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Anne must have crawled into bed before me, while I was on YouTube. I was in bed by 3am abd slept until about 6:30am to get up to do the icb (insulin cats breakfast) thing. After icb I went and read for about half an hour. Progress was slow. It’s not that the story is slow; it’s just that I couldn’t get into it. I crawled back into bed after that and managed to sleep until about noon.
At the moment I’m onto my first coffee trying to wake up here. Anne’s leaving out of here at 3pm for her 3:30pm shift and I’m heading out of here at 4 for my 5pm-9shift. I want to put a full week in and a few extra hours as well on top of that. Hopefully I can get 29 hours in for next week. I’d like to put in 32.5 hours in every week to help not only boost up my bank but so I can get the funds together for a security clearance. Eventually after Sept 15th (marking my 7th anniversary for Xl) is when I’d like to apply for security work. Only this time I want inside work. Ie, that body in a building type thing.
Back in the news is the housing crunch here. Developers have been buying up rental property and turning apartments into condo’s. I saw a pie slice chart poll that asked something like should the City slow down apartment/condo conversions. 79% overwhelmingly supported the halt of this apartment/conversion condo trend. It’s getting out of hand and the City can’t or won’t stop it. I’m getting a little worried about it. I mean not everyone can afford a $250 million dollar condo. That’s what these things are starting at and they are small cheap looking units as well. I mean most people with a job can afford to pay month by month for an apartment. But according to the CHMC first time homeowners can buy a home for as little as 5%. So getting a Condo for anyone working full time should be relatively easy. Next week I turn 55 and Anne is 5 years behind me. We’re tired of paying monthly rent. If we end up getting a condo then it will most likely be this year. I don’t mind paying condo fees if the amounts are relatively small. Ideally we’d like to pay about $500/month (not including heat, power cable etc.) and condo fees. Since I don’t know a lot about how to get a condo I need an education. According to Neil I need to be working full time. In that case, if I can get this security clearance and change jobs, I won’t mind working full time. I dread working full time where I am now. Still full time is only 31.5 hours/week.
The last thing I need as a writer is the air uncertainty of a stable dwelling hanging over my head. Anne and I need that stability. The thing is, with where we are now, the rent is affordable but that could change January 1st. I’ve heard stories in my office at work where peoples rent went up 30-70% increase. The province has decreed that a property manager cannot increase the rent more then once/year. We have had our rent go down by about $20 and right now we’re paying $670 for a 2 bedroom. I can almost guarantee this to go up in January or February certainly in ’08. Perhaps by as much as $300 as our complex tries to bring all units to the same price. I’d say that all 2 bedrooms here will be about $1000/month by next year it’s not like we’re getting evicted here or anything. But I’d rather be paying $500/month for rent and $300 for everything else (including ISP I might add.). If we can get away with paying $800/month for everything then great so much the better.
I need to get more information from the CHMC (Canadian Home Mortgage Corporation) and how we would qualify for a mortgage/condo. Ideally I’d like it to be somewhere around here. I want it to be where we can keep our cats and pets and the netting. Basically everything as it is now but stable. Preferably on the top floor with no noisy neighbors walking over our heads. Hopefully we can get something started on this before Anne and I are in for a rude awakening. I’d like to get the ball rolling and everything all tied up into one neat package.
At the moment I’m onto my first coffee trying to wake up here. Anne’s leaving out of here at 3pm for her 3:30pm shift and I’m heading out of here at 4 for my 5pm-9shift. I want to put a full week in and a few extra hours as well on top of that. Hopefully I can get 29 hours in for next week. I’d like to put in 32.5 hours in every week to help not only boost up my bank but so I can get the funds together for a security clearance. Eventually after Sept 15th (marking my 7th anniversary for Xl) is when I’d like to apply for security work. Only this time I want inside work. Ie, that body in a building type thing.
Back in the news is the housing crunch here. Developers have been buying up rental property and turning apartments into condo’s. I saw a pie slice chart poll that asked something like should the City slow down apartment/condo conversions. 79% overwhelmingly supported the halt of this apartment/conversion condo trend. It’s getting out of hand and the City can’t or won’t stop it. I’m getting a little worried about it. I mean not everyone can afford a $250 million dollar condo. That’s what these things are starting at and they are small cheap looking units as well. I mean most people with a job can afford to pay month by month for an apartment. But according to the CHMC first time homeowners can buy a home for as little as 5%. So getting a Condo for anyone working full time should be relatively easy. Next week I turn 55 and Anne is 5 years behind me. We’re tired of paying monthly rent. If we end up getting a condo then it will most likely be this year. I don’t mind paying condo fees if the amounts are relatively small. Ideally we’d like to pay about $500/month (not including heat, power cable etc.) and condo fees. Since I don’t know a lot about how to get a condo I need an education. According to Neil I need to be working full time. In that case, if I can get this security clearance and change jobs, I won’t mind working full time. I dread working full time where I am now. Still full time is only 31.5 hours/week.
The last thing I need as a writer is the air uncertainty of a stable dwelling hanging over my head. Anne and I need that stability. The thing is, with where we are now, the rent is affordable but that could change January 1st. I’ve heard stories in my office at work where peoples rent went up 30-70% increase. The province has decreed that a property manager cannot increase the rent more then once/year. We have had our rent go down by about $20 and right now we’re paying $670 for a 2 bedroom. I can almost guarantee this to go up in January or February certainly in ’08. Perhaps by as much as $300 as our complex tries to bring all units to the same price. I’d say that all 2 bedrooms here will be about $1000/month by next year it’s not like we’re getting evicted here or anything. But I’d rather be paying $500/month for rent and $300 for everything else (including ISP I might add.). If we can get away with paying $800/month for everything then great so much the better.
I need to get more information from the CHMC (Canadian Home Mortgage Corporation) and how we would qualify for a mortgage/condo. Ideally I’d like it to be somewhere around here. I want it to be where we can keep our cats and pets and the netting. Basically everything as it is now but stable. Preferably on the top floor with no noisy neighbors walking over our heads. Hopefully we can get something started on this before Anne and I are in for a rude awakening. I’d like to get the ball rolling and everything all tied up into one neat package.
That’s all for now
e. Jim
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