building a home for summer 2009 – choices!
July 13th, 2008 -- Posted in family, friends, future / dreams / goals, hill to haven, pics | Comments OffSo I’ve been in new-house la-la land all week, and here are the ups and downs…
Paul got yet another e-mail at work specifying which groups out of each section/division/branch (I tried asking him to explain it and within seconds my head was spinning with government jargon…) are moving, and although the entire “section” is slotted to start moving in Fall 2009, his branch will not be among the first to be moved. They may not get around to his group until Fall 2010!!
OK, but the good news is that Paul agrees with me that we shouldn’t put off moving any longer. The “RCMP is moving to Barrhaven” news started like, pretty much right after he started working there and we have always planned our big move around that! It’s been delayed and changed and who knows how longer it might continue to do that. However, we are ready to move out of this house, and although we can wait one more year, I don’t think we can wait 2 or 3.
Especially given how fast things seem to be moving there in Barrhaven! It feels like a “land grab/ gold rush” thing! 
The prices just keep going up and up (for one builder, the prices I’d seen on one website were off by over $20,000 by the time we got the latest price sheet from the sales centre!!!) and the residential area is hungrily eating up everything around what’s already there. Google Maps and even our GPS can’t figure out where we’re going, yet we were there in person looking at completely formed neighbourhoods (a bit muddy mind you, but still owner-occupied!). It’s just crazy.
It’s exciting though, and we’ve waited so long for this and worked so hard… We started saving up for a house the summer after graduation from uni (also the summer we got married), every single month. On top of that, we took out an RRSP loan a couple years ago for $10K and that contribution will all come back out for the first time homebuyer’s plan.
So want to catch a glimpse of what we’ve been saving for all this time?
Here’s a peek at a few of our top choices! 
