BOUGHT and SOLD!!!

That’s right! We are moving July 15th!

Remember the last post? The Hubby and I worked our a**es off that evening. Cleaning, organizing and staging our home. I have to say, we did a fabulous job! We were so impressed with the final look that we wanted to put an offer in!

Well, another other couple felt the same way too because... we sold that evening!

To this day, we still can’t believe that our home sold so quickly. We didn’t have much time to celebrate because we needed to find a house. Can we say stressful? Although we were in a better situation than last year (we bought our townhome first before selling our apartment), it was still stressful. We didn’t want to settle on a home just because we had to buy one AND we didn’t want to go through the trouble of renting and putting our things into storage (if we didn't find a home).

After a lot of trial and error, we found the perfect home so goodbye Strata and goodbye Gremlin!

The house doesn’t have a basement suite but it’s a whole lot cheaper than the previous homes we’ve been looking at. Our mortgage will definitely go up but it’s still affordable. We just need to really cut down on our variable spending (we are spending about $1500 each month on nothing).

We are also seriously looking at hosting exchange students/home stays. It will definitely help pay off the difference in mortgage plus add to our savings. We’ll see. The most important thing for us is that we don’t to sacrifice our lifestyle and freedom. It may be difficult to juggle in the beginning but I’m confident it will all work out.

Our new home is a bit further out from where we currently live. We’re not in the ‘central’ location anymore but that’s okay. We’re only less than 15 minutes away PLUS the new neighbourhood is gorgeous; there are lots of parks for the pups and lots of shops within walking distance.

As you can imagine, we’ve been really busy since June 9th; lots of packing and planning. Luckily, The Hubby is off work (he’s a teacher, lucky bum) so he’s been plugging away. I’m so thankful he isn’t as lazy as I am!

Yahoo!