update

Good luck on selling your home. By the way your home is beautiful.

May The Force Be With You

you can have alot of fun on 24 acres... :lol:

Hi everyone, here’s another update…

Our house sold for 2 grand below asking in seven days. The horse farm was a bust, nice place but a couple of really dumpy :ohmy: neighbours so…

There are two properties that we are considering, one is across from lake Nosbonsing two acres with lake views and access across the road. Large farm-like garage, but the house, while being able to handle the family is small and I would have to add on right away. I could probably get a slab on grade foundation in by the winter but the framing of the addition would have to wait until next summer. This house would put me closer to work by about 10 minutes than my current drive.

The other is a wooded property about 1.5 acres with a small river (about 30 feet across) just across the road. (great for my kayak ) and there is a modern two car garage. The house is four bedrooms and really needs no work at the moment. But this one this puts me ten minutes further than my current drive.

Oh well, decisions decisions…the conditions on the offer on our current home will be lifted this Monday and when it’s official, we’ll choose, one or the other...less drive & construction or more drive and more relaxation...hmmm I think I know which way I'm leaning

Till next time, MTFBWUA…

could always flip a coin and let fate decide....:laugh:
yeah i know it's a cop-out for deciding but while the coin is in the air you'll discover which you really want ....hmmmm i remember a post about that somewhere here... :laugh:

Home is where the heart is as they say - id always say go for the property you love the most, not the one thats the nearest to work.

Look at it this way, you may change job and get work nearer to home sometime in the future

Its only ten minutes - not like an extra hour

Dont forget the spare room for all your jedi acquaintances to come and visit you

MTFBWY - A

I wish you the best of luck. Please let us know what happens.

We are still looking, we were an hour away from closing the deal on the house beside the river and the lake but is was not to be so. Prior bidders who had a conditional offer that was expiring decided that knowing we were going to take the property...they would risk carrying two mortgages rather than let me have it. Oh well back to the search, I have upped my search to 250k range, it opens up so many more properties, its on the upper end of my comfort zone but there is really not much out there under 200k.

My wife and I will be looking at a century-old victorian home, 469 feet of river frontage on five acres, brick three stories four bedrooms, and in the rear two one-bedroom appartments currently rented (five or six onths left on the larger lease). Asking 249,900

http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?propertyId=9334917



On Thursday we will be visiting a 34 acre home three bedrooms lots of land but it may be too close to the highway...I will have to listen very carefully when we're there. Asking 259,900

http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?propertyId=9118943



Wish us luck!!

tell you what - i'll squat outside in a tin shack - make tonnes of mess n noise

then you can haggle for a large discount - pay me in food n coffee for the 'work' and the jobs a goodun

or plan B - keep looking

Im sure the right place is out there somewhere for you all - as you said - it just wasnt to be

Probably had termites or squirrels anyway

MTFBWY - A

After the sooo many weeks of excitement and dissipointment, I am very pleased to say that we have found and closed the deal for our new home.

We decided and purchased a home on 32 pine wooded acres complete with a stream boasting an eight foot water fall. *very Zen*

I apologize for being away for so long, but with the realty, financial, insurance and laywer meetings behind, I am looking forward be getting back to Temple business this weekend.

Thats great news.
Glad to have you back.