January 31, 20206 yr comment_993961 Yes, I'm happy about it. I might owe my soul to the bank, but damn it I'm not paying for someone else's mortgage. I have my own.I've been renting since 1994. I scrimped and saved.We've bought our first house. An 1100 square foot, split level, single family, with a big back garden house. Something I can call my own.Damn it, if I want to paint my front door hot pink, I can.If I want to take a chainsaw to a wall, I can.I'm not sharing a floor, a wall, or a ceiling with someone.I'm not going to have to put up with some Petite Roi, who will call la gendarme when mon chein barks and annoys her entitled ass.It's magical. The realtor we hired is a real ball breaker. I'm glad she is on our side. The asking price was $279 990.00 CDN. Our initial was $255 000.00.Which was rejected.So she offered $265 000.00.Accepted! F**k Yeah!Then we had the inspection done.House is sound, all systems go. Except for some minor problems.Back to the drawing board, renegotiation.$260 000.00, plus a new dishwasher, and plumbing problems fixed, and a new Real Property Report.Accepted.Of course that's what happens in a buyer's market. Report
February 1, 20206 yr comment_993994 Congratulations! I'll probably be taking the plunge this fall. I'm terrified of the idea. But you give me hope its not insurmountable. Report
February 1, 20206 yr comment_994020 Congrats! We also just recently bought a new apartment, but it was somewhat easier since we owned the previous one. Report
February 1, 20206 yr comment_994056 grats! I'm not going to have to put up with some Petite Roi, who will call la gendarme when mon chein barks and annoys her entitled ass.sounds strangly specific... Report
February 2, 20206 yr Author comment_994080 Thanks. Just some paperwork to sign with the lawyers and the house is ours. @SealTeamPi. Best of luck with your purchase. It can be daunting. Especially when you start talking about figures in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, it gets surreal. As long as you keep your expectations reasonable, you'll be fine. We told our Realtor we didn't want a McMansion or a damned palace. We just wanted a starter home, which is what we got. @onbekende: sounds strangely specific. Well, la Peite Roi (Little King), was the neighbor" from hell. Her and her boyfriend did whatever they liked, including throw parties in the middle of the week. They parked their cars where they wanted. I mean they had me blocked in one morning, and I had to knock on their door to ask them to move the car. Asshat told me "You can walk to work." and tired to close the door.He got down their pretty quick when he saw the tow truck pull in.If anything annoyed them, they called the police. They called the police the guy who lived across the hall, and the guy downstairs, for playing a bit of music in the middle of the day. The elderly couple had a police complaint about their little dog, as did I. They called the police on the family that lived in the building because their children we making noise.They call the police on the teenagers who lived in the next building, because they were making noise in the middle of the day and claimed they were smoking dope.They threatened to call the police on on two children (I think they were eight), who lived in the area, because they were making noise and she claimed they were "beating up" her car. On a side note, I heard that exchange, they were cursing out the two little girls. I mean, if an adult spoke to me they way they were speaking to those two children, that adult would have their teeth knocked down the back of their throat.When John, the guy across the hall, spoke to those two grown brats about their behaviour, the cursed him out and..you guessed it, threatened to call the police. John told the two little girls to tell their parents about it, and that he was going to call the police and that those two kidults would get in trouble. They disappeared for two days.I'm looking forward to not having to be concerned about something like that happening again. Report
February 2, 20206 yr comment_994082 LOL "Fix bayonets!" On being blocked in. Sounds like we could have had real fun with this neighbor. Report
February 2, 20206 yr comment_994114 aaaah, the lovely neighbour from hell. to digress you from that all, I did also enjoy the 3 french terms you used, mainly cause you butchered all of them silly canadian Report
February 4, 20206 yr comment_994207 I bought a home last year and just recently got the remodel finished enough to move in. We still don't have fully working kitchen, but even then a yard, no neighbors, and ample parking make for a nice improvement from apartment life. -- Big congrats! Report
February 8, 20206 yr Author comment_994423 Thanks all. Just getting back from another trg Field X in Wainwright. Drunk as , f**k right now.Cripes, after spending a week in the frozen hell that is the Wainwright training area, do you blame me!?Our realtor is a real ball breaker. Glad my CSM recommended her.Got them down to 260k, new dishwasher, fix any plumbing issues, and a new Real Property Report. I need the RPR, when I put in the garage next summer.@Plankborn: Yep we would have. Remember the Plastic, Fantastic Dipthna...or Bitchna from Elizabeth Ave?@onbekende: or Sally if I may. Glad I made you laugh. Oui, mon francais est tres pauvres. Je suis desole. However, I am a Newfie, and I really don't speak either of the official languages, by' That being said. If any of you are up Edmonton way, Plankborn especially. You have a place to stay. Alberta or Freedom Land, is like a red state in the USA. They love them some Trump. Lys, you'd feel right at home. Report
February 8, 20206 yr comment_994446 Congrats HashIts great feeling of buying first real estate property Report
October 28, 20206 yr Author comment_1021032 Been a while. Hope all of you are doing fine, considering the plague that is upon us. Due to Covid 19, I'm "working" from home this week. We are still getting settled in the house. Most of our stuff is unpacked. I mean, really you don't know how much stuff you have until you have to box it all up and moved it. The Contractor we hired to do our floors and other things was a f##king crook. My husband wanted the house wired up for internet. "Yep", the contractor replied, "I can do that""How much", I said."$1 100.00" he replied.Four month's later, the shit still isn't working!Oh look, the thieving bastard left a bunch of tools lying around the house.Still hasn't completed the contract?Hello Office of the High Sheriff!Guess who seized all of the tools that crook left here? Had to get a WETT inspection done of the chimney, bloody thing needs to be extended by 2 feet.So off I go to Lowe's to buy some pipe.Guess who got in trouble?I was supposed to come back with chimney pipe. I came back with a Snow Blower, and no chimney pipe. Hell, I've been talking about getting a snow blower for a while."How much you pay for that?" says my husband."Well, with the power cord $336.00"."What! Seriously?""Yes. Jesus, you you rather I came home with the $1200.00 one I was drooling over? ""But still, when are you going to use it?""The first snow fall." Guess who was supposed to be sleeping on the couch? Yeah, one quick BJ took care of that. Report
October 28, 20206 yr comment_1021033 Yeah, don't tell me about the boxes. We moved into the new apartment about a year ago, and sitll, half our things are in boxes. Report
October 28, 20206 yr comment_1021037 Let's not talk about boxes, i have to pack in couple of weeks. Report
October 30, 20205 yr Author comment_1021185 Let's not talk about boxes, i have to pack in couple of weeks.I feel your pain. You don't know how much crap you have, until you have to pack it up and move it. Hope you have a good buddy who owns a truck. Report
November 5, 20205 yr comment_1021607 The boxes are probably more organized then if you move everything into cupboards Report
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