28 days to possession Lots of lists dot the internet on ‘ways to add value to your house’. I’ve found exactly zero on doing similar to an apartment – maybe the esteemed English broadsheets forget such things exist? We’re sorry we’re poorer than you, we didn’t mean it. Today, then, meant my first DIY project [...]
House hunting takes a very long time. 60 days into our search and I’m realising it would have been better spent walking to Key West. Maybe I could have picked up some Detroit real estate along the way. I hate house hunting. No, really. I had no idea it would take this long to find an ugly [...]
Some days, I think we should just up sticks and move to Detroit. We could buy half of Motown for what our microscopic Vancouver one-bedroom ugly baby will eventually cost us. Half of this photo is Canada, so we’ll have that as well: Vancouver’s housing prices make me mad. Play the addictive quiz game Crack Shack or [...]
We’ve barely started and already apartment hunting kinda sucks. Where’s the eBay “buy now” button? We’re not used to looking and waiting anymore. The search criteria we gave Agent Awesome make it seem that we’ll settle for just any apartment, if the price and ugly factor are right. Not so. Girl’s gotta have standards, even when her [...]
Vancouver! Are you kidding me!? As a local first-time home buyer, you’ll all but have to take up yoga. Deep breaths and calming thoughts? Gather them round and hug them tight. Here’s the awful fact: to buy anywhere decent in this city, you need $300k. Believe it. But I’m a first-time buyer! How can I possibly? [...]
