Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Virtual Open House by The Keitner Group

Episode Date: April 25, 2020

Mike hosts a 30 minute virtual open house focusing on homes for sale by Austin Keitner of The Keitner Group in southeast Mississauga. Text 'torontomike' to 59559 for more information.

Hello and welcome to the Keitner Group's virtual open house for April 25th, 2020. I'm Toronto Mike and joining me is a good friend and a great member of the community from the Keitner group, Austin Keitner. Austin, how are you doing today, buddy? Doing really good, Mike. How about you? No, can't complain. Considering the circumstances, it's pretty darn sweet. Yeah. What's the biggest change in your world so far? I mean, how long has this been going on officially? Since March 15th or so? Yeah. Well, the last day of school is what I go by as the marker. And that was a Friday the 13th. So yeah. March 13th, you pick up the kids at daycare

school and then everything changes, right? Unbelievable. But how are you doing? You you got a, you got a big young family. Like how are you guys holding up? Uh, pretty good. Um, this probably isn't popular to say, but our, my in-laws, they, uh, quarantined themselves for 14 days, uh, after they came back from Florida. And then they insisted on taking our children up North cause we had also been quarantined. So i think people are starting to kind of sort of mix a little bit like select family members a little bit look at this controversial start to the virtual open house uh yeah it depends who you talk to but i guess if you

are super selective and there's no like they're not hanging out at bridge club or anything like that. And it's it sounds safe to me. Nothing outside the family, just kind of expanding who's allowed in the in the circle. And it was only by the in-laws. So that's been helpful. There's three kids, four and a half and under. So, well, can they handle a few more kids? I'll send them over. Yeah, I don't know if that's that would be OK with society right now. Mixing households is not approved yet right we would we're just kidding everybody but uh also now i know you got the fresh facts do you got any uh real estate market updates for us yeah we've got a few we're uh we're doing seven open houses right now like i was telling you

before we started recording there was some technical difficulties in getting them all synced at the same time with the tool that we're using. We're still learning all this stuff for anybody listening. It's not going to be perfect, but we have definitely adapted. Our team was able to sell five homes last night. We represented two sellers,

three buyers. Um, and it was all 95% virtual only till the last minute. Even a couple of those were, uh, were, we had agreements before we actually went and uh and saw the property so you know new world of uh new world of real estate and we'll talk a

bit more about that well austin i was talking to my buddy yesterday uh and you know he's like oh our house is still selling and i'm like not you know it's not the same as you're going to explain because i see these numbers every week but it's not the same volume. But the prices are actually year to year, like year over year up and the time for closing the deal has actually gone down. It's actually, in many regards, it's a smart time to buy and sell. Yeah, I mean, let's just get right into that because we take a look at the numbers almost daily, but we just took a look at a sample for this time period in April last year versus this year. And you can see a significant drop in the number of sales. Like it's down 30%.

Hold on. I've got the number here. Or sorry, down 72%. Right. So pretty significant. But yeah, like you said, prices are actually up. They're up 6.1% in all of Mississauga. We use Mississauga and then the open houses that we're going to present today are in the

southeast Mississauga quadrant. So it's Port Credit, Mineola and Lakeview. Other members of my team are open housing right now, sections of Etobicoke, downtown Toronto, East Bend. So there's a variety of things going on. But for our purposes, we're just looking at homes in Southeast Mississauga right now. But these numbers are pretty similar across the board. It's pretty consistent with Southeast Mississauga to what all of Mississauga is doing. You're seeing a 70% drop in the number of units. And then an increase over last year in the number, in the price, in the average sale price.

Right. Now go back to that other slide. I'm just going to read them out loud for the podcast audience who can't see the slide. But essentially from April 1st to April 24th, 2019, 34... Oh, you got all missed. Okay. So 369 different units, I guess.

Units are like houses or condos, right? Yeah. So 369 sold in 2019. But that same period in the pandemic realities of 2020, 106 units. So you're right. That's quite the drop. of 2020, 106 units. So you're right, that's quite the drop. But the average sale price, which was about 991,000 in 2019, has gone up. You're cleared a million now. So it's a million and about $50,000. And the time on the market looks like it's pretty much the same. So prices

are up, but units are down. Yeah, exactly. So if we look at the beginning of this year, I mean, prices were up 20, 25% from the year before. So we have decreased since that time. It's similar, like, I mean, very different circumstances to what happened in 2017. But the beginning of 2017, prices were up 30%, 20% year over year. And then the Fair Housing Act came into play, and that dropped prices from that period, but they were still up from the year before. Kind of amazing. I think that's surprising to people. But it does tell you if prices prior to the COVID shutdown here were up higher than they are now, Isn't that sort of another way of saying that houses or units are on sale right now? It sounds to me with my accountant brain that this is a good time to buy.

