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Permit Plans

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Just in case anyone is interested in seeing the kinds of plans the City needs to see in order to get a building permit, here they are (it took me about 3 days of solid work to understand the requirements, survey the property and use CorelDraw to create the plans):

Permit Combined – Upload a Document to [...]

Why People Don’t Get City Permits

Friday, October 17th, 2008

A question that I keep getting asked is will I be getting a permit for Job XYZ.  I always thought that was odd.  Why wouldn’t I get a permit?
Well, now I know. 
I applied to City Hall a few weeks back for a building permit to replace my badly weather damaged carport roof.  Today I got [...]

Selling Our Gastown Condo

Friday, October 10th, 2008

We had the world’s greatest tenant in our Gastown condo for the past year and a half.  But now she’s moving on.  So we were faced with the decision to rent it again or sell it.  After a lot talking, we decided that it would be better to sell it.  We don’t really have the time [...]

Let’s get this party started

Monday, August 11th, 2008

I’ve been trying to get this party started for a very long time now. The story is simply that we felt a bit cramped in our edge-of-downtown concrete condo, and started looking around for something a little bigger and a little closer to the centre.
We ended up finding a house a bit further away from [...]