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Secondary suites in Lawrence Heights Townhomes offset the cost of home ownership
Author of the article: Iris Benaroia, Special to National Post
Publishing date: May 19, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 4 minute read • The four-bedroom Lawrence Park models start at $1,439,900. Photo by Photo courtesy of Metropia and Context
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Toronto is filled with old houses that have been chopped up to create quirky rental apartments. Some have poorly divided entrances, others strangely configured living spaces, or laundry rooms that have to be accessed through another tenant’s apartment. And there’s the issue of sound transfer because of the flimsy walls. But the owner gets help with the mortgage, the renter shelter, so most of the time, it’s win-win.
Official: Apartment fire likely caused by smoking
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CENTER LINE A fire at the Lawrence Park senior apartments that sent one resident to the hospital and left three others needing treatment at the scene was probably caused by smoking in the bedroom of a seventh-floor unit, according to Division Fire Chief Charles Schubert of the Center Line Public Safety Department.
Schubert said firefighters from Center Line and the U.S. Army Detroit Arsenal were dispatched to the building on 10 Mile Road, west of Van Dyke Avenue, at 7:22 p.m. April 30 after a resident called 911 to report smoke in the hallway on the seventh floor. That was confirmed by the building’s alarm company, which reported a commercial fire alarm.