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"When we put in our offer, I had no beard. Look at me now."

Better Call Saul!

lol
i think same shit applies to sales people too
personality makes who you are

but I think you need to be dishonest to be a good realtor. That's how you BS your way into pressuring the seller to lower their price or accept their offer.

I lived in East Van all my life. It’s time to decide where my girls will go to elementary and high school.

Which Burnaby school is better? North, Central, South, or Moscrop? A neighbourhood with a balanced mix of demographics is important to us.

Does Burnaby not have catchments? Or do you have an address in each catchment you can use?

Pass on South.

If you go by rankings, Moscrop seems to be the best.

We were looking at Capitol Hill, their elementary school seemed really good, and BN is not bad.

South is not great, but not nearly as bad as Byrne Creek. Byrne Creek has been bad from the very beginning.

Explain why South is not good?

Their houses and lot size seem to be much better. This was a bit crazy.
https://www.rew.ca/properties/328973...et-burnaby-bc#

I was told this sold at $2.5m. Damn

There's a bunch of social housing in south burnaby. Which means lower socioeconomic families. That might be why?

Well if it's any indication, I graduated high school 6 years ago. All the heaty kids went to Burnaby South and I know of several instances of stabbings there LOL

Burnaby North, well it might be the people I know now / not in that crowd anymore, but it's seems ok. Major construction on Kensington right now. I think Burnaby North is under going construction too from what I saw last year.

Only thing you gotta watch out for is getting smoked in your E46 M3 by the kids who live in Capital Hill in their shitbox mustangs.

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This is really just it. Lower socioeconomic families, and all of the stereotypes that come with it. Generally speaking, the higher socioeconomic areas always seem to be at the "top of the hill" or near/around lakes.

You know what area I just found out about?

It's the Coquitlam IKEA area.

My cousin recently moved to that area and it's super convenient. I'm in East Van, and he's only 15mins from me and he's right by the highway and he's right by all of the big box stores. They have everything in that area.

I feel like that's a pretty good compromise from living in Van/Burnaby. The value is so much better than Van/Burn and I really like that location.

The only downside I can see is that if you go to Richmond a lot, it's far, but if you don't, I think it's the best value area in the GVRD.

Maillardville

It also has it's own HA club!

Maillardville suffers from the same perceived "issues" as South Burnaby. Generally speaking, the further you get from Van the higher the value quotient goes.
Give it 10-15 years though, especially if the LRT is approved. Highrise condos are starting to go up in that area and it will be a natural extension to Lougheed Town Center. My concerns are that it will turn into a little bit like East Van (since the large lots are all being subdivided into new houses + rental suites + laneways).

Maillardville is Kind of a dump. Imo it’s quite a bit worse than the burquitlam border area around north road/blue mountain etc. Just because there are so many older run down low rises etc. Lots of run down places in general.

There is quite a bit of development going on there which should slowly turn it around but right now it’s not the greatest

Maillardville. I grew up "up the hill" from Maillardville nearer to Mundy Park. Had quite a few friends grow up around the neighbourhood around Mackin Park/Place Des Arts.

On the spectrum of Coquitlam, Maillardville is on the sketchier end of things, which is to say not bad at all but there is more petty crime (vandalism, opportunistic theft) and some colourful characters. One of my friends street-parks his Jeep and it was broken into roughly once a year until he started leaving it unlocked.

Public transit wise, it's a weird combination of good (not far from Braid, 1 short bus ride away) and bad (suburb-typical bus frequency, major highways, not great for walking). It's really easy to hop on the highway, but the side effect is that there's always traffic in the area. You're at a confluence of multiple cities headed along Lougheed and Hwy 1.

The run-downness/sketchiness factor are sure to go down over the next decade. It already has by noticeable amount. The busy-ness is only going to increase with towers going up in the area (Loma was sold out), the Fraser Mills development, plus Burquitlam and Lougheed (with that, hopefully bringing more public transit and other services).

I agree, it's not bad value, but there are reasons it's priced the way it is.

EDIT: Last note... also, in the summer, if the wind is pointed in the right direction you definitely get a good whiff of the dump over at United Boulevard.

