Feb 15 2024 28 mins
Welcome to another edition of What Barrie's Talking About from Barrie 360! It's a big week with lots to talk about. What Barrie's Talking About is a weekly podcast that brings the local stories that impact you. News stories that you aren't used to hearing!
This week on the podcast, we talk about a dating-like app for homeowners, the right thing to say when someone passes, and more ...
What Barrie's Talking About This Week
1) A Dating-Like App ... But For Homeowners
Everybody's still tripping over themselves trying to figure out this affordable housing crisis and how to get people into houses.
Derek Battaglia, Barrie Mortgage Broker and founder of Yellowbrick.ca, which combines real estate and mortgages, has come up with a House Hitched – a dating app but for homeowners ...
2) Sharing The Stress of Homeownership
Finding a partner to share a mortgage and household expenses has become more of a necessity ... even for higher income Canadians. In fact, a survey released last week found more and more in that high income group becoming insolvent and filing for bankruptcy or requiring a consumer proposal to get their heads back above water.
Barrie 360's MJ hears more about the study and how you can keep things in check from Mark Borsyak, Licenced Insolvency Trustee with Hoyes Michalos in Barrie …
3) The Right Thing To Say ...
A close friend dies or perhaps a colleague or a member of your family ... What do you say? How do you reach out?
We often fumble for words and worry that we've said the wrong thing. Hospice Simcoe holding a workshop to help with that.
Barrie 360's Ian MacLennan gets the details and some advice from Teneal Campbell, Community Support Program Manager at the hospice ...
4) Weekly Barrie Colts Update
The skate to the playoffs continues. Barrie Colts earned a split of their two games last weekend. Goalie Ben West was chosen OHL netminder of the week.
We get an update from Colts writer and broadcaster Gene Pereira and our Will Konken …
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