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Dominic and I had a nice date night in last night. He picked me up early from work and we decided to ride around and look at a few houses... found one we LOVED only to discover it was just bought. that seriously sucks. the other one I liked because it was "pretty" has foundational problems and...
we're in a pickle about these two houses. we looked at 5 or 6 different homes and two turned out to be pretty good deals. we'll find out how much we qualify for later on. the house in the top picture is pretty much brand new. it has everything already in it. built pretty new, but not sure what year....
Curb appeal does matter: Unfortunately the way the neighbor has his/her property matters, too. Junk cars and unkempt yards ARE a deterrent. Do's Dust De-clutter the closets Wash the windows, especially if they are not covered by window treatments Sweep/vacuum Make sure your house does not stink Weed...
A bullet-point update on the goings-on 'round here... We are lowering the price of the house. Yes, already. If we really want to move this summer, we have to be more aggressive. This does not give us much negotiating room. But the market sucks, so we really have no choice. Maybe someone will come...
Adam and I agreed about a month ago that we would rent somewhere else in the city. I was sick of our apartment building (we have been there forever!) and we aren't finding anything in the suburbs that we wanted to buy. We haven't turned up an apartment we like and I'm resigning myself to the fact...
We've decided to live in the city for another year and find a new apartment!!! I wish we had done this months ago, but am thrilled that Adam is "on board" with the plan. A little scary to be giving notice without knowing where we are moving to. I saw a place on Saturday morning that was slightly...
I've been freaking lately that we aren't making any progress on the househunt. The $300/month we are getting hit with for being month-to-month is a real hangup for me. It's obnoxious! Househunting has been an agonizing process and I feel like we are a little unfocused.... Jersey or PA burbs... Main...
This past Saturday Glenn, my mom and stepdad helped me move out of my apartment and into storage. The weather was not the best for the move, but it's over for now. I am settling into my aunt and grandma's house once again. Unfortunately on Friday Glenn was laid off from his job as a programmer for a...
Had a dinner at a French restaurant, Antoine, in Verdun of all places Friday night with Cat, Ian, Sylvain and Masa's Japanese friend Yukiko. For those not familiar with Montreal, Verdun is like the "Bronx" equivalent of our fair city, although more and more middle class people are moving in the...
We went back on Tuesday to see the house on Haverford Road. I wanted to see if my solution would work for the closet/bathroom situation in the masterbedroom. We also wanted to get a sense for how noisy it was on the road and what we thought of everything in daylight. My bathroom/closet solution...
1) Gas prices. I am so so glad that this doesn't directly affect me. Every news program seems to have at least one story about how high prices have become (and they are much higher in Canada than the US, now and always), but since we walk or take metro everywhere, gas prices just don't figure into...
This past Saturday, Glenn and I looked at more houses with my aunt. Again, the quality of the homes we saw was good like the previous weekend, except for one house that was right on a corner of a busy intersection with a stoplight. After looking over the list of houses we saw over the past two...
So these friends of ours, Catherine & Ian, just bought their own place, a HOUSE. With a yard and everything. Now, anyone who is familiar with Montreal will know how rare detached houses are on the island (well, it's not actually detached, I guess), unless you want to live way out in Beaconsfield or...
My aunt sent us a list of places to see this Saturday. Some of them seem promising, including a few in Irvine. Glenn and I met for dinner last night to see what we wanted to do at this point. We decided to look this weekend and not put out any offers until later. We still like the top four from last...
Ever since we saw this house (#4) I feel more and more like we can overcome the things we didn't like and really make it our home. My initial concerns were the small master bedroom, tiny master bedroom closets, and needing-an-update master bath. At first, my solution was to gut the shower and create...
We didn't look at 15 properties, but we did spend five and a half hours looking on Sunday. The properties we did see were generally good. We narrowed our focus to four: a condo in Tustin, a condo in Aliso Viejo and two SFRs in Lake Forest. Glenn and I need to decide if we want to make offers on any...
Realtor #3: Houses 1-4 #1 - Tudor House: Very cool looking stone tudor on a very small lot (0.14 acre) with the neighboring house practically on top of you. It was also on the corner of a very busy intersection. We knew before we even walked in that this house wasn't for us. It had an in-law suite,...
So, we got a referal from a friend for a PA 'burb realtor. I traded phone calls with him for about a week until I reached him (including a wacky call that Adam received at 9pm on Saturday night when I was in FL - who calls at that hour?). Finally, last Wednesday or Thursday, we spoke in person....
Since last November I was preparing to move to Halifax, Nova Scotia, this coming summer. Not only was I lucky to hear so early where I was going but I received my official paperwork in mid-February; almost a month early. The job was a great opportunity and something that I've hoped for many years....
It's been three week now since I last blogged about my running... or anything for that matter. Things have been pretty wacked-out around my household lately but I have kept on running: 7-13 Apr - 32 miles for the week. A generally good week of running despite missing a run on Friday. I had a great 4...
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