OT: Sens Lounge -The four seasons edition

[mysens]

We drive by alot on the way up to the cottage, always seems busy and a fun area for families. Also really good atv and snowmobile trail access if you're into that sort of thing.

Holy tooter....nice brag on owning a cottage. I usually rent one. Must be nice.

 

[Masked]

Holy tooter....nice brag on owning a cottage. I usually rent one. Must be nice.

Renting a cottage? How gauche!

 

[Stylizer1]

Well, the points you made weren't particularly relevant. Its not like baseball is only played in America and Japan, they could have completed left out the regions where the sports are popular with no real impact.

There's certainly questions as to how they came to the numbers, which I pointed out, in my response, it's a discussion board and I'm discussing, sorry that you are so sensitive to having your position critiqued..

Ok, so my kids play baseball and soccer, but don't follow any teams. Are they fans of the sport? I don't follow any NFL teams but get together with friends to watch games. Am I a fan of the sport even if I'm not a fan of any particular team?

I think it's being lose with the term fan, but that's fine when identifying the popularity of a sport rather than a team.

Where in my post does it show I am sensitive? Because you are looking to start an argument because you can't get over the fact you can't use auto correct as an excuse and got laughed at is not my problem.

 

[Micklebot]

Where in my post does it show I am sensitive? Because you are looking to start an argument because you can't get over the fact you can't use auto correct as an excuse and got laughed at is not my problem.

Somebody is triggered...

 

[mysens]

Somebody is triggered...

This guy is always triggered it seems.

 

[StoicSensFan]

Holy tooter....nice brag on owning a cottage. I usually rent one. Must be nice.

When did I say it was mine? lol

 

[OmniSens]

We drive by alot on the way up to the cottage, always seems busy and a fun area for families. Also really good atv and snowmobile trail access if you're into that sort of thing.

Used to camp there as a kid. I've sense bought my own trailer and move it there last weekend.

 

[Stylizer1]

Somebody is triggered...

you win.

 

[Relapsing]

Used to camp there as a kid. I've sense bought my own trailer and move it there last weekend.

Careful now, you're gonna get pulled over by the spelling police

 

[Stylizer1]

Careful now, you're gonna get pulled over by the spelling police

Just a warning, you forgot the period after police.

 

[OmniSens]

Careful now, you're gonna get pulled over by the spelling police

You have too much time on your hands.

 

[Relapsing]

You have too much time on your hands.

Yeah, probably

 

[Beech]

I have taken to riding my steel bike with 30 mm, knobby tyres, meant for cyclocross. Even then, I get flats. The roads are terrible.

So, last weekend, I decided to take my time trial bike out. It is old, 650 c tires (roughly 25" dia). Tyres for them are exclusively 23-25 mm, slicks. Risky.. but fun, I can hit, 50 kmh. Which for a 60 year old is joy. but you feel every indentation in the road. And these roads are bad.

Around Earl Armstrong and up River, towards Hunt Club... Wah, the shape River road was in..

So, I get brave again this Saturday and repeat the loop.. They have patched River road.. I mean, one patch after another. Cheap mix of asphalt and polymer additives that dries to create a bond.. You can buy the stuff at Home Depot, My neioghbour and I repaired our driveway earlier that Saturday.

The patches, which are in the dozens, many cover 2-3 M of length and across the entire street, stick up about 1/2" to 1"...

And these patches only fixed about 50% of all damage.

Now here is the beauty... I worked for the owners of a company that produces the stuff (In a different department and on a different product line)... SURFACE patching does not work... It is like painting over rotted wood. It does not hold.

And.. we have winter, the most destructive beast. And we have snow ploughs. Driven at 60-80 kmh and with shovels that are steel and will plane everything below them. They will lift the patches.

And since about 50% of all damage was repaired, holes and cracks will still fill up with water, then freeze and the crack and damage grows worse.

DON'T accept this folks. THIS IS YOUR CITY. your cars. It will be your cars damaged. It is your neighbourhoods that deteriorate.

Patch work is what 3rd world nations and Quebec does!!! DON'T ACCEPT IT.

I dropped $500 in 1996 on a damaged wheel, after I hit a pot hole on the HWY 40 (Quebec's portion of the 401). That is $1000 in today's dollars.

Pot holes, indentations, crevasses are nucleation zones for ice. Black ice.. You skid, you get into an accident. You get injured or die.

I have seen this city decay something awful in the 25 years of living here. From a beautifully manicured, well cared for city, to a patched streets and uncared for environment. It has gone from being a Hamlet, to being borderline 3rd world!!!

Don't accept. Don't sit ideally by!!

 

[coladin]

Renting a cottage? How gauche!

I love renting. I have so many properties, it is just the business that I am in, that the last thing I want is another property to own and look after. I love renting for a week, get my fill, and drop off the keys.

Same with any vacation properties. Friends of mine have places in Florida, really nice, but I have the same argument for those as well. I will gladly rent and give back the headache. Never wanted anything to tie me down and not go somewhere else because I haven't gone to the cottage enough...of course those passed through generations is a different story

 

[mysens]

I love renting. I have so many properties, it is just the business that I am in, that the last thing I want is another property to own and look after. I love renting for a week, get my fill, and drop off the keys.

Same with any vacation properties. Friends of mine have places in Florida, really nice, but I have the same argument for those as well. I will gladly rent and give back the headache. Never wanted anything to tie me down and not go somewhere else because I haven't gone to the cottage enough...of course those passed through generations is a different story

Same, I would rather travel to many places and experience different things

 

[StoicSensFan]

I love renting. I have so many properties, it is just the business that I am in, that the last thing I want is another property to own and look after. I love renting for a week, get my fill, and drop off the keys.