Yeah. I mean, it's a good time to buy. You might not get a fire sale price, but you're definitely not getting... Because that may never happen. What we've seen in other markets like China, we've been studying China. We looked at Hongong kong when when uh remember sars that didn't really affect our society too much but it certainly affected theirs they actually shut down some of what we're doing now um and they it was it was a v-shaped recovery so it kind of went down and we're talking units similar to what's happened here and then it shot back up and prices just kind of went up with it. So we may never get fire sale prices because, I mean, God willing, everybody gets their jobs back. Society gets back to normal.

There's not fire sales. People can't not pay their mortgage. The government's helping out in the short term. So, I mean, hopefully nobody is under that duress in terms of having to sell their house. Nobody should be planning for that, especially because it's probably not going to happen. Certainly we hope not. But yes, now you don't have to compete. Most people aren't leaving their house. Only the most motivated people are out. The motivated sellers are on the market and everything's being done carefully and only at the last minute when a showing has to happen because we need to seal the deal.

Do we go in with extreme protocols, one person at a time, gloves, mask, sanitization, doors are open in advance. Lights are on. Nobody touches anything.

So all that stuff happens, but it's, it's obviously a reduction in the number of buyers and the amount of competition you can actually buy likely for under asking, which is what we've been doing this week. As opposed to fighting and paying five to 10% more. Like if this pandemic didn't happen, what buyers would be doing in this environment right now? Because that's what we were doing a month ago.

Right. And did I hear you right off the top that you said the Keitner Group closed, what, five deals yesterday? What did I hear off the top there? Yeah, we wrote five deals, firm deals. So that means that their under contract deposits are accepted. No more conditions. Well, congrats, man. That sounds means that they're under contract, deposits are accepted, no more conditions. Well, congrats, man. That's amazing. That's great. Yeah. I mean, like I said, there's people who need to buy and sell right now. That's why I

deemed an essential service, but we just want to make sure that we're taking the safest protocols in place. So these are all averages. Different categories are experiencing different price increases or decreases. So if anybody wants a more accurate depiction of where their property is at in their category, they can just submit their property. If they go to Mississauga Home Values, we have other landing pages, but mississaugahomevalues.ca, they can submit their address, a couple details about their property. We'll shoot them over an online CMA or give them a more accurate assessment of their property value. Any other questions or anything else we should talk about on this, Mike?

Well, I just want to clarify that we're only covering a part of Mississauga in this particular virtual open house. So I know last week, a longer open house, we covered, you know, a lot of Etobicoke, Mimico Joel was on the call and we covered a lot of the condos in Toronto. But this particular virtual open house that we're chatting on right now is going to be strictly what part of Mississauga? Maybe start by telling us like what geographic boundaries in Mississauga we're looking at today. Yeah. So Port Credit, Mineola, Lakeview. That is, you know, Dixie and south of the highway, south of the QEW at Dixie and Cothra.

Well, you know, I'm an avid cyclist that you're describing my favorite part of Mississauga. Like they have the best bike trails, the waterfront trails. I, I, I truly adore those neighborhoods in Mississauga. So tell us about some of these properties. Yeah. So Mike and that area is actually improving dramatically. There's 180 acre municipal redevelopment happening. There's going to be 70 acres of forest. They're connecting port credit bike trails and walking paths to long branch.

Cause we, you, you and I both know there's that gap where you have to feed onto lakeshore. It's a little bit rough at some point, but yeah, there is right now good trails, but they're going to connect those. And so there's that happening. There's also going to be 7,000 to 10,000 mixed commercial residential units going in that, that this project's already underway.

If you go to Marie Curtis park and walk that trail, you'll actually see the trucks doing the fill landfill for, for the trails, for the waterfront. And I'm glad you mentioned Marie Curtis because you're right. That's right there. And that's such a, I would say that's a underrated, underappreciated piece of park because I literally see surfers. I don't know if you've seen this. Like guys in their surfboards,

guys and gals hitting the waves at Marie Curie. They have a fantastic beach. They test it every day. And it's like, it's cleaner, safer water than you get in the, you know, the exotic beaches of Rio de Janeiro or stuff. Like it tests very well in that it's completely safe to swim in.

