i’m trying to sell my home on the lower part of Graham and i’ve had alot of people viewing. nice home, good price but wouldn’t want to live here with pellet facility in front of me. you seem to have all the answers, why won’t my house sell?[/quote]
Because you people are scaring the shit out of everyone with your fear mongering. You have screwed it up for yourselves. What do you expect with all the negative publicity? I’m doing more for selling your place with my positive outlook than you are with your negative one.
Oh, and I don’t have all the answers. I have some pretty strong, educated opinion though.
That must be a very democratic and beautiful 3rd world dictatorship community, but I think a comparison to the fictional Kazakh village of Kuzcek is more fitting.
You should really take that back. How on earth do they know the waterfront area adjacent to their property is an industrial wasteland for many decades? I would assume they weren’t Rupertites back in the 70’s.
Nobody is going to buy a house on lower graham or atlin, water or beach, that’s why I said its the people of this area that are going to be paying for pinnacles facility. The common people will lose to big corporations and pay a huge price, after all a house is most people’s biggest asset. The average house will drop around 50 to 100 grand each, I would bet this may happen on 1st ave too, and as I said before this will increase everyone else’s taxes, For 10 jobs 100s maybe thousands of lives will be adversly affected. WTF
Those houses were all standing and were bought an sold when the grain elevator was there. Lower Graham may be more adversely affected, but even then, I’m not sure. Most of those houses have their views obstructed by bush. Housing prices will go up there like every other one in town when we start thriving again. That’ll only happen with development.
I don’t believe anyone will buy our house now either, the view is the only thing it has going for it. Maybe this company wants to buy them, then when thing start booming they could make even more money.
This is what was at the Westview location from the 1920’s to the late 1980’s. Click on “Ports”. As you can see there was a lot of residential development between the time the photos were taken and the elevator w as demolished. Correct me if I’m wrong but aside from the mansion on Water St I don’t know of a single house being built after te elevator was taken down.
i’m trying to sell my home on the lower part of Graham and i’ve had alot of people viewing. nice home, good price but wouldn’t want to live here with pellet facility in front of me. you seem to have all the answers, why won’t my house sell?[/quote]
good price? most of the houses on Graham, well in town overall, are over priced, I think I seen 2 that weren’t ridiculously priced on Graham.
Is a house worth anything if you can’t sell it? And yeah crazy train I figured you probably worked for the port, just because someone doesn’t think like you doesn’t mean they’re "nutters"as you put it you big bully.
If your house loses “value” from the terminal then it was overvalued to begin with. If you buy next to industrial zoned land you shouldnt be surprised if industry is built next to you.
Punishing your neighbours by preventing them from getting jobs to protect your poor investment is a pretty shitty thing to do. Take your lumps, learn your lesson do your due diligence before making a large purchase next time.
Oh and this anti industry stance is setting back rupert more than you can imagine. Prince rupert has so much potential but industry looks to more business friendly communities and uses prince rupert as a last resort. Attitudes like this arent helping.
I don’t work for the port. The two documents I provided are available on their website. I’m just a resident who has done their best to educate myself on the pros, cons and facts.
When did I ever call anyone a nutter? Look back and you’ll see that it wasn’t me. Look whose calling people names now. I’m no bully, just passionate with my opinion and in doing my small part in trying to turn this community around.
i’m trying to sell my home on the lower part of Graham and i’ve had alot of people viewing. nice home, good price but wouldn’t want to live here with pellet facility in front of me. you seem to have all the answers, why won’t my house sell?[/quote]
i’ll bite why it isn’t selling . it’s probably overpriced even tho you think it isn’t. you are probably trying to get back what you paid on an overpriced house for a view of water hundreds of meters away . the waterviews in this town are totally overpriced for what you get in my mind
after seeing their plan it doesn’t bug me if it goes there… anyone have an idea of how much the city benefits from taxing them? too bad it’s only 10 jobs though
Everyone is talking as if the elevator was in that spot recently, it has been over a quarter of a century, different people moved into those houses, some are retired or maybe sick, if they can’t sell they can’t move. It’s so simple to tell people to move on, take the loss, it may be their only asset, they will have to stay and suffer. People who have payed their taxes, supported this community, have been good citizens, should they get treated like crap?
They bought there knowing it was next to industrial zoned land, the land was unused for years but is still industrial land. While it sucks they may lose out on some imaginary value that never existed there is no reason to punish the entire town for their poor investment. You arent being treated like crap you just arent having your ass kissed by the rest of the city.
Any “value” your house loses if this goes forward was never there to begin with because it should have been devalued by the same amount based on the fact there might have been something industrial built next to it. Sucks you got suckered.