I’ve made reference in past posts to some of the upgrades and renovations we’ve done at our house over the past 15 years (and when I say “we”, I’m seriously indebted to Shea’s parents and my parents who helped many of these projects happen saving us *thousands* in labour costs if we’d had to hire […]
The deal is done, the papers signed at the lawyer, the only thing left to do to complete the selling of our old home and finalize the transition to our new home is to hand over the keys on Friday (okay, the realtors do that.) Anyhow, beyond the very obvious single answer that “There was […]
Shea and I made the offer on our new house on October 5 and took possession on November 22. For a variety of reasons, we were in a fortunate position where we didn’t have to make the purchase conditional on the sale of our old house and, in fact, we were fully prepared to float […]
Moving day is done, lots of unpacking still to do but the new house is starting to come together! (Hard to believe those two black couches are ones we bought from The Brick over fifteen years ago when we lived in Calgary. They’re still in great shape to this day!)
As part of the process of selling our house, we dug through a box of old files we’ve kept over the years – manuals for appliances, receipts for things we’ve bought for the house, and the original home inspection report we got for our house in 2004. One of the things that stood out having […]
Here’s a pic of me with our realtor’s sign when we sold the condo we owned in Calgary in October 2004 and with the pending move (basically two nights left in our current home!), it’s got me thinking back on other places I’ve laid my head… 0-5 (?) – my parents live in a rental […]
We’ve got our house listed, have already had a handful of showing and I find myself watching videos like this in the small hours of the night (not bad advice but not sure it’s highly top secret knowledge either!) 😉
We likely won’t be permanently into our new house until later next week but that doesn’t mean, now that we have possession, we can’t start getting settled in!
