On May the 5th, the movers arrived in Tsawwassen to pack up the extra 'stuff' so that we could stage the house and put it on the market. Mostly it would be Syd's workshop, tools and wood.
Syd had sold his business and the new owner would move all of the business assets and inventory out of the house. We were almost there.
We had interviewed 3 Realtors and were ready to list the house.
BUT things were changing in the marketplace.
BC Hydro was upgrading a transmission line that wound its way through Tsawwassen and had been strongly protested by residents along the right way. A tremendous amount of negative publicity about the power lines was generated in the press by the group Tsawwassen Residents Against Overhead Power Lines (Trahvol). This caused a lot of negative publicity about Tsawwassen .
Gas prices went up and all of a sudden, people were looking very closely about buying property where they would have to commute. The costs of commuting had almost doubled over night.
People were talking about housing prices having reached their peak... and were about to crash. I heard of many people who had sold and were waiting until 2009 to buy their next home.
I was getting nervous..... was our house going to sell in this marketplace?
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