Time For Good News!

I know I’ve been absent from blogging ever since Jasper passed away.  We needed time to grieve and decide what we were going to do.  We had two choices.  We could continue looking for a place to live, although time was running out until they closed the campground, or we could plan our future trip down south for the winter.  I decided to keep my options open and do both.

I kept my eye on the real estate market on line but we also talked about where we wanted to go down south and looked up resorts to stay at on line.  I didn’t feel very optimistic that we would be finding a place any time soon.  I found that I was looking at the same properties over and over again on line and it was getting very frustrating. 

There was one property that I kept looking at on line.  I really liked the photos that I saw on line, although we have found out in person that photos aren’t always what they seem, and the price was really low.  The only thing was, there was no garage.  That was a deal breaker in our eyes.  With the winters they have in PEI, you really need a garage for your vehicles.

One night I was talking to my sister and told her about the property.  She looked it up on line and really liked it.  She started to read the description on the property and mentioned a basement!  The listing I was looking at didn’t mention it or show any photos of it.  It turned out to be a fully finished basement!   With the price that it was offered at and the fact that it was only 4 years old … I told Ron that we could build a garage!

We went to take a look at it and I instantly fell in love with the place.  It was exactly what we were looking for.  It is a 4 year old, 2200 sq. ft. Rancher, open concept, 5 bedrooms, a sitting room off of the Master Suite with a water view, 3 full bathrooms, 3 separate sun decks all with water views, a Gazebo on the back sun deck, and 1.06 acre.  It also had a fabulous sandy beach just 5 minutes up the road.  It was perfect!

We started the negotiation process and started looking into how much it would cost to build a garage.  We were lucky enough to have the vendors agree to a quick possession date … 3 weeks!  This worked out perfectly with the closing of the campground.  Things went back and forth a few times but we were able to come to an agreement on the price.

The only condition we had was a home inspection, which is a must these days.  Ron met with the home inspector and spent 4 hours checking everything in the home.  We found a few problems that needed to be addressed.  We went back to the negotiating table and the vendors agreed to fix the serious problems and gave us a reduction on the sale of the property so we could address the remainder. 

So … the deal is done!  We now own a home in PEI.  We have an acre of land, which Ron was looking for, and we have a water view, which I was looking for.  We are having a garage built and making it large enough so Ron can have a workshop in the garage.  This is what we had envisioned for our retirement.  Our retirement dream, is coming true!



Kitchen & Dining Room

 

Back of House with Gazebo





Downstairs Family Room




Living Room




Beach 5 minutes from home




View from all 3 Sun Decks







Feeling right at home