Thanks to everyone who commented! This has been a long time coming, and with things going the way that they are now it made sense to start looking at a house we could live in and be really happy with for a long, long time. I am pretty sure this will be our house to retire into, but we'll see. The deal doesn't close until we get a positive house inspection. That happens tomorrow afternoon. If that goes well, we take possession June 1st. If not, then it's back to the drawing board. House prices have shot up here and believe it or not, this is actually inexpensive compared to some of the others we were looking at. And this is frikken' WINNIPEG!!