After being on the market since this past winter, the Pickering house is finally sold. It was an overall loss but I am glad it is no longer our responsibility. We spent so much time and effort last year cleaning up the house and fixing it as best as we could with the limited budget we had to spend on it. Thrawn helped with mowing the front and back yards. I am allergic to grass, especially the strong grass smell that lingers after one mows the lawn, so I usually get away with not having to mow anything :)Lunato and I painted the front door, entrance hallway, living room, the stairway leading to the basement, and the corridor connecting the three bedrooms and washroom. The washroom was absoluetly disgusting. We shouldn’t have rented the place to three male college students. I hate all of them and I hope they burn in Hell. We vaccumed the house, cleaned the carpet, cleaned all the appliances, and finally cleaned out the garage. The garbage in the garage alone rquired more than a dozen big garbage bags. Ugh.
The backyard of the house is huge and it has a few pear trees as well. Lunato was ecstatic when she first saw them and we cut a few pears and ate them. Delicious. The actual value of the house is really in the backyard but the city of Pickering has some sort of lein on the backyard of the property because they are going to build a road to connect this plot with the other three plots south of this one. The city will also hook up all four houses with a sewer line and only then will the value of this property jump and only then will the property actually be profitable. However, those plans are still just plans and the city is in no hurry to implement them. I can’t afford to keep the house until then and I am sick of horrible tenants so the best solution was to just sell it and walk away.
Lunato had to give her consent to the sale. As my spouse, I have to legally get her permission before I can sell any of my properties. She was so happy and demanded numerous favours before going to the lawyer’s office to sign the documents which essentially said: “I give consent to my spouse, Sikander, to sell the property located at ABC for XYZ amount of dollars.” What the… no one told me about this when I signed on the marraige license. What other suprises are there?
After multiple offers, multiple interested parties, and an unsuccessful closing date of 27th of April (which caused a lot of other problems… and I also had to get Lunato’s permission again for the 2nd Offer of Sale), the house is finally no longer my headache. The last name of the new owner? “Crooks”. Hah!
