Instead they find someone in their network, like a friend or friends adult child that is studying who can stay there and they pay a trivial rent to “take care of the house”

Some buyers that bought pre sale say at 700k maybe put down 120k and now the units are worth 600k and can only get a mortgage for 600k, have to come up with the extra 100k.

Lots of the supply is tiny condos that are not as desirable as a house for having a family.

the clamp down on Airbnb has also hurt the market for these tiny condos.

Also canada reduced the rate of immigration so demand isn’t increasing as quickly. The population of British Columbia decreased.

A hotel in Vancouver for a night in the summer is $400+

Patents are difficult to enforce internationally

Where would coke be if the recipe was patented instead of trade secret ?

Thanks

There is a limit to the size of the instantaneous increases and decreases in generation that the other generators on the grid can compensate for

Yes surely some days are cloudy

So some days you get 5% capacity factor, and need some other energy source as well

So it harms the economics of the venture

Look at the profitability of companies building utility scale solar farms, they cost 100 million and the company hopes to get a 10% return and pay a 3% dividend.

They still have to contend with moving parts for tracking the angle of the sun, fans on inverters, contactors, clearing snow, mowing grass, site drainage, tornadoes etc, so sometimes it is not as easy as it sounds

All for a 7%? Why shouldn’t they just buy the s&p 500 and call it a day

Great idea !

To catch them all it logs the user out so buttons which affect the process are disabled, but now it can be annoying to be logged out after x minutes and always logging in.