Calgary real estate prospects

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Someone needs to build with 89bradleycouper and do a full review

[msommers]

Of the two realtors on this site, which one to use...

[R-Audi]

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You can build a new home to look however you want it to look like. The positive is everything is new.

I’m not a fan of buying an old house with an old foundation, old wiring, plumbing, insulation, etc.

No thanks

Thats fair... but then budget definitely comes into play for me. Not too many knock downs in areas that I like, which would then be financially viable to buy then tear down and build again. My two favorites are Mayfair and Eagle Ridge and either would be tight to even get into, let alone tear down and start from scratch.
I quite like the original designs and build quality, then again I also collect Mid Century furniture and would rather spend thousands restoring/reupholstering a 1960s danish chair then buy something new.

Certainly not in the Major President/CEO budget category..

[2Legit2Quit]

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Of the two realtors on this site, which one to use...

If you use coupe make sure you buy him the finest bottle of Captain Morgans you can afford as a working professional as thanks for his efforts.

[Xamim]

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Of the two realtors on this site, which one to use...

I'm sure Jordan is doing one of these from the last few pages.

[Neil4Speed]

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Geez, it's been awhile since I've cracked off some T-tests and other nerdy bullshit. But, I think the preference should be to normalize the data and then look to the mean and the Std Dev to tell a better story. Or, trim the outliers to narrow the bell curve.

The median is too skewed by the tail isn't it? If Bezos is in your sample, it indicates a completely unrepresentative median that's like 5 SD's away from the "entire" population.

At the end of the day, I think "average" people (idiocracy) are too stupid to process Mean with SD, so we get stuck with a metric that seems simpler, but doesn't tell us much. And perhaps more importantly, it makes people think "oh I'm not doing so bad" instead of "I should revolt against the govt immediately because I'm getting dry-fisted!"

Fair explanation, I figure a median probably is OK in this scenario as Suntan mentioned with the large datasets.

[89coupe]

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Thats fair... but then budget definitely comes into play for me. Not too many knock downs in areas that I like, which would then be financially viable to buy then tear down and build again. My two favorites are Mayfair and Eagle Ridge and either would be tight to even get into, let alone tear down and start from scratch.
I quite like the original designs and build quality, then again I also collect Mid Century furniture and would rather spend thousands restoring/reupholstering a 1960s danish chair then buy something new.

Certainly not in the Major President/CEO budget category..

If you have the patience and the knowledge you can build a home yourself, as in source out your own trades.

You can do it for half the cost.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Fair explanation, I figure a median probably is OK in this scenario as Suntan mentioned with the large datasets.

Well, yes, but only if there are equivalent tails on either side. And are there? I think the tail on the Infinity side is a lot longer than the zero side.
But as I say that, I can picture my cranky German lady Prof shitting on me for trimming outliers.

[suntan]

Very good point, but there's probably not enough occurrences on the long end to still make a material difference. Such is the power of the people.

[bjstare]

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If you have the patience and the knowledge you can build a home yourself, as in source out your own trades.

You can do it for half the cost.

Are you suggesting that the average guy can just pick up the phone and hire a reliable and high quality [insert trade here]?

If so, I have news for you.

[XylathaneGTR]

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If you have the patience and the knowledge you can build a home yourself, as in source out your own trades.
You can do it for half the cost.

More quality and well validated advice from this top tier professional!

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Are you suggesting that the average guy can just pick up the phone and hire a reliable and high quality [insert trade here]?
If so, I have news for you.

Backpedaling and goalpost moving incoming...

[suntan]

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If you have the patience and the knowledge you can build a home yourself, as in source out your own trades.

You can do it for half the cost.

Yeah that's simply not true. Lots of tradespeople will only work with a GC because most people are total fucking idiots.

[89coupe]

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Are you suggesting that the average guy can just pick up the phone and hire a reliable and high quality [insert trade here]?

If so, I have news for you.

If you have the knowledge and contacts, yes.

[suntan]

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If you have the knowledge and contacts, yes.

That's not the "average" guy.

[XylathaneGTR]

If you have the patience, knowledge, and contacts, you can build a rocket and land on the moon!
-89coupe, probably.

[suntan]

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If you have the patience, knowledge, and contacts, you can take over 89coupe's business

Somebody do this.

[89coupe]

5000 real estate agents in this city, if they can do it, you can do it. Haha

[XylathaneGTR]

I feel like we've gone full circle on threads. I swear there was a thread or discussion (maybe earlier in here?) about the value a realtor provides and why one should, or shouldn't, use one.

[suntan]

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5000 real estate agents in this city, if they can do it, you can do it. Haha

I like to move boulders, and believe me I have.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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I feel like we've gone full circle on threads. I swear there was a thread or discussion (maybe earlier in here?) about the value a realtor provides and why one should, or shouldn't, use one.

I don't think so. The whole thread was started by that angry man in Asia who lives in a cupboard and thinks Killy is spoiled.