We spent about 5 hours driving around looking at 9 houses today. Some real nice ones, some other not so hot. There’s a couple that we’ve really got our eyes on, though they’re mostly 180k-190k. Ouchies. We’re meeting her again on Friday morning and probably saturday as well.
One of the ones I really like on 29 newcombe drive, lower sackville. It’s wicked. Pretty much my dream home. It had the nicest hardwood floors I’ve ever seen, wicked load of space downstairs. Tonnes of character (the good kind, not the kind that steals your sandwhich when you’re not looking). It had an AWESOME backyard with a super nice deck, giant garage that I could easily store the car and bike with, with lots of stuff for doing man work (insert grunt here). It was just all around awesome and I wanted her to give an offer on it immediately. IMMEDIATELY! Holy crap it was awesome.
Another on 126 green village lane, dartmouth. Though this one doesn’t have a garage, it’s real purdy inside. It’s a townhouse, which ain’t so hot (it reminded us of the truman show, where everyone’s house looked identical). It’s an end unit (out of a set of 4 houses), which gave it a better lawn and more access to the backyard. Very, very pretty inside, but had no garage and an unfinished basement. Although the unfinished look is cool because it was so new and still very clean, it’s probably not for us (cause it had no garage).
This one was a little cheaper, still decent inside, at 28 albany terrace, dartmouth. This one said “pool included!” I didn’t know that meant this rubber deflated thing sitting in a very tiny backyard filled with leaves and garbage. If it was cleaned up and stuff it may be awesome, but looking at that mess made it gross. There was also moldy tiki lamps in the backyard. Yuck. Decently located, with a nice front door view of a field and trees and some water. Nice and bright. Also a little cheaper than the other places, though it kinda showed. Lack of hardwood flooring or ceramic. Everything was average carpet and laminate.
Here’s one I hated, at 109 slayter street, dartmouth. Initially Hollywood thought she’d love it. It was idealy located, but ridiculously overpriced. They even had chopped out part of their wall in their ugly basement in the shape of their widescreen tv and a speaker on top. Why, I have no idea.. To move it back 3 inches I guess. Yeech. It grossed me right out. The garage rank of cigarettes and was an obviously cheap addon to the house (not obvious from the outside though, but very obvious from the inside).
Here’s one that I initially thought I’d love, but ended up not really liking it (Hollywood, and the realor, hated it and it showed). I had dreams of throwing beer bottles off the upstairs patio at solicitors, but sadly those dreams shall never be realised. 31 windwood drive, lower sackville. The place looked like it was right out of a 1990 catelogue, with some real bad space wasting ideas thrown in for good measure.
Here’s another one of our choices that we really liked, this one ranks up there pretty high. It was perfectly ideal EXCEPT down the street about 1km is a big container shipyard, so it’s probably noisey all the time. I didn’t hear anything when I was indoors though. As well, across the street are apartment buildings. Not real purdy ones. However, the house is HUUUUUUUGE and very, very nice. It’s about a 5 min drive to work. 38 evans avenue, Halifax (the only one we’ve seen in halifax, actually). I think despite the neighbourhood, the backyard was very secluded and we’d be really happy here.
This one is really blah. I’m having a hard time remembering it, it was characterless and just all-around blah. Plus it was all the way out at 101 governor’s lake drive, timberlea, which is a very long drive to work. Longer than I’d like (I think timberlea is out of the realm of possibility at this point, just too damn far).
This is another baby split entry (which means 2 bedrooms upstairs and one down, whereas a regular split I think has 3 bedrooms upstairs, as far as I remember anyhow). It was decent. The property was huge and is sort of on a soft corner of the street, mowing it would take hours! Not a bad place though. 11 ryan’s ridge court, lower sackville.
This one on 73 ashdale crescent, timberlea, needed a LOOOT of paint. The walls were chocolate coloured, quite dark and unpleasant. I found there to be too many walls in the place, making each room smaller than it need be just to cram “more rooms” into the place. It was ok. There was a giant rock face on the back of the property, didn’t offer much of a view but a lot of privacy. Not too bad, but too far away.
When we got home from looking at all these places, we realized what an ugly fucking shithole we live in. Can’t wait to move out. I put 12k of rent into this dump.. Ugh..
Officially the longest post ever.
Pulling up the weeds in my weed garden (leaving nothing but dirt) is rough. For some reason the entire front lawn is almost completely weeds (we bought the house like that not knowing what a pain in the ass it is to fix). Today I de-weeded it for 3 hours and I’m maybe 1/4 to 1/3 done. I need to look up proper de-weeding technique because I found that often the damned weeds would break away from their roots, which I know means that the stupid weed will grow back (which they learned from starfish, weeds of the sea). I did read that de-weeding after rain is a good time to do it because the ground isn’t as hard so the weeds don’t break off as much. Nice.