Our First House Adventure!

On July 30th we moved into an apartment here in Lethbridge. The apartment was nice! The building was not! The police showed up and told us that they were there at least once a day if not more to respond to domestic problems and that we shouldn't stay there any longer than we had to. Also, we were told before we signed the lease that it was a non-smoking building (we always ask because I have allergies). It turned out that people could smoke anywhere they wanted in the building!

So, we got out of that lease on August 3rd (the soonest we could).

We had one month to find a new place so we decided to go to the bank to find out if we could possibly get a mortgage and buy a house.

They said yes!

We started looking at houses in Stirling, Alberta (since we LOVE it here!) but quickly realized that there was nothing in our price range.

By 'nothing' I mean this is the best we can afford in Stirling:

We didn't like the idea of our first house being a trailer that needed work. So we looked at our other options.

- buy a condo in Lethbridge?

- buy land in Stirling and put a pre-built home on it?

- buy a small house in Ontario?

- buy a house in Nova Scotia?

We carefully researched all of our options and finally decided that the best one was buying a house in Nova Scotia where we could easily afford something like this...

or this...

(by the way, both of those Nova Scotian houses are cheaper than the trailer in Alberta)

We are currently packing all of our stuff and we will be leaving for Nova Scotia sometime this week.

We are VERY excited to look at houses and pick out the one that will be our first home!! :)

We will miss our Alberta people, but we look forward to lots of visitors!