Greenbilt Homes

09/25/2024

It was great to be in Niagara Falls for the Ontario Home Builders Awards of Distinction Gala. Greenbilt Homes was a finalist for the Innovation Award.

Innovation is a hot topic as recent reports show we need to drive productivity enhancement into construction. We're proud that our FlexPlex® multiplex demonstrated that we could build a highly flexible and Net Zero multi-unit building below the cost of an ordinary building. We congratulate all the winners and other finalists who joined last night's industry celebration.

06/07/2024

THE GAME OF HOMES
Is being a landlord a bad thing? Protesting small landlords in Ontario say that the deck is stacked against them. This has made many wary of renting their properties.
But there’s another side to the story. Tenants’ groups counter that some landlords take advantage of tenants. By threatening the roof over their heads, they say landlords have the trump card.
Being a landlord has been a positive and profitable experience for me. I can tell you that neither the landlord nor the renter hold the Ace.
But you can stack the deck in your favour. My FlexPlex® home design has features that make owning a rental property much easier.
I have written an article about problems and solutions in the rental market. It will give would-be rental property owners important insights. https://greenbilthomes.ca/the-game-of-homes/
Please contact me anytime to discuss being a successful landlord.

06/02/2024

There was an excellent article on AGING IN PLACE that I want to share (see below). However, it was missing one option, which is multigenerational living. It's an affordable option and a win for the kids as well as the parents.
Our upcoming FlexPlex newsletter will have a couple of articles on MGen living, so let me know if you want to join my newsletter! Free and no spam.
As you know FB won't pay journalists, so legally that can't put news on this site. So go to (remove spaces)
cbc. ca newsinteractives/ features/ aging-in-place-canada
to read this excellent piece.

05/27/2024

This is a very big week for Greenbilt Homes with the big BILD Awards ceremony coming up Thursday. Greenbilt's FlexPlex is one of two FINALISTS for the Angelo Del Zotto Fearless Innovator "Pinnacle" Award.

This is an important recognition of the growing importance and affordability of fourplexes. "Alternative" housing is on the rise in the GTA.

The 2024 finalists for BILD’s DelZotto Fearless Innovator Award, Greenbilt Homes and TAS, are both making strong statements about modern homes and some of the innovative companies that are building them.

05/27/2024

FlexPlex® makes home ownership affordable. That’s why Greenbilt Homes is Finalist for a major innovation award.

Are you open to a different approach to make owning a reality?
In our newsletter, you’ll hear about innovative ideas that make building a FlexPlex attainable. You’ll also learn how sustainability features make you money.

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05/27/2024

FlexPlex® makes homeownership affordable. That’s why Greenbilt Homes is Finalist for a major innovation award.

Are you open to a different approach to make owning a reality?

In our newsletter, you’ll hear about innovative ideas that make building a FlexPlex attainable. You’ll also learn how sustainability features make you money.

Our newsletter is free and spam-free. Subscribe now! https://greenbilthomes.ca/newsletter/

05/27/2024

FlexPlex® makes homeownership affordable. That’s why Greenbilt Homes is Finalist for a major innovation award.

Are you open to a different approach to making owning a reality?

In our newsletter, you’ll hear about innovative ideas that make building a FlexPlex attainable. You’ll also learn how sustainability features make you money.

Our newsletter is free and spam-free. Subscribe now! https://greenbilthomes.ca/newsletter/

05/23/2024

There’s lots of activity in “Alternative Housing” hiding behind the dismal housing market stats in the GTA this spring.
People are regularly contacting Greenbilt Homes to talk about creative solutions to meet their housing needs including accommodating:
• multigenerational families
• condo and rental units
• seniors’ micro-co-ops
• ‘house hacking”
in a FlexPlex®.
FlexPlex is Greenbilt’s flexible home that transforms quickly and easily from fourplex-triplex-duplex to a single-family home.
The FlexPlex earned Greenbilt a Finalist nomination for the Angelo DelZotto Fearless Innovator Award. The winner will be announced during the BILD Awards Gala May 30th in Toronto.
The market isn’t dead, it’s just shifting in reaction to the sky-high prices of traditional housing.
When new Toronto condos are listed for more than $1,500 per square foot and the average resale price of a single detached home in Toronto is more than $1.7 million , people get disenchanted with traditional housing models.
If you are disenchanted, call us 416.839.7773 or send us a message.

05/20/2024

Open to innovative ideas that make home ownership possible?

Thanks to our affordable, sustainable FlexPlex®, Greenbilt Homes is nominated for a major innovation award. We’re 10 days away from finding out if we’ve won!

Learn about FlexPlex and making home ownership attainable in our free newsletter.
Articles on:
- our housing affordability ideas
- low-cost sustainability
- how building flexibility keeps your home affordable

05/20/2024

Are you open to innovative ideas that make home ownership possible? Thanks to our affordable, sustainable FlexPlex®, Greenbilt Homes is nominated for a major innovation award. We’re 10 days away from finding out if we’ve won.

Learn more about FlexPlex and attainable home ownership in our free newsletter.
Articles on:
- our housing affordability ideas
- low-cost sustainability
- how building flexibility keeps your home affordable
Subscribe now greenbilthomes.ca/newsletter/

05/08/2024

If you are a Boomer, this may be of great interest to you. Our friendly and engaging Councillor Amber Morley, Ward 3 Etobicoke-Lakeshore came to tour the Greenbilt Homes FlexPlex on the weekend.
We talked about many things, including the flexibility of this fourplex design to transform into a single-family home or duplex or triplex. She was also interested in its sustainability as an all-electric Net Zero Carbon building.
What I think interested her most was our discussion about the BOOMERS HOUSING DILEMMA. We told her that Boomers – young seniors – are either leaving Toronto in droves or are planning to do so.

We know because we are getting calls from Toronto residents who are looking at a FlexPlex as an Aging-in-place home for them. They are going everywhere from Wasaga Beach to North Kingston.

We have learned these Boomers are worried about the affordability problem in Toronto. For many their home is their retirement fund. They think that financial security means cashing out here and relocating to inexpensive places where there’s no chance of running out of money.

This is a huge loss of key human resources as middle-class seniors are the biggest supporters of arts and culture organizations, restaurants, community groups etc. And the city is spending tax dollars to improve the city’s desirability as a place to live with supports and programs.

This is a serious problem that nobody is talking about.

One solution is CO-OPS. The FlexPlex could be a tiny rental co-op building with four seniors’ units with elevators and other accessibility features old Co-ops don’t have. It's designed so that everyone has privacy and lots of community interaction and support. Rents won’t go through the roof and leave you poor.

FlexPlex is just one Co-op model. There are many. But we wanted to engage about Co-op living with neighbors and the community as a way of keeping our seniors here with us. If you want to talk about this idea, call 416-839-7773.