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The clean out begins

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My neighbors are serious. If the tapping and repairs going on weren’t enough of a message that they mean to sell their home successfully the pile of discarded items outside there house should be enough to convince me.

I just looked outside and they’ve been cleaning out their home. There’s old rolled up carpeting, a few blinds, what looks like a painting or a photo frame, an old couch and a few bags of garbage.

Gee I hope they’re going to cart that stuff to the dump on their own because this past Tuesday was Garbage day and garbage is only picked up twice a month in our area of Toronto. They’d better not be planning on leaving that pile on the boulevard grass for the next week and a half.

Oh now a wooden chair has joined the pile. Hmmm if anyone needs some used furniture I might have a deal for you.





They’re going to sell!

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Yesterday I awoke to the sound of tapping on my bedroom wall.

It was the neighbors.

As the day passed I don’t think there was a wall adjoining our house that was tapped,banged or hammered.

What on earth were the neighbors doing?

Chris happened to see our neighbor outside when he walked to the corner store in the early evening and he found out that they’d spent the day doing minor repairs to their home. We’d already figured as much, but it was nice to confirm the source of all the tap tap tapping.

Their real estate agent had given them a list of suggestions for repairs.

So yeeaaaaahhhhh it looks like the neighbors will soon be putting their house up on the market!

I’m not surprised that they had at least some minor repairs to do. Since they moved in five and half years ago they’d never done a thing to the house and I think it was badly in need of repairs. I’m sure there’s more that they haven’t got to yet and might not do.

Believe it or not the constant tapping throughout the day was no where near as irritating as the loud guitar, tuba or karaoke that we’re subject to from time to time. In fact the tapping didn’t even really bother me at all. Perhaps that’s just because I knew it might mean that our Karaoke neighbors would soon be moving on.

Where would you live?

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Are you in the home that you plan on living in for the majority of your life or do you think you’ll move a few times before you settle into a home for a long period of time?

When we first got this house I thought we’d be here for a long time, but with all that we’ve gone through with our neighbors I know that I want to move at some point and when we buy a new house it will not be semi detached. I’m sorry, but I’m not interested in hearing what my neighbors are up to.

Actually just the other day I was thinking about how I’ve been making a fairly good living via the internet. If I keep this up and continue to make enough to pay the bills well … I could live just about anywhere. I could buy a home in Europe or move to Australia, or I could get a home in the mountains in British Columbia or I could check out Wilmington NC real estate and live by the sea, or I could move to a Caribbean island.

You see what I mean? I could live just about anywhere as long as I had internet access.

Where would you live if you could live anywhere?

Chaos in the office!

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I was just speaking to my brother. The one that lives here in the Toronto area. He’s one of the senior employees at his workplace and they are renovating and revamping the whole office and their computer systems and software. By this I mean everything from new computer systems to the financial consolidation software they use, to the chairs they sit in.

Unfortunately for my brother, instead of closing down the office for a few days or moving the employees to an area that’s already been finished or that hasn’t been worked on they are trying to make them work in among the chaos.

He’s not able to get anything done so he decided to call me and see how things were going over here. We’re going to be having our big family reunion at the end of the month too so he wanted to square up a few details.

Poor guy. What else is he going to get done at work today – nothing! Hopefully they finish up his office over the weekend.

Will they be successful in September?

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I was just thinking about how our neighbors are going to try to sell their house in September. I don’t know why they didn’t try to sell in June or July. I’m pretty sure the real estate would have been better at that time of year.

I mean if your house looks nice and if your yard has some plants in good condition it should be easier to sell right? Besides, aren’t people with kids looking for houses at the end of the school year so that they can get settled before their child’s new school year starts?

September … yeah I can see houses selling in September but it’s probably less likely that a family with school aged children would buy at that time of year … well unless the parents were moving to the city for a job or something.

Actually maybe this works in our favor. Since we can hear our neighbors much too well it might be good if people who don’t have children buy the house next door. Believe me – we call our neighbors child, a 13 year old boy who’s on the heavy side two tons of fun! No we aren’t really picking on him because he’s a little overweight … it’s just because he’s so loud! He bangs up and down the stairs and when he was younger I swear he used to jump up and down on the couch. Bang, bAng, BaNg! So noisy!

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