People are surfing there. Great long boardwalk. It's like a gem in the GTA, Marie Curtis Park. Yeah. Some of our clients who live there, they've sold reluctantly sometimes. But yeah, they've got their paddle boards or their kayaks, and they'll walk them down to the park, to the beach. I've gone there with a couple of clients and friends of mine and gone kayaking behind all those mansions along the lakefront beautiful yeah and and as you got young kids like i do that playground too of the water park man once this covid uh pandemic ends like that's where my kids want to be every day in the summer so it's amazing yeah it's actually

rated one of the top parks in the gta it's large on the lake it's yeah it's awesome um and these houses are all walking distance away. So I'm going to play a quick video. We'll play with no volume, but I can describe it a little bit for the listeners. The first one I wanted to show off was 898 First Street. So this is right by Lakeshore. It's great if you like being by the hustle and bustle. This is right north of where all that infrastructure is going in. There's already places to go, coffee shops to attend, food to grab. But it's also really close to all these properties are all very close to the major arteries too. So you're close to the

airport, you're close to downtown, you're close to the West End if that's where you need to go. Well, you can jump on the Gardner there in like two minutes. You're on the Gardner and you know what that's like. And next thing you know, you're at on the Gardner there in like two minutes. You're on the Gardner and you know what that's like. And next thing you know, you're at the Blue Jays game. Yeah. You can really get around easy now, but by the time the Blue Jays are playing, it's still only a 20-minute commute to downtown. We do it all the time from here. So let's take a quick look.

There's going to be me waving my arms and flailing if you're watching this because I'm talking about the area and what's going on. But since we've already done that, this house was only built in 1997. They've actually done a lot of upgrades to it since then. New front door, new kitchen countertops. You'll see that when you go inside. It's a one-and-a-half car garage attached so you can enter the house from the inside, which you can't do in a lot of the houses in the area, but this one you can. See the safety protocols. If you're watching the video,

you can see the Lysol wipes before we open up, safety mask, gloves, keeping our social distance, purposely walking away from the house while the buyer can go inside of the house. And then all the doors and lights are open for the buyers when they come in. And as you can see at the entranceway, there's the entrance for the garage. There's enough space where you're not bumping your elbows with people when you walk into the house. You've got a 10-foot long kitchen island, gas, stovetop, stainless steel appliances. You've got your eating kitchen right there as well as your living area. Everybody likes to be able to watch their kids while they play and you're cooking and cleaning and stuff like that.

These particular cellars, they have three really young kids so they've been raising their family in this house. As you'll see in the... You can see the kids' setups in the rooms. Yeah, it's bright and spacious.

Yeah, it looks fantastic, man. Yeah, so our listeners can't see this beautiful thing of a home, but if they text Mississauga to 59559, we'll send them the 3D tour, we'll send them the property details, we'll send them the listing and the stills, and they can take a look for themselves. All right, so my first question is, once I find out where it is, and again, is that 898 First Street? What was the address there? 898 First Street in Mississauga, yeah. And if you're going to do major intersections, where would you put that?

Is that like Lakeshore and Cothra? Where are we here? Yeah, it's right at Lakeshore, just east of Cothra, west of Dixie, right in the middle there. Okay. Wow. You're pretty darn... You keep going on Lakeshore there, you're in Port Credit of all the restaurants, but we'll talk about that in a moment. But what is the price? What is this listed at? Yeah. So that property is listed at 1.159.

So another valid... I'm glad you asked. These properties are not positioned for multiple offers. If the market hadn't changed when we were planning to go to market with it six weeks ago, they were doing some final preparations. They replaced the door, a couple of loose ends. But the plan was to just position it for multiple offers because that's what was happening across the board. But then we had to adjust the strategy based on what's happened. So there's been a couple offers on the property. You'll see a lot of these places, like one of these places had eight offers. One of them was on the offer presentation night. And I'll talk a bit about that when we show the property. Since then, there's been another offer. So again, sellers aren't fire selling their homes. Like some of them have been closed, but unless there's significant

duress for the seller, they're not typically parting. And that's what we were seeing with the average sale prices. They've still been gone up since last year. They've gone down since the beginning of the year. So there's some give on that, but there's not fire selling. So they're going to agree to a reasonable price. And based on the number of showings, some of these barbers are averaging a showing a day, even though there's a pandemic. So given that, it should be sold in the next week or two, I would say. And Austin, it's probably safe to say that some people might window shop in a normal circumstance, but during the pandemic,

if you're going into a home, you're very serious about that property. It's a whole different level of interest now. Absolutely. And especially with the homes that have kids living in them. The next one we're going to show you, they've just moved out for this sale period. They were fortunate enough to have another home and they're living there. But the ones with children

or where there's coordinating of people getting in and out, we're very selective about who can go into those properties. All right, let's check out this next Mississauga property. Yeah, this is a three-bedroom bungalow right up the street. It's actually at the corner of North Mount and 8th Street. And this is a dead-end road. So I'll just play the video while I'm talking about it. Let me turn off the phone.

