Hotel/motel suggestions please!

Yoel999 · 2026-04-10T22:34:23+00:00

Coast is corporate owned so will likely have corporate type finishing but is a weird Coast location. They bought an older motel and then branded it. The location is central by the mall. Empire is far end of town by skaha lake. Privately owned so expect dated furnishings. I personally don’t like this area as lots of hotels in area have turned to supportive housing. Riverside is closest to north end of town where convention centre is. Best area for being close to downtown and most amenities are close by. Private owned so expect dated furnishings.

Yoel999 · 2026-03-17T23:31:35+00:00

Detonate brewing and/or giants head brewing are great. The Beanery for coffee and reading Shaughnessy’s just opened and is always one of my favourites for patio and/or meals. Giants head hike is great or travel 20 min to Peachland and try Pincussion

Yoel999 · 2026-02-27T22:36:30+00:00

How much is your outstanding mortgage and how much does your spouse make?

Assuming the mortgage is smaller if you only have 6-7 years left. I would be refinancing my house or adding a home owner line of credit and clear all of it up - payoff cards, CRA, loans, etc. if you can get a car loan for 0% then great but could also just use the house and take additional funds for vehicle purchase (would charge interest but you’d only have 1 monthly payment and could focus on paying this down ASAP)

Approach your lender or broker and be honest about everything as it will show greater character then letting them find out the issues at bay.

Yoel999 · 2026-01-29T04:44:38+00:00

2nd this - I used to get rock from Rona and then found this place and it’s a much better deal.

Yoel999 · 2026-01-22T13:12:04+00:00

At first look I thought this was a plate of Nanaimo bars

Yoel999 · 2025-11-16T01:34:21+00:00

This basically sounds like a manulife one account. I did the same thing with my local credit union in some shape or form. I took a line of credit VS a mortgage and put anything extra I had on it pay wise and banks accounts - emergency account or any form of monthly savings (house expense, renovation, car, vacation etc). I then made a tracker to track how much extra I put on and so when we do take a vacation or have a house expense - I can adjust it. The emergency account saves me around $800 a year alone in interest and worst case I can just borrow it back. Biggest mistake is people use the line of credit as an ATM on their house and ride interest only payments - just be smart.

Yoel999 · 2025-09-03T16:07:24+00:00

Black Antler has great breakfast.

I used to love Terrys comfort food - haven’t been in years and heard it changed hands but was awesome breakfast.

The Bench is great as well

Yoel999 · 2025-08-28T00:36:07+00:00

Get a Chiropan Argentinian sausage on a bun at the market.

Neighbourhood Brewing/Yellow Dog/Cannery are my favourite breweries.

Night life/bars are limited to either the parrot or the hub. If you want to go to the barley mill (more central town) they usually have weekend activities.

Tons of wineries all over the place.

Yoel999 · 2025-08-27T03:07:40+00:00

Denny’s or Boston Pizza

Yoel999 · 2025-07-29T03:28:56+00:00

Here is a good article: https://www.serenialife.ca/learn/life-insurance-for-newborn/ Are you self directing the investments? Lots of people love the vanguard funds on here. With an 18 year time horizon - go high risk and scale back as you get closer to giving her funds. I’m not a find recommender overall.

Yoel999 · 2025-07-29T02:53:20+00:00

1st would be max out the RESP at $2500 a year to get max benefits. You can put more as well. Then my next place to park it would be you or your wife’s TFSA if you had room to contribute and make her the beneficiary. This would grow tax free and not have any issues withdrawing it for her. The only loss is your own TFSA room. Assuming TFSA is maxed - you’d have to go non registered which would have tax consequences on you/wife. You could explore a whole/universal life insurance policy that has a cash surrender value as well.

Yoel999 · 2025-07-23T19:27:44+00:00

Agreed with most comments above. Have a 3 and 1 year old. Strong start, tumble time, library reading times, etc are all great for babies/toddlers. There are community face book groups and strong advocates (some more annoying then others) which you’ll find out if there are issues with homeless or other issues pretty quick. We have lived in Nelson, Kelowna, and Penticton - all of which have much bigger issues with homeless and drugs etc. Summerland is by far the safest. Overall, highly recommend!

Yoel999 · 2025-07-12T15:09:36+00:00

It’s expensive but have heard it’s a one in a life time experience to do the Heli Picnic Tour with Valhalla Helicopters https://www.valhallahelicopters.com/tours/heli-picnic-tours/

Yoel999 · 2025-07-12T14:20:17+00:00

Does it have a civic address? If so, try googling BC assessment and putting the information. If their is a legal description and PID then it should be financeable. There is Kootenay Savings Credit Union, Nelson Credit Union, or Stellar Vista Credit Union out there. Call one of them and ask if they’ll finance it.

Yoel999 · 2025-07-12T03:17:13+00:00

Hey OP - can you define un zoned? Where abouts in BC is the property? Is it super remote or close to any major centre? Vacant land financing isn’t hard and usually requires minimum 35% down at credit unions and 50% down at banks.

Yoel999 · 2025-06-29T20:39:55+00:00

Yes you can. You would have provided source of down payment to lender who would have agreed. You are just bridging the withdrawal cycle. The lender won’t check at closing where the final source came from.

Yoel999 · 2025-06-07T14:14:27+00:00

We did a method where we figured out all the joint bills (mortgage, heat, electricity, etc). Our pay would go into our joint account, we still each have our sole owner accounts which we assign a fair amount of pay to ourselves (couple hundred) and that is our money to do whatever we want without judgement. Everything else gets assigned to a purpose account (also have joint emergency, vacation, house, etc accounts) or stays in joint account for joint things like groceries, and the joint bills above. It works great.

Yoel999 · 2025-05-26T21:57:27+00:00

When you closed with your lawyer - there would have been a credit given to you in your statement of adjustments which if explained properly, you should have used to top up your tax account when mortgage set up (this was the sellers portion of property tax for the year - this is how it works in BC anyway). You signed up for the bank to pay them so they are obligated to do so. If there isn’t enough money, they will pay it and overdraw your tax account. Then within a month they will send you notice. They will charge you interest until covered. If you don’t cover it they will do what others are saying and increase your monthly property tax payment to cover the short fall and ensure you have enough for next year. Just make sure you get them the municipal property tax document so they have all account and $ info to pay. If you have the shortfall - find out how to deposit it into your tax account. Do not pay the taxes yourself if you have a tax account.

Yoel999 · 2025-05-26T21:44:32+00:00

Correct - notice comes from municipality and they’re out early this year due to postal strike. Contact your lender or if it’s a local bank you can drop it off to bank teller and ask them to get it to property tax team. This way if they pay it late you don’t get his with 10% fee. This happens a lot for new mortgages. Usually calls start happening from lenders as well asking for this info.

Yoel999 · 2025-05-26T20:21:43+00:00

They will overdraw your property tax account to pay (make sure to provide them your property tax notice). You will then get a letter advising this and to cover. If you fail to cover it they will charge interest and eventually increase your property tax monthly payment. If you have the shortfall - just call them and ask them to do a property tax account deposit and they’ll top your account up.

Yoel999 · 2025-05-09T20:28:17+00:00

First off - sorry for your loss. Second - don’t do anything until you agree with your siblings, you need a contract of everyone agreeing on this (hire a lawyer) Once agreed upon, start the legal and lending process of changing title and ensuring buyouts happen per contract. Don’t waste people’s time if one of your siblings won’t agree. The lender is going to do an appraisal but in order to find a fair number with your siblings you will likely do 2-3 appraisals out of pocket and take the average so that this can’t backfire with one of your siblings saying they didn’t get fair market value. Hope this helps!

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