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They explained to me that the owner of the property was fighting with the current tenants. She loaned them the house fifteen years ago, and now she wants it back. Strangely enough, because the family has lived there for more than four years, they have rights. By law the owner is expected to pay them to more or less buy her property back. She's offereing them less than what they want and they're upset and somehow this is newsworthy in a city of more than a million people.
Really, all I know is that I wouldn't be devestated to see that family leave. They have a truckload of kids (I'm not sure how many families live in the house, but it's more than a few), and the youngest keeps using my truck as his personal playground. He climbs up on the roof and then slides down the windshield and off the hood. It makes me...tense... everytime I see his little footprints on my windshield.
The funniest part of this whole little neighbourhood drama is that the father of of the family in the house came knocking on my door a month or so ago, and wanted to know if I was interested in buying "his" property because they had decided they wanted move. I guess he saw this coming.
Ah life in my barrio...
PS And in soccer news, Canada lost today to Argentina 5 - 0. How many of you even knew we were playing Argentina? Here at the house we had to watch the sports report on every channel we get so the guys could mock me as much as possible. It probably would have bothered me more if it was a real sport, but come on...it was soccer...
I just arrived home tonight to find a news truck parked in front of the house three doors down from us, with a big crowd of people gathered around it. My first thought was, "Well, the inevitable has happened. Somebody's finally shot somebody else on our street." I found the guys gathered around the TV watching the news report (rather than actually walking 30 ft down the street to see what was going on). I wanted to go try and get on TV, but no one was interested.
They explained to me that the owner of the property was fighting with the current tenants. She loaned them the house fifteen years ago, and now she wants it back. Strangely enough, because the family has lived there for more than four years, they have rights. By law the owner is expected to pay them to more or less buy her property back. She's offereing them less than what they want and they're upset and somehow this is newsworthy in a city of more than a million people.
Really, all I know is that I wouldn't be devestated to see that family leave. They have a truckload of kids (I'm not sure how many families live in the house, but it's more than a few), and the youngest keeps using my truck as his personal playground. He climbs up on the roof and then slides down the windshield and off the hood. It makes me...tense... everytime I see his little footprints on my windshield.
The funniest part of this whole little neighbourhood drama is that the father of of the family in the house came knocking on my door a month or so ago, and wanted to know if I was interested in buying "his" property because they had decided they wanted move. I guess he saw this coming.
Ah life in my barrio...
PS And in soccer news, Canada lost today to Argentina 5 - 0. How many of you even knew we were playing Argentina? Here at the house we had to watch the sports report on every channel we get so the guys could mock me as much as possible. It probably would have bothered me more if it was a real sport, but come on...it was soccer...
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Canada has a Soccer team? Wow... I knew their were rumours, but I didn't think we made teams for wannabe sports... (That is saying a lot considering we have a poker team ha ha) Tell the guys when ever I am down, we will have to play some hockey... ha ha!
Cheers,
Jason
Hm, does that property law work here too? In that case, I'm staying in my parent's house for a few more years!
There are more than a few laws here that confuse me... =)
The term is "Squatter's Rights" ...can't wait to see your trip photos.
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