Recap: Nickel Brothers is a company that buys houses from people who are redeveloping their property. They save houses from being...

With just a little over two weeks to go before the " new used house " is delivered to the Grove, we're continuing to work on preparing the lot to make room for it. The amount of work and planning to make this happen in such a short time frame is dizzying. It feels like we're juggling hundreds of balls (or flaming torches?) at the same time, with all of them hovering over our heads, not knowing which one we'll catch, and which one we'll drop. While trying to line up all the tr

Sometimes, being flexible is important. Maybe it's important all the time, actually. For those who have followed our Mayne Island...

We're learning a lot about designing and building a home. As discussed in the Finding a Builder blog, some builders provide a suite of...

Researching and evaluating home builders could be a full-time job. The options are endless. There are small builders, big builders,...

We're so happy we found this lot... Thankfully, the offers we made on other properties fell through, or we walked away after the home...

We've been looking at lots and cabins on the Gulf Islands for a long time - probably more than 15 years. We tried and experienced several Islands before focusing on one of them. We overnighted on Pender, Salt Spring, Saturna, Galiano, Gabriola, Hornby and Cortez Islands. We looked at dozens of properties and made offers on four of them in total. First attempt... One was a timeshare on Pender Island. Thankfully, someone made an offer with no conditions and we lost out on it (p

We took possession of The Grove February 14, 2021. As luck would have it, a thick carpet of snow fell the night before, but that wasn't...