Market rent would likely be established through a cap rate of assessed value. So I'm assuming it's not really that much harder to do. Works out to around 30% higher than Vancouver's tax.
The problem with Vancouver's system is they determine vacancies through a survey. If you lie, you pay a severe penalty. However, they have a track record of not enforcing anything.
For example, the city has a law preventing the use of a home for an AirBnB full-time without a B&B license. Only 56 B&B licenses have issued in the metro area, and there were more than 2,570 listings that violated that rule at last check. City's response to our article was they have no idea how to figure that out...we offered the bot that cross references it and they said no thanks.
We cover Vancouver extensively, it's our most written about market. Two of our writers focus exclusively on the situation there, since it's the global real estate bubble on steroids.
> If a unit is vacant for one month per year that would be an 8.3% vacancy rate.
Generally most of the local governments in the data sets used only consider homes vacant if it's not considered someone's primary address. It's normal to have some vacancies (especially in a global city), but usually not that many. To contrast what a normal-ish number is, Paris has half as many vacant units as all of England. New York City has more than all of England.
A large part of New York City's vacancies has to do with the last real estate crash there. I literally know people that can't remember where their place in New York City is, because they purchased it 15 years ago and didn't want to lose money. Now it just sits as a line item in their assets.
Note: I wrote the article, so I'm bias in defense here.
Have you created an SPA before? If so, start with what you know best. Spending 2 months learning how to write BackboneJS is probably going to add up to more time than the lag all of the users of your first iteration get combined. You can then change the parts that aren't working for you, and optimize for your use case.
If you haven't, I'm a big fan of using a MongoDB, Express, Angular, and NodeJS (MEAN) stack. Angular has a huge number of libraries you can use for transitions, and you can always use CSS animations and jQuery to accomplish anything not in there.
It's just going to get overturned from the President's office like the block Samsung had imposed on Apple.
Notably missing from all of the coverage is how much they're trying to charge Apple for their FRAND covered patent. Are they price gouging, or is Apple demanding a huge quantity discount?
Not all things are about speed. Helping the user to understand the "story" of what they're doing is just as important. Most UX kits involve transition animations for this reason.
"Animation" is a pretty important part of UX. The movement helps the product tell the story of what you're doing.
The user perceives lag after 300ms, and switches thought in less than a 1000ms. If your screen doesn't engage the user while it's making the switch, you risk them starting something else. And where's the fun of building a product people don't engage with for as long as possible? :D
Well to be fair, we don't know that the 6 students called were from Quebec. McGill is a fairly popular school for kids from Ontario and the Maritimes provinces too.