Oh sure, it's not quite as big as Tim Gill's new place, but I'm pretty thrilled that we've bought a new house!
Carol and I have talked for quite awhile about trying to find a larger, more modern house to give us some more room as the kids get older. The idea was we'd find one of those boxy triplexes or something fairly neutral (ie no more Edwardian rowhouses) in a less trendy neighbourhood (Little Italy is "hot") and use the price differential to pay for a reno that would open it up into a modern dream home.
Heh. Not so easy, as it turns out.
The gap between a reno'd house in Little Italy and a dump near the Galleria Mall is not as big as we'd hoped and early viewings were pretty depressing. However, on Friday we went to see a house not far from where we live now and it was very well maintained and giant -- without the usual giant price. We saw it at 10 am, made the offer at 11 and were signing papers by 4. Very exciting!
If you look from Google satellite (the red roof is ours, although stalkers note that Google conveniently shows the wrong address) it also has a nice big backyard -- huge ice rink next year!
Interestingly, a lot of houses on our current street have gone up for sale -- including the other half of our semi-detached - so it'll be interesting to see what they all go for.
Then all we have to do is fix up our current place, empty it of all the crap, sell it for buckets of money, then just use the buckets of money to fix up our new place.
Easy peasy... gulp.
Hey, Congrats! I'm sure your family will appreciate the bigger digs! Nothing like adding a bit of stress to your life! :)
When's the house warming?
Yeah, there wasn't enough chaos with 3 kids under 10. We thought we'd throw in some tradesmen and dust too. It will be nice to have more room, I'll say that. And I'll keep you posted on the "Bring your own Drywall" housewarming. :-)