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Trump Says Toronto is Soft

Posted by Andrew / March 22, 2007

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trump tower site.jpgDonald Trump, aka The Donald, is taking some time off this weekend from his budding professional wrestling career, his ongoing feud with Rosie O'Donnell, and his humanitarian work to come to Toronto and talk about Real Estate. Trump is the keynote speaker at the upcoming Real Estate and Wealth Expo at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre this Saturday and Sunday.

If you weren't already aware of this fact, you probably haven't been outside or listened to the radio in the past couple weeks. I can't recall a one-time advertising blitz like the one the Learning Annex is currently putting on for this event. Everywhere I turn in the city this week I seem to be hit with an extra dose of Trump's hair in billboard format.

Ahead of his visit to our city this weekend, Trump weighed in on the state of the Real Estate Market in Toronto. His take? We're soft. No doubt this is his unbiased opinion based on available market data and has nothing to do with the fact that Trump Tower is not selling well.

I'll be attending this event and I'm hoping the Donald will fill us Torontonians in on how to get rich by investing in a 'soft' market. I mean, I should expect something special for Trump's $1.5M appearance fee, right?

[Photo by lamkevin in the blogTO Flickr group shows only empty air where the Trump Tower is supposed to be.]

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Jack / March 23, 2007 at 10:13 am
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I'm getting pretty tired of seeing Trump's hair everywhere too...I'll be interested to see what you say about what he has to say at this event, I hope he was worth the money
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Obe Wan Kenobi / March 23, 2007 at 10:40 am
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I am also among the 'Donald-hair-aphobics'. I understand Donald's fee was actually $1m and a $.5m surcharge for the hair, siting it needed its own makeup trailer and security staff. Toronto's market is far from soft, just ask the people who were recently in that 20 offer bidding war that sold for over $100k over asking price. Donalds comments are no-doubt coming from Torontonians reluctance to pay $400k for 400 Sq.Ft. We're not idiots Big Boy, yet having said that I am also going to the expo to hear him speak. The trick with characters like this is to hear them out - dismiss the stuff you think is crap and take only that which works for you. So this means for me....the hair is the first thing that has to go.

Relentlessly,
OWK
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Andrew / March 23, 2007 at 02:57 pm
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Jack, I'll try to see past the hair and hear what he has to say.

The good news is Trump apparently gives away all his appearance fees at these things to charity. No word on whether the charity is his condo development here in Toronto.
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Tanja / March 24, 2007 at 04:42 am
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lol Andrew.

All the best to those of you going to hear him speak. I hope you've got a great weekend planned to make up for the life time lost having to sit through one of his arrogant talks. Shouldn't be too hard to top.
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Corey Stroeder / March 27, 2007 at 01:00 am
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I can't believe that man is going to get paid $1.5 million for a couple hours work! I can retire for the rest of my life off of 1 million! Talk about economies of scale.

Corey
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