It's at the corner. But at the end of the street, as you can see here, if you're watching the video, it's a walking path to Cawthorne Park. So you're right in nature. You can go for walks uh there's a public pool there's a indoor public pool there there's a rec center there's the Cothra High School um again it's right close to these major arteries and uh to this Inspiration Lakeview project that we talked about again the sanitization of the of the lock box before we open it um gloves face mask um before entering the home um this one's been renovated from the top to the bottom they uh they have two young children and they live on the same floor as the young children so it's been great up until the point where they reach teenagers

mike i know that you've been there um and you're on round two of that so you know that uh raising children a house this size is pretty ideal just because everything's close by. And when they're young and growing up, you want to be close by. But now that they're getting older, time for them to spread their wings a little bit. You mentioned this is in a dead end. There's a dead end street that this is on? Yeah. So it's a cul-de-sac. So it's really safe for children to play ball. Also, my 18-year-old son would just get a basketball net out there and him and his buddies would just go at that all day long the cul-de-sacs are the best for that yeah really safe for kids and check out this backyard i mean

they've got uh they've got a section off because they have a dog this is actually a double wide lot so you could run this house in the ground you could actually if there wasn't this pandemic going on and builders weren't taking it easy and being safe, this would have been sold to a builder already because you can split it and build two houses, which is exactly what I did around the corner from this house on 8th Street. Sold it to a builder after we did that. And that's what you can do on this property. But it's also, this one's renovated. The one I bought wasn't, so there was no option to live there. But this one is. So you could actually just run into the ground and then do that. Okay.

So if you're listening at home, it's a 1392 North Mount. And again, we're in like, we'll call this Southeast Mississauga is where you get. Question on that, Austin, real quick is we all know in Toronto, because I live in Southwest Toronto and I paid double land transfer tax. This is the, the, the joy of living in four one six is you get to pay two of those. Um,

if you buy where this is located, you're actually getting a lot of the benefits of being in south, uh, west Toronto being in southeast Mississauga, but you only the one land transfer tax, right? Yeah. Um,

yeah. So it's hot. There's the municipal and the provincial like you said and yes that's that's a good point thanks for bringing it up if you're in toronto you're paying it twice and if you're in mississauga you're not and you're just like a little bike ride away from where they're paying double land transfer tax so i'm just throwing that out there there's an additional incentive to buy in this part of mississauga it's probably one of the most undervalued parts of the GTA just because of the fact that it's, I mean, Port Credit, you go over west and literally I was looking at the data,

the prices are 50% higher by being in Port Credit because it's already got what's coming to Lakeview. And then you go to Long Branch and prices are 30% higher. Wow. It's sandwiched between these two affluent communities, really good property sizes, really good homes. It makes up all kinds of different, it's a melting pot of different types of properties, semi-detached, some apartments, it's got detached, brand new, old, everything. And this neighborhood's called Lakeview. Is that

the name of this neighborhood? Yeah, it's got a really rich history of military background. They actually used to do pilot training for World War I pilots. There's an ammunitions building, which is a historic site. So they're going to preserve that even with this inspiration Lakeview happening. I've got friends and clients in the area, just people that we know from all the community involvement that we have. And some of them, they're 90 or in their 80s, and they've been there since they were kids. And they used to ride horse and carriage up the roads. Wow. Yeah, really, really cool history.

And we've been learning a lot about it. Okay. Before we move on from 1392 North Mount, I can hear people listening to us and screaming, what is the list price? What is the list price on that house? Thanks for bringing that up. It's listed at 1079. Again, it's not positioned for multiple offers.

It's first come, first serve. Gotcha. Cool. Yeah. All right, let's check out, uh, right around the corner. Once again, this is seven street and it's a two story, four bedroom finished basement. Again,

this is a two car garage. This is bigger than the other two houses and priced at one, two, two nine. This is a property that had seven offers on the first night. We actually came to an agreement, sold conditionally, and then the buyers weren't able to get their financing um we've had an offer since weren't able to reach an agreement they might still buy it so because the number of sales

are down so much we're not seeing that buyers are passing on these properties necessarily and buying other stuff it's just that they're not buying anything necessarily. Right. So there's, like we talked about earlier, Mike, it's a really good opportunity for buyers who don't want to compete because I've talked to buyers who are waiting till the prices go down more. And that's fine. It's just very speculative.

