At last...a place with a garage
 

It's taken a lot of looking but I've finally found a house with a decent sized garage...my condo is sold, the house is bought (not paid for..give me about 30 years or so;)). I take possesion on January 19th..can't wait.

The house is kinda small (722sqft) but is on a 50'x135' lot fairly close to downtown Saskatoon & has a 22'x26' garage & a car port.

I have to do some work to the basement as soon as I move in (structural repairs, sounds worse than it really it is) but it's going to be great to have somewhere to park my two ponies. Right now I have a small condo with one outdoor parking spot. My vert has been at a friends place under a coverall all summer & is now in storage for the winter.

I think this is a bit of a milestone for me as I only moved to Canada 2.5 years ago whilst getting divorced (best diet plan ever btw[8D]) so for me to be back on the property ladder so quickly & debt free, except the mortgage of course, due to the huge rise in house prices here (bought my condo right before the last boom - it's gone up $60,000 in 6 months) is pretty good going.

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Congratulations!

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Congrates, and on the big boom, my parents bought before it to, have a nice sized house (about 2100 sq.ft. W/ 1000 sqft. deck:D) all for the low price of $86,000:D now worth $250,000 [:o]

Good luck with the house, and I hope you are the true one who enjoys it[8D]

Pic's?

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wow, that is small, overall ours is 3300 sq ft.... but me and my dad built it though, so.... it cost 300,000 to build and its appraised at 550,000

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Congrats....you now get to paint walls whatever color you want[8D]rotfl, j/k!!!!!!! After the repairs do you plan on enclosing the car port? A weather free stall foreach pony;).

I am soo ready to get a place of my own but I need to leech the parents a little more until I'm out(or close) of college.
My parents house has 2K+(can't remember exact number)sq/ft and 15acres for $260K I think.

Our house is nothing compared to my cousins house though(4hrs from Seattle, right on a lake) which they built. They have like 4500sq/ft, an indoor pool,all the rooms aremaster suites, and they've spent close to 600K and it's appraised at 2mil. The main floors' ceiling is 26ft up. They usually put a 24ft Christmas tree up every year(they have to climb the rafters to do it[:o])and light up the lake from there side to the opposite shore(about a foot ball field length). The down side is they only have 1acre(all steep terrain), no garage, and a neighbor who basically built his house on the property line.

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Thanks guys - I know the house is really small but there is only me, the dog, the two cars & the g/f when she sleeps over at my place rather than hers. It's kinda funny to know that Sleepers deck is bigger than my house:D:D.

The housing boom will hit again in the springtime so buying in the winter will mean I gain equity really quickly. It's just nice to find a big lot in that part of the city & to be getting rid of my noisy upstairs neighbour who I swear is a clog dancer or something, noisy f^cker[:@].

http://images.mls.ca/listings/reb27/.../0/2580401.jpghttp://images.mls.ca/listings/reb27/.../0/2580402.jpghttp://images.mls.ca/listings/reb27/.../0/2580403.jpg

a few pics from the mls website.

I've got a lot of catching up to do - divorces are not good for the bank balance, either don't do it or get a pre-nup[X(]- but I'm getting there. The cost of moving country, not being able to work for 6 months pending a work permit & the cars are now paid for in full with a decent downpayment & some cash for reno's left in the pot.

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Nice looking house. Looks like one I use to live in when I was living on the coast (I think the house was something like 400 sqft with 4 people in it[&:][&:])

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It is a bit weird that in country this size any house under 1000sq ft even exist at all[&:]. 400sq ft - wow I can't even imagine how cramped that would be for 4 people....what did you do..take turns to stand inside??:D j/k.

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We only slept in the house, my whole family would either be in the forest going to nature "walks" or hanging out at a mall or friends place

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I see, it was a holiday home. That's a whole other thing when you only need something to sleep in.