uh which ones that i send you but i'm going to be more than happy
to send you this report for starters uh and the other thing that you'll have
access to as well is a copy of the survey,
the survey of the property from 1922.
And you'll have the option if you wish to purchase it, it'll basically give you a preview.
It's called protect your boundaries. And what they do is they give you access
to all sorts of really great information that comes from geo warehouse,
which is the government database of everything that, but every detail,
every digital file that's on your property.
They've got a copy of, and you'll have access to it if you wish.
You can get a copy of a buyer's report, an easement report, and the seller's
report as well. Your choices are up to you.
But there are two easements on your particular property.
And I always suggest that you make this the beginning of your storytelling.
Journey and find out as much as possible beyond this podcast.
I hope this opens a few doors, but by all means, there's a lot more doors to be opened.
And once you get the history of your property, you're going to want to collect all of those documents.
And even if you're not that interested in having the documents for that reason,
these documents also make great wall art for your property.
I've always suggested that if you're going to be putting things on your wall,
definitely consider some degree of historical documents, old maps.
Those are 1,000 times better than putting up art that you might find at HomeSense.
No offense to HomeSense, but.
You'd rather have something that has a really great story attached to it.
And I do hope that this information at least gets you some idea of where your
property, you know, where the story of your property came from.
And I look forward to helping you unlock many more chapters together.
If you do want anything more beyond this,
if you want something to discuss about property values,
If you want the local neighborhood news reports that are absolutely a game changer
for all of my clients and fans and podcast listeners,
definitely reach out and I'll make sure that you have all of those invite links
and you'll be very glad to have all the same information that I do.
And it'll give you really great insights on what's happening to your property
value and keep you up to date in real time.
Thanks again for tuning in. I hope you've enjoyed this and by all means,
follow up with me if you have any other questions.