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It seems like everyone is trying to sell their home in our area

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Over the last few months it seems like 30% to 50% of our neighbors have thought about selling their homes. I’m amazed at all of the “for sale” signs that I see as I walk through the neighborhood with our dog.

The house immediately beside me and the one on the corner (two houses down) are still up for sale. Both have been up for sale for about a month. The housing market here in Toronto has apparently slowed down a bit … not drastically, but there’s been a few articles recently that say it’s slowing down. Hopefully my neighbors homes sell soon. I’m curious as to who our new neighbors will end up being. Hopefully we’ll get along ok!

If the other houses that I see up for sale on neighboring streets are sold soon they’ll be a convoy of moving trucks roaming the neighborhood soon! LOL .. like that will happen.

Are there any homes for sale close to your house? Are they selling slower than they normally do?





Houses are selling like hotcakes in my neighborhood

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I wrote a post on one of my other blogs about a week ago about the number of houses close to us that have gone up for sale lately. They’re selling like hotcakes it seems!

I’m pretty sure that there was a news story a few days ago where some real estate companies were saying that house sales were slower than normal this past spring and so far this summer here in Toronto, but the way houses are going up for sale and being sold within a week or two I don’t think there’s a problem in this particular neighborhood.

I’m glad our housing market is doing so well. I keep hearing about people losing their homes in the US or requesting foreclosure help. I think it’s particularly bad in California if I’m not mistaken. I hope it doesn’t get that way here in Canada. Our economy has been doing better than the US economy since 2001. It’s starting to have some trouble, but as I said hopefully things don’t get that bad here.

One neighbor just a few houses down sold her house in just under two weeks and to the best of my knowledge it went for about $350,000. Her house is pretty much the same as ours so I guess if we put ours up for sale we’d get somewhere around that price too. Good to know but we aren’t planning on selling anytime soon.

I just hope that all of our new neighbors are nice people. We have a great neighborhood and we are all fairly friendly – at least to say hi or wave at each other when we see one an other if not actually visiting each others homes.

Thinking of buying property in Panama?

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New neighbors soon!

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Well our next door neighbors finally sold their house! I have no idea what the final offer was, but I suspect it was several thousand lower than what they’d originally asked. Looks like we’ll have new neighbors moving in in early April.

Chris thinks he saw our new neighbors to be when they were looking at the house. It’s a young couple. Hopefully a friendly and fairly quite people. By quiet I don’t mean I’m wishing they are excessively quiet … just no noisy Karaoke parties like our current neighbors please!

Sometime this year we’ll have new neighbors on the other side of the house too. My elderly neighbor Sofie – the one I call my stalker – had a mild stroke two weeks ago and she’s in the hospital. Her family had finally talked her into moving in with them so I guess the house will go up for sale sometime soon.

Her oldest son has been busy working in the basement over the last week or so. I’m not sure what he’s doing down there but it sure is noisy! Maybe he’s digging the basement foundation out to make the floor to ceiling height better. As I’ve probably mentioned a few times our basement was made for very short people. I’ve got to walk around ours hunched over and I’m sure all our neighbors basements are like that too unless they’ve done some work to increase the height.

So I guess we’ll be seeing moving vans around here soon. I think the new couple moving in is from New York so maybe we’ll see some New York movers vans.

It’s kind of exciting getting new neighbors. I just hope they’re good people.

Our neighbors home is still up for sale

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Our neighbors house still hasn’t sold yet. I think it’s been up for sale since the end of September.

The other day I was in our back enclosed porch cleaning up the area so our puppy wouldn’t get into anything that might harm her and someone was seeing the house next door. The people stopped to talk on the porch and didn’t realize I was right next to them on my porch (the window in between is frosted) and I over heard them saying the house was too much of a fixer upper for them.

The house really does need work. The real estate agent originally had it listed at $349,000 but it looks like it’s been lowered to $333,000. Both prices are really good for our area. I’m fairly certain with the work we’ve done to our home we could list ours at close to one hundred thousand higher, but there home really is in bad shape inside.

Chris was talking to the owner the other day and he told Chris that mortgage companies won’t lend anyone money for the house because their oil tank is more than 15 years old. Hmmm so is ours but we have insurance. It makes me wonder if they don’t even have home insurance? Anyway, they are going to have the oil tank removed and install gas.

Still … their price is too high for their home. They’ve done absolutely nothing to fix it up at all.

It still looks like it was last decorated in the 60’s or 70’s and like nothing much has been done to it since then.

If they ever do manage to sell the house I hope we get good neighbors. That’s all I ask.

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