Home construction prices in Canada...what the heck is going on?

[clemsonfor]

My aunt had her house and an Inlaw suite house built for herself. She was basically a GC with her main crew working for the hour. The guy building it would normally be more like a GC but worked for her. I think he was paid around $15/hr and guys around $10ish, but this was 15 years or so ago.

It took them 10 months or so, had a few subs but was really just the 3 of them maybe 4.

 

[MotorSeven]

And as far as Canada's real estate bubble. I have heard all the explanations, from family and friends there...but I ain't buying it. There is a bubble and it's going to burst, it's just a matter of when and how hard. Houses in my wife's home town doubled then tripled in the last 8 years(I know because we bought and sold two of them)....I don't care who ya are, but that is "abby noormal" (said by Igor in Young Frankenstein). And on top of that they are still rising, yet income is not. I hope for all Canadians sake I am wrong, because I truly do not want to see y'all go through what we are going through...it sucks.

 

[MotorSeven]

You have to pay medical fees (we pay $116 per month for the 2 of us).

No no no, that slubberdegullion Michael Moore made a million bucks doing a movie that said your health care is TOTALLY FREEullinghair:

:laughing:

 

[WilliamBos]

No no no, that slubberdegullion Michael Moore made a million bucks doing a movie that said your health care is TOTALLY FREEullinghair:

:laughing:

Yeah, did you notice his salivia is crap brown!

 

[Mike476]

Free, what's that saying, gas grass or..................... no one rides for free!

 

[dclynch]

Heres the deal. A doctor went to college for a minimum of 4 years undergrad. Today that costs close to $20k/yr everything included. You have to be at the top of a class to be accepted to med school, thats i think 3 years, maybe 4 i cant remember. Which again is big bucks, then find a residency for 3 more years or so then another if they specialize, say eye surgery or something. Then they have bills sometimes upward of $.5million to repay.

Oh and there is the thing about your life or welfare is in thier care. If the carpenter screws up your out money and a good job, unless a total hack he could cause a house to collapse?

Take me for example, when i was 14 i was working for a trim carpenter/cabinet maker/custom stair builder. I worked there through the first few years of highschool. then went on to the retail type stores. I was interested in carpentry and building, but more to know how to do it for my self and projects. Once in it and when i was doing it i realized i never wnated to be a builder/carpenter. BUT had i wanted to and went straight into it after high school by the time my current self graduated college with all my degrees 6 years, my carpenter self would have had 6 years full time. In that time i think since i am a quick learner that i would have been a decent carpenter, no expert but could definitly handle many jobs on my own. And if in an area where a "decent carpenter" could make $40+/hr say after these 6+ years i was working instead of in college. Point here is i wont ever make $60/hr in my current line of work, and i have 2 college degrees. I also know a college degree is not an automatic ticket to making that kind of money but something is seriously wrong when a "above average" carpenter makes more than a person like me with 2 degrees, graduated #2 in my major and runs a multi million dollar program?

Sounds to me like your jealous. Should of stuck to carpentry. I have 2 sons who are both Journey Men carpenters they make roughly 30 dollars a hour. Now let me tell you the bad parts. 1 works out of state and is able to make it home 1 week end a month the other drives 2 hours one way to work. They work outside whether it is 100 or -30 degrees. Between wearing out vehicles and paying for airfare and missing out on their family lives tell me who is making more?

 

[WilliamBos]

I worked with journeymen painters that pulled $150,000 a year. We don't work cheap up here, but we don't live cheap either.

 

[clemsonfor]

Yea im jealous of making $60/hr, but not as a carpenter. I am a forester. Well now im in a truck or office more than the woods, but when i started it was outside here in the south, we dont get -30 we may make it to 30F but yea we hit 100. I use to drive 1 hour each way to work. The trick is to always drive $5k dollar vehicles or less , anything else your wasting your money as you wear um out in no time, Have to have a small car as truck maintenece fuel and tires will kill ya. But here is a though, why dont they move closer to their work! If thier making that kind of $$ and the RE market is that good, just sell and move the fam close to work? I do understand the wear your from ... hometown thing, but either 1 hour in a car a day or 4 it seems like a no brainer.

Im still with MO7 its gonna burst its just a matter of 6 months or 5 years? A doctor must be making 2.5million/yr if a carpenter is making that much? I know of docs in this area only making a few hundred thousand a year!! And thier 60 working in a privite practice as a parter, which is not a Hospital owned practice but still!

 

[Qapla]

... A doctor must be making 2.5million/yr if a carpenter is making that much?

Why MUST a doctor make so much more? What is wrong with carpenters making professional wages ... after all, they are professionals!

Perhaps we should quit thinking that just because someone has education bills to pay they should be allowed to make more than someone who who has bills to pay from learning their trade "the old fashioned way" and has bought all their own tools in order to do their craft.

 

[CinderSchnauzer]

I worked with journeymen painters that pulled $150,000 a year. We don't work cheap up here, but we don't live cheap either.

Maybe if the Docs joined UAW or IBEW they'd be making $150K as well. (<-;