We made an offer earlier this week, and much to our surpprise they accepted it offhand without countering on the price. We have only a few more days to close, making this a tiring week and then we take possession of the house in 2 weeks.
This week Jenn and I were surprised to find out the bank pre-approved us for a 100% financing mortgage, despite Jenn being on EI for the last couple of months TD bank was willing to work with her income and provided us with a $180k pre-approval, where oddly our mortgage broker was not.
So we have spent our weekend searching the HRM for some new place to call home. We’ve been out most of this weekend and after seeing perhaps 30 homes we have narrowed our search down to two homes, one of particular interest in the Leblin Park area.
I think tomorrow we will make our decision as to whether or not we place an offer.
Either way the experience has been overwhelming and exhausting. It seems every time we speak with someone we learn something new about the whole process, closing costs alone could prove to be a problem. We may not have a choice but to wait until November to place an offer due to these costs.
Surprisingly not many people really understand the work of the Canadian Industry Minister, Jim Prentice, and his recent attempt to violate Canadian citizens in the worst possible way–by taking our rights as consumers.
I have recently drafted an open letter I will be forwarding to Bill Estabrooks, the MP for my provincial riding. I will be posting this letter on my website likely towards the weekend when I have sufficient time to review and mail a copy to my MP.
In the mean time, if you have not brought yourself up to date on the issues presented in Bill C-61, Michael Geist has created an excellent resource for us non political types which breaks down the important details here: http://www.faircopyrightforcanada.ca/
As the next parliamentary hearing will occur on or around September 15th, you can be sure I will bring more details, and probably start a permanent page for any related correspondance.
UPDATE 2008-09-06: I have created a page with the letter I have sent to several members of both my MLA and MP. Please find this in the menu, along the left hand side of this page, entitled “Bill C-61: Open Letter”