Same with any vacation properties. Friends of mine have places in Florida, really nice, but I have the same argument for those as well. I will gladly rent and give back the headache. Never wanted anything to tie me down and not go somewhere else because I haven't gone to the cottage enough...of course those passed through generations is a different story

They must be sweating at the moment, ouch

 

[Crosside]

Reconstruction: un minimum de 4-5 ans selon Pierre Dorion – BPM Sports

Pierre Dorion nous parle des dessus d'un processus de reconstruction et de la réalité unique qu'il avait dans cette situation à Ottawa.

bpmsports.ca

 

[jbeck5]

Same, I would rather travel to many places and experience different things

Boy do you experience different things at family cottages.

Especially if you have a group that grew up going to the cottage with people the same age as neighbours all around..

At 14-15 we all got drunk together for the first time...smoked weed together for the first time. Would take turns hosting parties with our friends from the city at 17-18-19...

And now in our 30s were all still so tight and hang out every week or weekend with our young babies...we do dinner parties in the winter at our houses...but for like 8 months of the year, we all have our places together with our beds and a big beach and tennis court and basketball court and hot tubs and pools, etc. The list goes on. It's like we have a communal luxury spa party area 30 mins from downtown Ottawa where we can go any weekend we like and party it up.

That's not to say we never airbnb a big 8 bedroom place for $2,000 for a weekend and every couple has a room.

Family cottages are the best. They just take some work. Every weekend you do 1-2 hours of work, and then play the rest of the weekend. Free.

We have 3 family cottages so it is a bit more work, but that means me and my sisters each get out own cottage down the road.

Were not rich, my dad just bought in the 70s for like 4-8k per waterfront cottage...it's like the equivalent of buying cottages for 50k each lol just being smart. Properties skyrocketed in the 80s and 90s.

 

[coladin]

They must be sweating at the moment, ouch

Most of those places are on the other coast, but do have some in Naples and Ft. Myers. What a constant headache to live with

 

[NyQuil]

Boy do you experience different things at family cottages.

Especially if you have a group that grew up going to the cottage with people the same age as neighbours all around..

At 14-15 we all got drunk together for the first time...smoked weed together for the first time. Would take turns hosting parties with our friends from the city at 17-18-19...

And now in our 30s were all still so tight and hang out every week or weekend with our young babies...we do dinner parties in the winter at our houses...but for like 8 months of the year, we all have our places together with our beds and a big beach and tennis court and basketball court and hot tubs and pools, etc. The list goes on. It's like we have a communal luxury spa party area 30 mins from downtown Ottawa where we can go any weekend we like and party it up.

That's not to say we never airbnb a big 8 bedroom place for $2,000 for a weekend and every couple has a room.

Family cottages are the best. They just take some work. Every weekend you do 1-2 hours of work, and then play the rest of the weekend. Free.

We have 3 family cottages so it is a bit more work, but that means me and my sisters each get out own cottage down the road.

Were not rich, my dad just bought in the 70s for like 4-8k per waterfront cottage...it's like the equivalent of buying cottages for 50k each lol just being smart. Properties skyrocketed in the 80s and 90s.

I mean, our extended family has rented the same cottage every year since I was 13.

The cottages around schedule their “cottage Olympics” for when we are up there.

Its kind of like owning a cottage but without the maintenance.

Owning a cottage is a bit like owning a boat, only it should appreciate in value.

If cottaging (or boating) is your thing, and you spend the summer months doing it, why not?

But I like to travel a lot throughout the summer so owning a cottage (or a boat) outright doesn’t make a lot of sense.

 

[jbeck5]

I mean, our extended family has rented the same cottage every year since I was 13.

The cottages around schedule their “cottage Olympics” for when we are up there.

Its kind of like owning a cottage but without the maintenance.

Owning a cottage is a bit like owning a boat, only it should appreciate in value.

If cottaging (or boating) is your thing, and you spend the summer months doing it, why not?

But I like to travel a lot throughout the summer so owning a cottage (or a boat) outright doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Dare I say, if a boat appreciated in value like a cottage, it would make sense to buy one even if you only went occasionally just so you could sell it for way more when you're doing using it temporarily.

Owning a cottage doesn't really stop one from going on trips. The grass can be cut the following weekend. That deck that needs sanding and painting can be done next month. Etc.

I don't see it as one or the other.

 

[NyQuil]

Dare I say, if a boat appreciated in value like a cottage, it would make sense to buy one even if you only went occasionally just so you could sell it for way more when you're doing using it temporarily.

Owning a cottage doesn't really stop one from going on trips. The grass can be cut the following weekend. That deck that needs sanding and painting can be done next month. Etc.

I don't see it as one or the other.

I’m not going to own a cottage if I only go up for a week over the course of an entire year.

 

[Stylizer1]

I’m not going to own a cottage if I only go up for a week over the course of an entire year.

That's why you rent it out.

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

I am unsure why anybody would burn money by renting a cottage.

Our second vacation home is not ideal, but with daddy offering to cover the down payment and maintenance using his dividends from the family trust, it seemed like a no brainer.

I get it, I am on the poorer end of the spectrum here, unable to own our second vacation home outright, but daddy says when he passes, it goes to me.

 

[jbeck5]

I’m not going to own a cottage if I only go up for a week over the course of an entire year.

You wouldn't. Trust me lol. Especially if it's close by.