It's Official!

Alright, now that it's all official we can share the news: We are first-time homeowners!!! We bought a house in Barrie! That's right, no more renting for us! We found a nice house, about the size of Steve and Katrina's townhouse (for those who were there), but it's detached, which is really nice! It's a corner lot, so we have a great sized yard! The house needs a bit of work eventually (cosmetic...there's a lot of tacky wallpaper and it needs new carpet and some landscaping). But we'll be able to do it ourselves and it doesn't have to be done right away, which is nice. The closing date is June 30 which is much faster than we anticipated, but we'll work with it! The bonus was that since they wanted such an fast closing date they were quite willing to negotiate on the price.....we're pretty sure we got a pretty good deal, especially considering Barrie is a quite expensive market! So that has been keeping us really busy the last week! We've been driving all over, going to appointments, spending hours on the phone coordinating everything and trying to work at the same time! It's been really crazy! Anyways, we're quite excited and thought that it was finally time to share our news!