That makes sense now. I was looking at MLS and the real estate prices seem quite attractive.

It sounds like it's similar to the Edmonds area of Burnaby?

I think because I was generally on the main big roads it didn't seem like the area was "sketch". I was just looking at all of the stores and the convenience of the area.

That's probably a reasonable comparison although Maillardville is a pretty limited area, and in my personal opinion a little less rough (although that might be more out of familiarity with the area). It's also now adjacent to expensive property right up the hill, and I suspect in 10 years will look nothing like it does now. There are a few lower-end rental apartment buildings that once gone will impact the area quite a bit.

I would never be worried about walking around the area alone in the daytime, and not really at night, although I probably wouldn't go for a pleasant evening stroll. I recognize though that I'm a guy and it might be different if you were female.

If you want a feel for the area at its worst, probably walk along Brunette from Woody's to Schoolhouse after dark one day. It's not bad, but it's no suburban oasis - it probably will never be, given how central it is and how busy Lougheed/Brunette, Lougheed/King Edward, etc. will always be.

The other "value" neighbourhood in Coquitlam might be Meadowbrook - east of Lougheed Highway from Westwood to Dewdney Trunk. Property there will also be cheaper. The neighbourhood was traditionally lower-income, so the housing stock is basicpoor quality, most homes there do not have a basement, and you're hemmed in on 1-2 sides by the train (and you'll also hear the train as it passes). That said, it's close to Coquitlam Centre and just 10 minutes further down Lougheed from Highway 1... assuming there's no issue on Lougheed.

I was thinking mainly in terms of the highschool not having good rankings.

I actually live in Burnaby South right now but will be moving soon.

Burnaby South for a long time has been a little on the sketchy side due to the proximity of Skytrain stations, and the clusters of low/lower income housing. A lot of the low rent low rises are being demolished and being converted to high rises around Metrotown.

There are pockets of houses that are quite nice, but the prices have gone up significantly as well. The lot sizes typically are larger than East Van, so a 2m - 2.5m would buy you 5-7000sqft of land whereas that would maybe buy you 4000sqft in Vancouver.

The whole thing about lower socioeconomic status is true. These people don't have as much money to maintain their houses, put money in updating, etc. Overall makes the neighbourhood not look as nice.

Also keep in mind Burnaby South is higher density than many parts of GVRD. There are lots of older low rises and townhouses, lots of duplex lots, and they are adding more. There are pros and cons to it
The pros being more ppl and and better sense of a community, way more child care services to choose from.
The cons would be more traffic and more noise. The intersections of Nelson/Imperial, Patterson/Imperial, Royal Oak/Rumble are all particular bad sections that have a hard time handling all the volume.

What about Burnaby Mountain? Having bought a place there, and not having kids yet, I wonder how the schools there (Stoney Creek and Burnaby Mountain) rank compared to some of the others in Burnaby.

Ooops, sorry guys. I got super confused.
I just messaged my cousin. He lives more towards the Cariboo area. I guess because we were driving around the IKEA area that's what stuck out in my mind.

He said he doesn't think there are any high rises there, most of the new development is located around North Road. He said Maillardville would take a longer time to develop and recommend I stay away from that area. He said better to be around North Road and Lougheed.

When we are talking about “south Burnaby” I guess that’s like south of Kingsway to marine?

Maildarville could be a value buy but I’m just wondering if prices make it worth it. Like if you’re paying 85-95% of the cost or North road or anywhere in the shadow of Burnaby mountain I think that’s likely a better value, better neighborhood at potentially similar pricing

That makes a lot of sense. The Cariboo area is one of the neighbourhoods I was alluding to when I said Maillardville is adjacent to a lot of expensive neighbourhoods - Cariboo being one of them (SFH lots easily high $1M's-$2M's now).

Agreed. From what I've seen Maillardville presales are in the 85-95% range of what you see at Lougheed and Burquitlam now, in which case I'd prefer those neighbourhoods. I think there's a bigger differential for SFH lots (Lougheed and Burquitlam having already priced in the density), but I haven't checked the numbers too recently.