Jesus sure knows a lot about buying a house for a guy who seemed to spend all of his time wandering around and crashing on other people's couches.

I can't even begin to comprehend what you're talking about.

Jesus deleted his post.

Much like the Old Testament.

It was his early years. We don't bring up the work of the Quarrymen, we should leave it lie.

Yea, for the slave given fifty talents multiplied them into a hundred talents, and the slave given twenty talents multiplied them into forty talents, and the man who was given ten talents buried them, and was righteously scolded by his master, yea until he was the only one with anything left after the talent crash of 0006.

Is it just me who read this and immediately thought "Build a room-sized battery that can be charged when it's cheap and run everything on that the rest of the day"?

And yes that's the only advice I have. :I

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My dream house is 3 stories on a 4 acre lot, fenced in with a gate at each corner, with a 2 tiers of in ground pools, one that spills into the other, with a grotto/hot tub. It features a series of waterslides that come down from each of the 8 bedrooms from the upstairs.

The dream house is primarily constructed of soundproofing materials for privacy and enjoyment of hobbies. A rec room is large enough to play ball hockey in, and features a 10 foot ceiling.

The property would ideally be situated on the outside of town, just at the far edge of public transit.

I'm gonna cut myself off there- my dream house is an unrealistic one. <3 This house has a Jacuzzi tub, and is on a lot large enough that if I really wanted to, and the money came to me, I COULD install a pool or larger.

It's got the stuff I need, which is most important.

Oh man, you have no idea. My grandfather's worse then me for talking out his ass like he knows what he's doing. I'm bringing him along because he'll be critical of every little fault he can find; I'm bringing the property inspector along to do the actual job of saying "Oh hey, look, a secret room filled with garbage!"

Also, contemplating setting up Solar Cells on the roof to sell back to the hydro company- Electricity costs are highest in the daytime in Toronto, and the buyback rate is fairly high. It may help offset, but I'd need to price out the hardware and installation, and I'm willing to wager the startup costs would be too lethal to make it happen.

From what a prof at school told us Solar Cells may not be worth it, from the maintenance cost alone they never paid off for a large corporation he knew of because there wasn't enough consistent sun.

But that's anecdotal and second (possibly third) hand at that. I'd say just make sure you look into the cost and benefits very thoroughly before you invest in it; that includes start up cost, maintenance, good yearly estimates on how much power they'd generate on average (since it needs a sunny day and all), and any tax breaks you might get for green energy.