House Hunting Part One

Well, we're here, and getting ready to make an offer! We saw three
apartment-style condos (i.e. highrise units), and really only 1.5 of
them were nice. We're hopefully going back in a few minutes to see the
best one again, and make an offer. Tentative plans have us closing
(and therefore *owning*) on August 26th. w00t!

Scary. Don't know if the owners are in town this long weekend, so
there might be a delay there. Plus, we don't even know if there's
another offer that we're competing against!! ARGH.

We both forgot to bring our cheque books. Hard to buy a house using
Interac, apparently.

Looks like we'll know our status on this within a day anyway, though
nothing 100% yet. Looks like Vinny's dream of Canada's Wonderland on
Sunday might actually happen!

Further bulletins as events warrant.

Addition

I forgot to mention that we're still at the realtor's office, waiting
for her to come back. This place is insane -- three floors,
WalMart-size, of nothing but real estate. Very comfy and inviting, but
still I'd rather be back at the hotel or at Canada's Wonderland or
something.

They have computer kiosks set up for people to use their website to
surf properties for sale, and they're set up so that the Start button
and toolbars are missing, so (in theory) people can only stay inside
what looks like a custom program, and not get out into the real world.

I'll leave you to do the math on how successful their security provisions are.