Repatriate Me!

Today I talked with my wife about a scouting trip to Ottawa this coming summer and she says it’s a good idea. So last week of June or first week of July I’ll be heading to Ottawa for 7-10 days, probably 10 days. For financial reasons, I’ll be traveling alone, plus it will be easier than taking two jet lagged kids all over the place. They’d probably be bored to tears.

On this trip, I’m planning on scouting out various neighborhoods, schools, and housing markets. Of course I will be doing a lot of this online before I arrive, but online versus in person is completely different. I’ll also be able to talk to banks about what my chances for a mortgage are. Other things to do include checking out Korea town, the Ottawa chamber of commerce, learning more about registering my business. Most importantly I will be able to talk to a real estate agent in person, before shifting everything back to online communication. I’d really like to be able to have a line on a house just before or just after we plan on landing in Ottawa and securing a good real estate agent will be key to that.

I am also hoping to meet people in Ottawa that I have connected with online via this blog, message boards and twitter.

I’m sure there are several other things that I will need to do, but can’t think of right now. When I originally decided to return to Canada, I gave myself three years to get ready. It feels like I made that decision just last week, yet there is only 1 year, 7 months and 17days left. Time is flying.

In unrelated news I changed the header image – I think this is a big improvement over the one that came with the template I was using. I’m no designer, but I like it.

Nov 15, 2009 Comments(2) Tweet

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