Showing posts with label About Finding Our New Home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label About Finding Our New Home. Show all posts

Oct 8, 2010

Home Inspection


Rained all day! That, however, was a good thing because today was the day the home inspector looked over the house we want to buy. Our Realtor, Lisa Vandenbussche, picked us up at the campsite and took us to the new house to meet with the inspector and the other Realtor. I took a lot of photos while Brian stayed right close to the home inspector, who is very anal about the details. He really takes his time and I can tell you that Mike Holmes would be proud and give a thumbs up to this guy I’m sure.

It felt good to be back in the house again. I was so comfortable in this house. I felt like I could have just stayed right there and call it home. I like the way the owners had decorated it too. There isn’t much I would change at all but with the photos I’ve taken I shouldn’t have any problem figuring out what I’m going to do. Just hope everything goes okay and we can get it sooner than later.

This evening, is our last night camping in the motorhome.

Sep 26, 2010

Bought a house in Ontario

Decided to stayover at Turkey Point for an additional day. We've been traveling so much that we haven't stayed more than one night at any campground so we thought it would be nice to just relax a bit and stay another night. Also that would give us a chance to see our good friends from Brantford again. Rob and Michelle said they would drive out to Turkey Point and camp with us for the night.




The biggest news!!! We took a drive today with a realtor in the Simcoe area. She showed us 5 houses in the Norfolk county. 

Guess what -- we found one that we really liked and put an offer on it.  It is out in the country only a few minutes from Lake Erie.



It is outside of Port Rowan, Ontario near Long Point Provincial Park and about 20 minutes from Turkey Point. This house has everything we wanted except a swimming pool. It met 9 out of 10 things on our Top 10 list of things we are looking for.

OUR TOP 10 PRIORITY LIST

1. AREA: SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO
30- 40 MIN TO MAJOR CENTRE

2. BUDGET $200,00 TO $250,000
WILL CONSIDER FIX-ER-UPPER IF THE PRICE IS RIGHT

3. CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONING

4. PRIVACY & QUIET

5. LARGE YARD WITH LOTS OF SHADE TREES (LANDSCAPING)
LOOKING FOR ACREAGE 1 TO 3 ACRES or EDGE OF QUIET SMALL TOWN

6. WORKSHOP or ROOM TO BUILD ONE

7. FIREPLACE

8. BUNGALOW WITH OPEN FLOOR PLAN

9. 2 - 3 BEDROOMS

10. SWIMMING POOL OR NEAR A BEACH