{"id":17225,"date":"2021-01-27T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/?p=17225"},"modified":"2021-01-14T13:03:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:03:02","slug":"how-to-save-money-at-condo-presale-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2021\/01\/how-to-save-money-at-condo-presale-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Save Money at Condo Presale Centers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Walking into a preconstruction condo presentation sales centre ill-prepared can run you thousands of extra dollars over what will likely already be the most expensive financial decision of your life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Erica Mary Smith, broker of record at Stomp Realty in Toronto, has some pointers for first-time preconstruction condominium buyers. Firstly, go to the presentation centre with a sales agent representing your best interests, she advises, because they won\u2019t let the builder\u2019s sales representative get away with anything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMy business partner and I worked in sales offices for five or six years, and a lot of people don\u2019t know you can bring a realtor into a preconstruction office and the sales office rep will know they can\u2019t get away with anything,\u201d she said. \u201cYour closing costs for preconstruction are typically 16-20% if you don\u2019t know how to negotiate, whereas a realtor can keep it down to 8%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Development charges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Toronto, DCs have increased in recent years and developers are often desperate to recoup the difference\u2014and who better from than the unsuspecting consumer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDevelopment charges are up to $10,000 from $2,500-5,000, so make sure they\u2019re capped,\u201d said Smith. \u201cYou should also make sure park levies are capped too. If the city comes back when your unit is complete and the levies have gone up to $25,000 and you don\u2019t have them capped at $10,000 when you sign your agreement, you\u2019re on the hook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other fees written into purchase agreements are money grabs that shouldn\u2019t be difficult to have removed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere are other fees you can get removed, like the gas BBQ hook up fee and the hydro hook up fee, which could come to $3,000-4,000, which any developer knows is a money grab, and you can have it removed from the agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Assignment fees<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another expensive fee involves assignments, which, should the buyer choose to flip the unit before moving in, can cost them $5,000-10,000 that will go directly to the developer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf you want to assign, you have to pay that to the developer, but there should actually be no fee,\u201d said Smith. \u201cIt\u2019s the lawyers who put it in there, but all you\u2019re doing is literally changing a name on the agreement. If you can\u2019t get them to do it for nothing, it should be no more than $500.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, Toronto\u2019s condo market is replete with assignment flipping because the COVID-19 pandemic has caused purchasers to rethink where they want to live, and that has, without a doubt, pleased many developers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNowadays, with COVID, there are so many assignments on the market that developers who got people to spend $5,000-10,000 are milking it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Lease amendment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is crucial for investors because, without it, they have to pay a hefty HST. Between the occupation and condo registration dates, unit purchasers pay the developer interest, maintenance fees and property taxes, and unless specified in their purchase agreement, they cannot legally lease their units.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf your agreement is six months or one year, you\u2019re paying $2,000 a month to the developer,\u201d said Smith. \u201cWhen investors buy a preconstruction unit, it\u2019s all about the cash flow, and if they don\u2019t have that amendment in there allowing them to lease their unit, they cannot legally do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is especially imperative for neophyte investors to know, added Smith.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf your intention is to lease out your unit upon closing, you have to pay the HST, and that can be anywhere from $35,000 to $60,000 on closing, and a builder will never tell you that. You can apply to get some of it back, and you may get 90% returned, but so many people have tried getting away with paying no capital gains in recent years that the government cracked down on rebates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many people lie and tell developers they will live in their units for at least a year, but it probably isn\u2019t worth getting busted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Upgrades aren\u2019t free<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This should be obvious because nothing\u2019s free in life, but Smith says that many visitors to presentation centres don\u2019t realize that finishes and upgrades cost additional money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLots of people like upgrades\u2014they walk in and see an awesome kitchen and a pumped up unit, but the reality is you have to pay extra for all that stuff,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen you go through a showroom, ask what is and isn\u2019t upgradable, because you can end up paying over $50,000 on upgrades after a showing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadianrealestatemagazine.ca\/news\/how-to-save-money-at-presentation-centres-334445.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Save Money at Presentation Centres?<\/a> by Neil Sharma | Canadian Real Estate Wealth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking into a preconstruction condo presentation sales centre ill-prepared can run you thousands of extra dollars over what will likely already be the most expensive financial decision of your life. &hellip; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2021\/01\/how-to-save-money-at-condo-presale-centers\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-estate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to Save Money at Condo Presale Centers? 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