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The first step in our moving plan costs $83.96 per month
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The Toronto Star- We’re taking the first steps to fix up our condo and move into a house by renting a storage locker that is five by ten feet and costs $84 a month.
We’ve moved some things into it (mostly old clothes that I need to sort, chairs from a dining table we’re not using, and old toys) and our place feels better already.
We still have a lot to do – more de-cluttering, cleaning and painting – before we can even think about finding an agent. It will probably still take us a couple of months.
If we’re into the fall or early winter, then the question becomes, do we just wait until the spring? What the housing market will do in that time seems to be anybody’s guess.
There are different forecasts about whether it will remain strong, or suffer a correction.
Since I first wrote about dithering on buying a house, the economic outlook has changed dramatically.
The U.S. economy isn’t growing as quickly as hoped, and the problems with European debt are threatening to spread.
Economists had been expecting the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates in the fall. But now it looks like that probably won’t happen until next year. I think that’s probably a point in favour of the housing market.
Of course, if the economy takes a turn for the worst, as some fear it might, that won’t be good for consumer spending or the housing market.
That’s why I’ve resigned myself to going at our own pace.
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