We Have A Winner

Tonight Leon and I put an offer on a house and at about 11pm we got the phone call that the offer has been accepted. Essentially, this means, that Leon and I have just about purchased our first home.

If only it was that simple. We now have to pay an inspector $400 to tell us that it won't crumble into a million pieces and make sure that we can arrange all the financing in less than 10 days. After that we have to pay thousands in legal fees, land title registrations, insurance and deposits. This will be followed by the very expensive and exhausting venture of renting a U-haul or hiring a truck to move all of our stuff from BC. That will finally be capped off by the costs of transferring all of the utilities to our name and setting up my ever-needed high speed internet.

It'll rock if we are also able to find jobs in the new year.

Nope, this buying RE is not for the light of heart -- 'tis gritty stuff. And I can see how it can make couples turn on each other. But ohmygod the feeling that you get when you find out that you are going to be moving into your own HOUSE. It'll be ours. Ours. It is something that I have dreamed of for years.

Which means my amazing apartment will most likely be coming open very very soon. Whoever gets lucky enough to snatch that place will be blessed...it is big and bright and central and cheap. A Vancouver anomoly. Let me know if you are interested. In the meantime, send us good mortgage energy, because even if they have preapproved us, it is still not a guarantee for us 'strange actor types' and our 'sketchy paperwork' to qualify.

And heck, if it all falls through we will take our down payment money, fly to Peurto Plata and do some nesting back in beautiful Vancouver.

Not such a bad backup plan.