Over the past 15 years, cereal farmer Dale McMullen has escaped the cold of Alberta for sunny Arizona. But after this winter, he does not intend to come back.
“The papers are signed,” said Innisfail resident in Alberta.
“I don’t want to spend another of my dollars there.”
He and his wife sold their winter house in Phoenix. He closed this Friday.
Residents of Alberta Dale and Tracy McMullen recently sold their winter house in Arizona due to the American political climate.
Source: Dale McMullen
“We tolerated the poor dollar For a few years, hoping that it would be better. But now this political disorder with the United States and Mr. Asset. It’s very, very insulting, ”said McMullen, who returned to Canada last Sunday.
“It was almost like a relief to be at home.“”
He says he will miss his second house, wonderful weather and his American friends.
“We have asked many people to stop and apologize for what’s going on. And they feel terrible,” said McMullen.
“But I mean, that’s what it is. They elected the man.”
McMullens are part of a real estate exodus.
Facing a trade war With the United States, President Donald Trump annexation threatsand the fall of the Canadian dollar, snowbirds are getting rid of their American properties more and more, say real estate agents.
Nathalie Mancuso, who lives just outside Montreal, recently sold her condo to Pompano Beach, north of Fort Lauderdale.
“We did not want to continue to invest and give our money to a country led by a fool,” she told Global News. “(Trump) insulted Canadians as if they were a carpet under your feet.”
Québécer Nathalie Mancuso and her husband sold their property in Florida, fed up with the 51st comments and state prices of Trump against Canada.
Source: Nathalie Mancuso
She and her husband went on vacation in the state of Sunshine for more than a decade, but the call began to fade since Trump’s return to the White House, explains Mancuso.
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“We were really disappointed to have to make this decision,” she told her house in Vaudreuil-Dorion. “But we had the impression that we could not betray our souls.”
Catherine Spino, a real estate agent in the south of Florida, witnesses what she describes as a “major change” because the market becomes more expensive and less predictable for Canadians.
“There are several reasons,” she told Global News. “But they certainly want to sell, and they want to withdraw and bring their money back to Canada.”
The real estate agent in Arizona Premier Realty, Laurie Lavine, also saw the announcements jump.
“My phone rings. I normally two, three lists at the same time at this time of the year,” said Lavine. “Right now I am 16 years old.”
Canadians are at the top of the list of foreign buyers in the United States representing 13% of house purchases – most of Florida and Arizona – last year, according to a report by the American organization The National Association of Realtors.
But escaping colds seems less attractive when the relationship between the United States and Canada is also freezing.
“When they say they will invade or crush our economy, you should ask yourself,” said retired Bob Gass.
The Manitoban has been a snowbird for 15 years and has a house with his wife in the Florida Center-South.
Gass says that several Canadians have set up “for sale” signs in the neighborhood.
“If you are Canadian, you put your house on sale and go or talk about it. And that’s where my wife and I are now,” he said.
“We would like to go there a few more years in winter, but we just don’t know what we are going to do.”
The 72 -year -old man of McCreary, man., Is worried about the costly currency exchange, the American prices against Canada and a thickening of the border.
Friday, new rules came into force, forcing visitors to stay in the United States for more than 30 days to register with the United States government.
“We would like to conform, but if it becomes a problem, then we have to sell our house and go out,” said Gass.
McMullen said he decided after Trump threatened Canadian sovereignty and called former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “Governor”.
“Enough, that’s enough. We don’t want to support this anymore. We got home and we will join and put our elbows back. ”
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