Today we saw Gorgeous Kitchen and Smells Like Bacon.
Both places were nice, but Smells Like Bacon wasn’t laid out very well and we will pass. Gorgeous Kitchen is very, very nice but Ed wants to see it again before we decide if we’re going to put in an offer. In my head, we’ve already offered – but there were a LOT of people there, and I’m not holding out hope that we’ll actually get the place. We’ll go see it again tomorrow, and another place on the North Shore that I’m curious about. I need to stop thinking about the place we didn’t get, because it’s just discouraging me and nothing else is coming close to that level of perfection.
My brain hurts.
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Is it possible to have the vendor discharge the lien, either by settling with the contractor or doing court-ish things? (Clearly I’m not a lawyer, but… if it’s worth waiting for…?)
The lien isn’t the issue – the unit’s share was $1100 and taken care of – it was the fact that the building was only partially rainscreened and therefore not under warranty. They did an assessment and the engineers said a partial would repair all issues and be around 1M less, so that’s what they did .. and now the CMHC won’t finance any mortgages because of it, paperwork or not.
Oh, man. That’s totally crappy… so now anybody who has less than 20% down won’t be able to purchase any unit at all. Laaaame.