So what usually happens in that environment, since nobody can predict when that's going to happen, is what's going to happen is they're going to wait and then they'll see the prices start going up. You'll start being in bidding wars again. Things will sell for 5% more than what the last house sold for. And all of a sudden they missed the bottom. Austin, we all know people who have been waiting for the bubble to burst for like 30 years now, right? They're like, oh, don't worry. There's going to be a correction. They've been waiting

literally for decades. So that's quite a gamble. Mike, have you ever driven past a house and been like, oh man, I'm glad I didn't buy that 20 years ago? Oh yeah, for sure. For sure. For sure. No, listen, what did they say? The best time to plant a tree is like 30 years ago. And the second best time is today. No, property in the GTA, again, I guess I need to caveat here to say I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm older than you, Austin, and it's only gone in one direction in my lifetime. Yeah, there's these blips. But like I said, when we study even the Chinese market now, it's a V-shape. It actually seems to go right back up.

And as long as our government does the right things to make sure that people don't have to fire sale their houses, which Canada has always traditionally been really smart. people don't have to fire sale their houses, which Canada has always traditionally been really smart. Like even in, uh, even when it's, uh, a market, uh, being at fault for a housing correction, like, uh, in 2008 in the States, we didn't really feel it as much just because we're smarter with our lending. Like the banks right now are definitely tightened up their rules. That's why those people didn't get approved. Some, some banks are actually going three years back in prices and improving it at those prices right now. So they're tightening up big time. We just bought an 11-plex for a client.

They're pretty much not even underwriting those right now. And if somebody wants to see the virtual tour of all these properties, but 871 7th Street is the one we're looking at right now. They just text the word Mississauga. So half the battle is knowing how to spell Mississauga. But text Mississauga. So half the battle is knowing how to spell Mississauga, but text Mississauga to 59559. And you'll send them links and then the comfort of their own home, they can take a virtual tour. I'll say this, you mentioned the wide lots, these are big properties. Yeah, this next one is 50 by 150. Which some people love love some people don't like but the house is beautiful

i'm going to show you the video i'm actually in it it's a little bit embarrassing every time i watch it but um uh we just uh did a lifestyle video let me just play while i'm talking i'll turn the sound off oh hey shannon Thanks for joining us. Yeah, so this property, it's right by Port Credit. It's actually on the west side of Cothra, right by, there's golf clubs. There's a private one, that one, which I happen to be a member at. And then there's one across the street, Lakeview, which I used to golf there all the time. We're doing a lifestyle video. We're pretending it's my daughter's birthday, just to show off the house.

But you walk in, there's an office right there, which everybody wants. There's a 16 foot quartz countertop kitchen island. It's the largest I've ever seen in the house. And it works really well in that room because it's so large and it feeds into the dining area. And then it's separated. A lot of people don't want necessarily just wide open everything anymore. So it's got a sunken living room, but you've got the opening to it,

so you still get the natural sunlight. There's my family walking in the door. A cameo, your wife and kids making a cameo appearance. Yeah. Yeah, if you're listening to this and you want the video, don't blame me if you don't, but you should see it for the house. Not for us, obviously, but for the house.

Just text Mississauga to 59559. We'll follow up and ask which property you're looking for. Your daughter's a good actress. I see her. Because it wasn't really her birthday, right? We tempted her with cake, so she played along. That's what we bribed her.

All right, let me just... If someone's only listening to our voice, they need to text Mississa, Mississauga to five, nine, five, five, nine, because this,

this house is enormous. This is like a, you would be watching like dynasty or something. And this is, this is an enormous bright, like I, I, I haven't got the lift list price.

You're going to drop it on us, but I will tell people what the address is. If they want to go to Google maps or whatever, it's 1459 Radcliffe Boulevard. And it's enormous. Now, I'm ready for a big number here because that neighborhood, that size of house, it's like a smart house too. It looks like it's from the future, right? You have the Google minis and everything, you know, probably driving all the lights and the thermostat and everything. So tell us what the list price is for that house.

