As prices remain stubbornly high in Canada’s hottest real estate markets some young social media users are finding new ways to highlight what they view as the absurd choices facing new home buyers.
Not that everyone gets the joke: there are many, many commenters on his posts who accuse him of all manner of things. He has had to post videos clearly disclaiming that he is A) not a realtor nor offering real estate advice B) not suggesting there is any real comparable between the upkeep costs of a home in a Canadian city and an island almost anywhere else and C) that his posts are satire, jokes and possibly funny.
In about a week he’s collected almost 20,000 followers and his most popular videos have collected tens or hundreds of thousands of views. So far he’s profiled islands in Argentina, Brazil, Ireland and closer to home in Wisconsin. He also detoured to compare a $4-million Vancouver single-family home to a castle on 32 acres England for about the same price.
Real island hunting comes with dangerous shoals – particularly if the island is undeveloped – and buyers need to understand what the buried costs of a given island are. On his own island he developed in Belize Mr. Krolow spends hundreds in fuel every time he uses his boat to come the mainland meaning a trip for groceries can cost up to $550.
🤔 I do want to deep dive his tiktoks