Last weekend, we looked at like 10-12 houses out in Durham region for ourselves and there were a few that we liked.  We bid on one in the morning, lost that and decided to bid on another in the afternoon and well we won!

This house is located in North East Oshawa so it’s close to some of our other properties, the current owners are environmentalists and I absolutely love what they’ve done with the house.  First there’s a 9.52MW roof top solar installation, in comparison the one on my house is rated at 5.8MW as well as a heat pump heating & cooling system!  They are a lot more efficient than traditional AC or furnaces, I don’t know what type it is yet but i’m going over on Thursday and will find out.

Maggie & Brandon love swimming so we’ll get some good use out of that, the house is double the size of our current home (though that’s not a huge deal, there are only 3 of us) and an important feature for me, it has a double car garage.  I can’t wait to be able to store both my cars in a garage and not have to worry about theft…  The house closes on June 30th so we get a good amount of time, important because we haven’t sold our home yet.  There are still a few things that need to be done and I suspect we’ll list it in about a month’s time.

Sigh moving sucks, Brandon is really upset about it because he’ll lose his friends but this makes too much sense financially for us so we pulled the trigger on it.