Reasonably priced Cambridge condo

SOLD

Approximately 920 square feet 2 bedroom condo, with new washer and dryer. The carpeting was ripped out leaving bare concrete. You could leave it as is for an industrial look, or finish the floor yourself - have a new one installed in a day or two to your own taste and budget. Flooring referrals can be provided.

The unit is freshly painted in white.

North facing, so you're not incinerated or blinded by the sun.

On the fifth floor with insulated windows, so street noise is inconsequential.

The balcony can be enjoyed most of the year weather permitting.

Close to the 401 hwy, so commuting into Mississauga, where property ownership can be out of reach,  takes about 40 minutes or less. Regular "Go" buses drive direct into downtown Toronto.

Essential shopping and dining options are next door as well as dental and medical services. New and planned retailers are or will be within walking distance.

A five minute drive to Puslinch Lake, which is North America's largest kettle lake. Old Marina Restaurant will fill you up. The Niagara Escarpment is close too.

Langdon Hall is fifteen minutes away.

The Stratford Festival is thirty minutes away.

Within a ten minute walk is the Heritage College & Seminary. A slightly longer journey is to University of Waterloo's School of Architecture based in south Cambridge. Students at both schools could be renters.

As an investment the property will only appreciate. For north of $178K, a buyer could rent it out for $1200/month. Monthly condo fees are about $340, which includes pool use and a parking space.

Google "200 Jamieson Parkway, Cambridge, Ontario" to confirm price competitiveness with other building comps.

Forward inquiries to "richard.cassel@alumni.utoronto.ca" with "200 Jamieson" in the subject line.

King Tut

“... as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold - everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment - an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by - I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, 'Can you see anything?' it was all I could do to get out the words, 'Yes, wonderful things.”

- Howard Carter [1874-1939], Tomb of Tutankhamun [ruled 1332 BC-1323 BC]

ambidextrous

It is rumoured that John Quincy Adams could write Latin with his right hand and Greek with his left hand at the same time.

5th century BC advice

"Be positive at all times. If you expect to fail, you will. Before the battles begins, make sure you expect to win - then there will be no battle, for you will have won before it starts."
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War 

Spaghetti and Meatballs

the President's job

"You're an air traffic controller and you have 500 planes circling, all about to run out of fuel."
- Former Utah Governor (R) Mike Leavitt

There is no Bulgarian word for "Yuppie"

As a Bulgarian friend put it, "I can’t think of a word. Perhaps, we don’t want to rise in the world as the Japanese."

peas

A rerun from 2008:

Of all defendants, only Albert Speer [1905-1981] admitted guilt at the Nuremberg Trials. 

On how he knew the Reich was losing: "The glorious victories of the Fatherland were coming ever closer to Berlin."

Speer received a 20-year jail sentence for war crimes; for a while he slept most of the day to cut his awake time substantially until the prison authorities became aware of what he was up to.

He filled a coat pocket with peas and would transfer one to an empty pocket to keep track of each lap around the path in the modest prison garden he tended. Through prison atlases and other books, Speer imagined that he was covering interesting foreign landscapes and calculated that he had walked around the earth at least once.

A source for some of this information is Albert Speer's own Spandau: The Secret Diaries, which was written in scraps and secretly smuggled out by guards and published ten years after his release in 1976.

team player

"She scrambled eggs for him and his staff at midnight."
- Lady Bird Johnson

on adversity

"It's what you do after you crash into the wall that matters."
- Brad Snyder, Paralympic swimmer who was blinded by an IED

scene

A movement in art in Canada.

Rebel Yell

"if you weren't scared, you never heard it."
- Shelby Foote

Japanese word for "Yuppie"

Johsho-shiko: a person who has ambition to rise in the world.

a tour of the white house

like many

"There were very few things he did without calculation."
- On LBJ

bad boy

"A man is as faithful as his options."
- Chris Rock

priority

"Imagination is the most important quality in a man, but is very difficult to find."
- Jackie Kennedy

rocket programs brain

Wernher von Braun was a victim of his own success. He wanted Hitler's attention then got it. His V2 program launched 3000 rockets killing 5000, but JFK ultimately honoured him for his USA space program contributions, including putting men on the moon.

on God

"In great contests, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, but one must be wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time."
- Abraham Lincoln

reciprocity

"No friend has done me a favour, nor enemy an injury that I have not repaid in full."
- On Sulla's tombstone

wild call

"The proper function of a man is to live, not exist."
- Jack London

variation on an ancient Japanese proverb

"Vision without execution is hallucination."
- Thomas Edison

homophobic denial

"We were not taught that Tchaikovsky slept with other men."
- Zamir

unintended consequences

Sputnik may have been the Soviet Union's greatest mistake, as it enabled freedom of space; the USA could now photograph any region in the world.

cold warrior

"This world of ours ... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

wring your clothes

"His personality so crowds the room that the walls are worn thin and threaten to burst outwards."
- On Theodore Roosevelt 

if you have things you want to unload

"Moving? Downsizing? A death in the family? If you're in the '519' or '905' area codes or farther afield, Betty may buy your stuff and take it off your hands, including the things for sale at garage/yard sales, such as furniture, jewelry, tools, artwork, china, train sets, tin toys, musical instruments, First Nations cultural artifacts, old furs. Fair prices for whatever is legal to buy and sell."

Call Betty: 519 623 7528  

probably not kidding

"Nothing can make me feel at ease. Except pills."
- Hugh Grant

American Imperialism

"We stole (the Panama Canal) fair and square." 

a place to get a haircut in Cambridge, Ontario

Less than half the price of Toronto salons, but at least equal the skill minus the attitude. Ask for Joe here.