Well, Shawn and I have exciting news. We have just officially bought our first home in Vancouver. We are so happy! It is in East Vancouver in the Mt. Pleasant area. It has two basement suites which we will be renting out as mortage helpers, and three bedrooms upstairs. It is much larger then our current place, and has a large deck and backyard. Hopefully all our family and friends can come visit us soon! We will officially be moving in mid July, although we have our current place until August 1st, so it gives us some time to paint and prepare our new home. We have been house shopping for a while, but it is difficult to find something in a nice area that is affordable (or relatively affordable). The house does need some work, new paint, eventually a new kitchen, and updating of the bathrooms. They previous owners also had a very ugly addition put onto the back porch which will have to be torn down, but that is an eventual plan, for now it is livable and I think we will be very happy there!
We had thought about purchasing outside of Vancouver and doing the daily commute, but in the end it made the most sense to try and get into the Vancouver market. With having one more year of school to go for me, and Shawn needing to get downtown early this is a great location. I am steps to a direct bus line to UBC and closer to downtown then we are right now in Kerrisdale.
Here is a picture of our new place!
Congratulations on your new home! Looks really nice.