The Final Deal

So it's been a busy couple of weeks since we placed an offer on the new home here in small town British Columbia.  Given that it's actually the third house we have tried to buy, we didn't want to make a big deal out of it unless it was going to happen for real...and we're here, it's really happening. So, what was the final deal? It was listed for $289,000, and we settled at $279,000. We started...

Inspection Update!

Here's another view of our *finger's crossed* next house.   The inspection was the middle of last week and here is what we learned.... It's a good, solid house!  The inspector said he was actually surprised that he didn't find anything huge wrong because of the age.  It was...

Appraisal Update

Here's what might be our next house! The appraisal is in and it came back better then expected considering our experience with this appraiser on the last house.  Our accepted offer on the house is $279,000 and the value came in at $280,000!!  Wooho...

Networth Update

With all of the recent money changes, I thought it was time to do a net worth update.  Our investments keep fluctuating and overall we're down a couple of thousand dollars there, but now that we don't have a mortgage payment (at least for a little while), we'll be able to make up some net worth...

Wine Making

I haven't written about it a lot, but some of you may know that I've been making wine for a couple of years now. I took a bit of a hiatus while I was pregnant, but over the last month I've been getting back into the swing of things. I have two kits going - a Gewurztraminer and a Shiraz. The...

Conditions....

So, we've put in an offer and it's been accepted buy the seller.  Now we need to work through the conditions to see if we're going to close on the sale.  They are: Insurance Financing Home Inspection We had a hiccup with Insurance already that's been worked through.  The house is zoned for both commercial and residential.  At first, the insurance office told us that if we had...

Tax Refunds

It took some time, but I finally got our tax returns prepped and submitted.  This year was a bit more complicated than others because we were able to make a claim for moving expenses. The tricky part though, is that Jordan moved for work in 2015, but the house didn't sell until 2016 - so...

Offer Accepted!

Well, here goes nothing. We just put an offer in on a house in our new little town that was accepted after much back and forth.   We now have three weeks to sort out conditions, cross your fingers for us.&nbs...

Monthly Spend Report

In all the years that I've been tracking our spending, this month has been our lowest spend.  Incredible! I've included our March spend, and the average for 2016 so far. You can see that not only did we spend nothing in eating out we spent very little comparably in gas as well. We spent...

Emergency Vet Trip

Over Easter, my aunt was in town visiting and took our larger dog out for a walk.  While she was out with him, another large dog ran from his backyard which had the gate left open, and charged our pup.  There was quite a scuffle but after a few minutes, the other dog's owner came and pulled...

March Eating Out Ban

Guys! Our eating out ban was so super successful!  We spend nothing, notta, zero, ziltch in restaurants in March!  We have $800 left over in the day to day right now, and are feeling so good about how this went.  So good in fact, that we have decided that while we won't say no if a friend or family member invites us out, we're going to continue on the ban if it's just the two of u...