Offered on a House....finally!!

[Aleks]

Re: Offered on a House....finally!!

So he accepted the offer, now its in the banks hands to do the final approval of the property and my employment and stuff.....hopefully that all works out!

[Smartiepants]

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Congrats, hope it all works out for you!

[dubjetta]

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Congrats man! Hope everything goes smoothly.

[R_Ethug]

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sweet alex.. the home buying process is kinda fun/no fun.. mine went pretty smoothly.. gave offer they took it same day.. got mortage the next week then waited 2 months for the lawyer,etc to get it all ready for move in day.. so not bad..

[Aleks]

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2 months?? Wow, I hoping the posession date we agreed on of June 15 holds up...

[1.8Trip]

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You'll be fine.

[R_Ethug]

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oh no i purposly told them to take all the time they needed to get a sept1 move in date which worked great with my current appt lease then so no rules were broken

[Aleks]

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So I get the keys tommorrow morning....YAY.....I'm actually moving though on the 22nd, so another week in the hood for me....ahhh.....

[Klobi-One-Kinobi]

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Congrats!

[NeonGTI]

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If anyone thinks that buying a house is a nasty affair you should try having one built.

WORST EXPERIENCE EVER.

It ranks right up there with paying to see a proctologist and having him use welding gloves.

[Khyron]

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If anyone thinks that buying a house is a nasty affair you should try having one built.

WORST EXPERIENCE EVER.

It ranks right up there with paying to see a proctologist and having him use welding gloves.

And then there's people like me that have absolutely no problems at all. I even skipped my 6 month inspection because nothing needed work that couldn't wait till the 1 year. It's all about planning and a bit of luck. I can't see buying an older house myself.

Khyron

[1.8Trip]

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And then there's people like me that have absolutely no problems at all. I even skipped my 6 month inspection because nothing needed work that couldn't wait till the 1 year. It's all about planning and a bit of luck. I can't see buying an older house myself.

Khyron

I've had the same experience. 2 years in the Ridge and all is well. Planning is definately the key. Picking up the errors in the drawings before they are built are prolly the biggest thing.

[gaffer]

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If anyone thinks that buying a house is a nasty affair you should try having one built.

WORST EXPERIENCE EVER.

It ranks right up there with paying to see a proctologist and having him use welding gloves.

I hear you, my wife & I built a house last year, the biggest purchase of my life, and they totally screw you over. It was hands down the most stressful period of my life. Even the most planning & thinking was not enough to counteract the stupidity of my salesman, site supervisor and trades who worked on my house. Now I laugh everytime I see an ad for my builder. Their slogan should be changed to "My home, my way...my ass"

I really think the primary problem is that there are too many houses being built, and too few qulaified trades available. As well, the price of the house is a lot of money to me, but $200,000+ is not alot to a builder, so they dont really see how it can impact the homebuyer.

On the other end though, owning a home, and not renting is a very gratifying experience. Congrats on the new pad

Andrew

[R_Ethug]

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i was lucky i bought a 1 year old showhome that was loaded.. i like it alot great for a single guy thats for sure

[James]

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Bah, we've built 2 houses since we moved to calgary. The first one was community home (douglasdale) but our house now is custom built and took 14 months to build. Intricate woodwork and crap like that..pretty sick but it was honestly a full time job trying to keep on their mistakes and make sure its done right..and these guys are the contractors making the huge dollars for doing it, I can't even imagine having Avi or Jayman or whatever build a house like that..Congrats on the purchase, hopefully will be my next as well