Calgary real estate prospects

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

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Either my neighbors are are amazing, or my infill is built better. We have never heard music, TV, voices, footsteps, or even doors closing.
Been in that house 14 years now. Noise has never been a problem.

Maybe you’re just deaf and you’re the noisy one?

[haggis88]

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Maybe you’re just deaf and you’re the noisy one?

Oh how the turntables

[msommers]

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Your friends are the lucky exception. Our building standards aren’t so bad that voices carry, but it’s when you have heavy footed neighbours going up and down the stairs, and things like that.

I lived in an infill with a shared wall once. Sold it after a year, it was miserable.

Depends if the stairs are on the outside or against the common wall.

We live "with a roommate" as a semi-binary housing establishment. Apparently our neighbours have church choir or something, haven't heard anything. Some places have a concrete divider, doubt ours does but our builder made some wildly expensive fixture/feature choices while also making bizarre design choices, so it wouldn't surprise me.

A few friends of ours are also in semi-binary housing. Some complain about stair noise, others don't, some new builds some a decade or more older.

Fucking attic rain seems to hit people more than anything, regardless if attached or detached. Unless it's a 50/60s bungalow, then it's basement water issues. Price point doesn't seem to a factor in either case.

[ThePenIsMightier]

I (essentially) used to live in a Bachelor Suite in a super old Heritage House in Victoria. It was converted to like 4 different suites and most of the time, most of them were empty... Until this fucking dirty foreign soccer player moved into one of them. His name was Luis but pronounced with that super fruity Latin accent. I think he was from Argentina, or some shit. Only English he knew was how to say his stupid name.
I swear to Jewish God that this fucking idiot would put soccer cleats on before his feet touched the floor from waking up. The noise of this idiot walking around was omnipresent. I hated that guy so much, I used to interrupt the coin washing machine, piss in it and then chuckle as I had to pay to start his cycle again.
I'm glad that others who share walls or floors don't have to deal with Luis or piss in his laundry...

[ExtraSlow]

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Maybe you’re just deaf and you’re the noisy one?

This is what I assumed, but when I put rhe house up for sale in 2013 or whatever, the neighbors came over immediately and told me not to move because I'm "such a great neighbor". Apparently they never hear either of my kids cry, and my kids cried A LOT as babies.
Anyway, apparently it's possible to build an A-tached home without massive noise transference.

[jabjab]

Some builders don't put the appropriate sound bars and sound insulation as they intend to just flip it. Concrete party wall is the best but rarely done due to cost

[mr2mike]

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Which for all intents and purposes, is the same shit.

A separate land title when your structure shares a wall is essentially meaningless.

You might have the land title but is it really yours?

[killramos]

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You might have the land title but is it really yours?

The semantics are especially hilarious if the lot was subdivided in the first place

[ExtraSlow]

We are all living on lots subdivided from the indigenous peoplekinds.

[msommers]

You guys don't acknowledge Treaty 7 each time you enter your house?

[vengie]

Bunch of ungrateful racists

[killramos]

Never heard of him

[ThePenIsMightier]

I was going for "expert" but decided to roll with it.
Oh, Google!

[ExtraSlow]

You are never that far from an Indian.

[dirtsniffer]

SW: Tsuu Tina
NW: Stoney Nakoda
SE: Siksika
NE: uh..

[ExtraSlow]

Dot Nation.

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Different kind of Indian in the NE.

[bjstare]

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Different kind of Indian in the NE.

Dot, not feather.

[max_boost]

Lol wow. You guys always impress me lol

[rage2]

Watching Paul Rudd in I Love You Man made me like realtors again.