I’m not sure why I didn’t note it here, but after finally getting rid of the terrible downstairs tenants here, our landlords have decided to “take advantage of the market” (and, I’m guessing, the fact that they now live in Dallas) and are putting our current house up for sale in April. This meant that Mel and I had to start looking around for a new place to live. We live in the main area of this house so surely anyone who buys it would want to move in.
Over the past month and a half we’ve looked at a lot of homes. With both of us being packrats, and me working from home a small apartment wouldn’t work. Plus we’ve got Loki. So we’ve been looking at houses. Some are crazy expensive, some are nice but just too small. Others were big but quite obviously ex grow-op houses that haven’t had the crappy moldy basement fully cleaned out yet.
Mel found a listing on Craigslist for a house for $2200/month (WAY out of our price range), but it noted that price was for the full house which included a big 2 bedroom suite downstairs, and that they could rent the upstairs for $1400 and downstairs for $1000, but would prefer to rent the whole thing. We took a look at it and loved it. It’s smaller than here, but two blocks north of skytrain. The landlords seemed really nice — a young professional couple — and they seemed to like us as well, but stressed “it would be in your best interest to find someone to take the downstairs suite with you”.
So we started calling around. My first thought was Mel’s brother Alex, who lives in Vancouver and is in the Army Reserves, as well as doing extra work on TV shows. When I phoned him he told me that he had actually tried calling (my old cell #) a few weeks before wondering if the suite where we were was available!
Long story made a bit short, Alex will be taking the suite, we get the upstairs, and we signed the papers today. We can start moving our stuff in on Sunday which is great — we’ve got a lot to move — but we officially take residence on March 1st.
Our new address:
Joe & Melany Fulgham
5710 Pioneer Ave.
Burnaby, BC
V5H 2X6
If you look at it on Google Maps you’ll see that we’re only a couple of blocks north of Metrotown, which is where the Skytrain station is. This should make for Vancouver people visiting us a lot easier and vice-versa.
Strong friends: We’ll be needing some help for the move! I’ll probably rent a truck for the weekend of Feb 24-25. Pizza and beer provided, of course!
I am not strong, nor do I want beer, but I will most likely be available to help you move on the 24th, 25th, or both.
There will also be diet soda and probably other food choices as well! We haven’t actually had pizza in ages. It’d be bad to break that streak, but it’s just typical “feed the movers” food.
I work on that weekend, but will be in Vancouver helping my brother move on Wednesday. However, he’s got a moving company doing most of it, so I could have some time if you have any leftover stuff to do.
And you need to call me about the Vancouver Kotei…please.