Onto the bank!
I met with Cam from A Cut Above today. They’re the local Lindal Cedar Homes dealer, based out of the old Ron’s Army Navy building in Burnside.
Cam and his business partner met me out at our lot last week. He agrees that it’s the perfect lot for a modern, environmentally designed house.
And today, he delivered. [...]
Lindal Cedar home or stay where we are?
So, here we are. We’ve exhausted the custom architect-designed route. Still waiting for that second quote, but I’ll give you the range of the first one:
$500-600,000. Yeah, it blew my mind too. Especially since we had given our max budget as $300,000. The quote was under $500k with HST, plus the $50k for our lot. [...]
In a better place today
My wife and I have been spending a ton of time over the last few days lamenting where we went wrong with this project and what we should do from here. Our conversations (ok, occasionally fights) have ranged from “let’s just sell it and get the hell out”, to “let’s look at alternatives, or maybe [...]
Reality Check.
Wow, what an eye opener this project is turning into. In total, I think we approached five builders to ask them about looking into our project. One turned us down via email before even looking at it (maybe this site scared him off? I dunno). One turned us down after spending an hour meeting with [...]