Benefits of being surrounded by conservation land?

[Pfm1011]

"Everyone should keep in mind that it is legal to build using an incinerating toilet, and possibly an aerobic or composting same"

Thats not accurate, Many towns zoning specifically state that a type 4 ( septic tile bed ) is required. The composting toilet does not deal with waste water and very few, if any towns, will allow you to build without grey water processing.  As a general rule the towns require septic fields and you have to convince them otherwise.   

The ontario clean water act came in in 2006 and many towns zonings were created before then and may not address the issue,

Unless a town zoning specifically states it is allowed, presume you cannot get a permit based on holding tanks or special toilets. I dont think they will accept   "we dont take baths" as an answer.

The special toilets save water but do nothing to deal with the soaps, phosphates etc that come from the water in the house.

 As per " don't think that agents don't read this forum"   I know they do, amazingly enough..none seem to respond. 

[ErnestBidder]

Farrouk, you can't have it every which way from Sunday: how can some agents be cunning, crafty thieves who are always trying to take advantage of you, yet the ones that give me all kinds of help, including offering up a tremendous deal to me, are stupid? My agent didn't even want the purchase to go through him, but gave me all the names of those to contact, drove me out to the property, etc. You better believe that I will be selling through him.
  I will admit that I've had to fire 1 or 2 agents (the second was perhaps a mutual agreement to have a parting of the ways), but I'm very happy with the treatment I have been accorded, and I will admit I've run into a couple who were slightly smarter than doorknobs, and one who epitomized the sleaziness of a 1950s used car salesman.

[farrouk]

Earnest:
Sorry I came on a bit stong in my last post.  I use agents to sell all the time and some are very professional in their job. As long as both your interests are aligned things work out fine.
Case in point when thing go wrong.
At the end of our street in Niagara Falls lived a sweet little old widow who had a run down house on a triple wide lot. One day coming home from work I noticed a for sale sign. (not there in the morning). I called immediately and the agent said it was sold allready. Three offers all at asking price of $140k. Guess who got it??? It was bought in an another agents wifes name. A month later the severence notices were posted and the guy wanted 100K per lot. THe agents interests were not aligned with that of his client.

[ErnestBidder]

  That was the time to get in touch with her family, her lawyer, the RE council of ontario, or anyone who could have, and possibly would have, corrected the injustice. It may still not be too late at this point. When we see wrongs being perpetrated is when we could, perhaps, get involved to try to prevent them from happening. Even a call to the various consumer advocates working for the media might do some good.

[speedfreeksteve]

I'm just hoping that we gave the original poster the information to make an informed choice. Selling hunting campings as a "cottage" is just wrong... although I know it happens.

Most agents won't outright lie.. but if they say "maybe" to a question about if you can do this or that with a property.. the real answer is often a "no".