Yeah. You notice the built into the wall so you can control everything digital with your voice or you can control it from a device from anywhere in the world. It's priced at two to six five. It was actually reduced from 2.5 similar properties in the area are selling for close to that. So this is actually a good deal. Two car detached garage right to the entrance of the house. As you can see, if you're, if you're watching,

it's actually set up so that even if the plumbing faulted, it would actually shut it off automatically and notify your device to doing that. So the sellers are going to set that all up with the, with the buyers just because there are some complexities to it. But once it's set up, even like sprinklers, it'll, it can be set up so that it knows if it's raining or not and whether it should be activated or not. And it notifies you if it is. So even though it's a beautiful layout, beautiful design, everybody who comes in

loves it. But in addition to that, it's also a smart home, all stainless steel appliances. These guys didn't skimp out on the finishes. I'm And I mean, I, I'm talking to you now from a hundred year old, over a hundred year old house here. And I'm looking at this house. It really looks like it was built like last week. It's so modern. Yeah. It's a brand new house.

So, uh, it's, uh, it's worth checking out and just text us to, uh, Mississauga at five, nine,

five, five, nine. We'll send over the video and we'll send over the, uh, 3d virtual tour as well. Amazing. Wow. That's a, that's quite the home. All right. And a great neighborhood. I know you mentioned that one's closer to Port. Is that in Port Credit or where is that from Port Credit?

It's called Mineola. So it's in Mineola, just next to Port Credit. And any of these homes, we've looked at a lot of nice homes ranging from just over a million to 2.265 million. So wide variety. We're also, like I said, doing open houses all across the GTA right now. We've got access to listings in the virtual open houses. We're doing virtual showings for our clients right now so that they don't have to leave their house unless it looks like it's the right opportunity. If it is the right opportunity, they're able to negotiate. They can actually have conditions which is otherwise unheard of. And certainly just over a month ago, wouldn't have been likely as we were seeing with sale

prices and what they were doing at that time. So now you can actually negotiate terms, negotiate price, maybe even get it for a bit less than what the latest comparable sold for. And we can do it all safely so and if i may um i've known you a long time austin and uh you're just such an easy guy to talk to like i think if even if people just have questions there's no dumb questions when it comes to what's essentially the greatest investment you'll make in your entire life uh is the home that you purchase for you and your family. Now, you're easy to talk to,

and you're a smart guy, and you're such a decent guy. I mean, I bump into you at charity events in the neighborhood, etc., giving back to the community all the time at the Keitner Group. So I do encourage everybody to text Mississauga to 59559. And that's a great way to engage Austin Keitner here. Yeah. And I should also mention, we don't have a key word for it yet, but if you just, maybe if you just, I've talked to a lot of your listeners, Mike, and quite frankly, most of them not moving. They're just interested in real estate.

So we just send them their sales data within a mile of their house and things like that. And they're all great people. You've got a good audience. But we're also, we have a red day every year. both. You've got a good audience. But we're also, we have a red day every year. Our brokerage does that Keller Williams where we volunteer, raise money, volunteer our time, help people who need it in our communities. Every year we raise money at the Franklin Horner community center. We do a car wash every year and we raise money for the seniors programs there. What we're going to do instead, since they can't run the seniors programs is we're actually going to bring food to seniors in the community who are otherwise isolated and don't have anybody

like the community center is was extremely important for them because a lot of the time they just don't they they might not have children or their adult children live far away they're literally all alone and uh we just want to do whatever we can to help out. So if for now they text, if you're listening and you text Toronto Mike to 59559, we can let you know how you can help with us, even if it's monetary or through physical effort. That's an exceptional cause, especially at this time when there's a lot of anxiety in, in that community during this pandemic.

And that's really great of you guys. I hope everybody texts Toronto Mike to 59559. in that community during this pandemic. And that's really great of you guys. I hope everybody texts Toronto Mike to 59559 and find out from Austin how you can help with that. Good job. And if you know people who need help or that need support in your community, then we can also arrange to help them out. I can't even imagine being older, being vulnerable,

not being able to see anybody and not knowing how to use technology well enough to interact with people outside of their house. I can't even imagine. No, it's just not. That's terrible. And if we can do anything

to help alleviate that anxiety with meals and help. Amazing. Great job. Mike, thanks for hosting. Always a pleasure talking to you. And I'm looking forward to connecting with more people that are listening to your show. No, thanks for doing this. And, uh, let's do it

again next, uh, next Saturday. Let's do it. All right. Take care, Austin. Thanks buddy. Thank you. This podcast has been produced by TMDS and accelerated by Roam Phone. Roam Phone brings you the most reliable virtual phone service to run your business and protect your home number from unwanted calls. Visit RoamPhone.ca to get started.