Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, Holiday Home Required

Celtic

Hi,

I am looking to purchase at the end of this year a holiday home in Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Nothing fancy, a mobile home or float boat / houseboat, no matter how small, or a cabin for minimal money i.e. upto Canadian $40,000. To be about 10-20 miles of local amenities and/or on edge of village, for use for 6 months of the year, better still if kayaking, canoeing, hill walking opportunities are very close by, i.e. with 5 miles or so of coast, inlets obviously ok, towards south of island preferred.

I found one up in Port Alice but could do with a few more options, if you know of any or find any, even a acre or so of land on which to build ecology home / cabin upon, I would be interested.

Please let me know either here, through a pm or my email at [email protected] thats, The Garden Artists btw, my business name.

Many thanks

Mark

shotgun

Well suck me dry and call me dusty...Celtic that would be fantastic

Let me know if you want help finding potential spots. The economy is pretty depressed in the Coastal towns on Van Island due to a failing forest industry so there are alot of good deals to be had.

Here is a link you might try.

http://www.mls.ca/map.aspx?AreaID=245

Good luck and I look forward to giving you a hand in any Celtic building projects.

Celtic

Wow really, thank you so much Shotgun, really do appreciate that. To be honest I thought it was a long shot posting this thread here, wow, such a quick reply.

Of course, you have the Yanks to thank you for your failing forestry industry, hmmmmmm.

Kindest regards to you!!

Mark

Celtic

Btw Cowichan looks beautiful, just my kind of place, I would be so happy if I could find a place there.

Sassy

Lets keep getting more apostates up that direction..

Then we can have an apostafest up there!! I love that area!!

Hope you find what you are looking for Cel

orbison11

ok will look around here, any more specifics, send them on over, will get back to you after work today

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Celtic

Just found one, from that site Shotgun. Almost a laughable price of just over £3,450 quid, 3 bedroom mobile fixer upper, I've already contacted the realtor agent to enquire further. Good thing is too, flights from London UK to Vancouver are only £329 return. The property is on the West Coast towards the south in Port Alberni.

Rights thats it, I'm off!!

See you later in my kayak.

One happy Celt.

Celtic

Darn darn and double darn again, the above property has sold, I just rang up the agent to see if it was still available, blow it.

Celtic sighs and hopes something similar comes up again very soon.

CeriseRose

I don't know what you intend for the other 6 months of the year when you're -not- using it, but if you look in the Ucluelet/Tofino area (west coast) it's a HUGE vacation spot, and rentals are year round. Pricier than other areas, but it's a booming area for whale watching, surfing and the like. And it's beautiful (it's my favorite vacation spot in Canada). :)

Just thought if you were to use it half the time, you could rent it the other half...using a person out here as a 'property manager', and possibly taking bookings online. :) People out there make LOTS.

My 2 cents. :D

Celtic

Aye cheers Cerise. This thought of renting out for the other half of the year has already crossed my mind. My mate from here, Ian is setting up a business here in the same field, whale watching etc along with Larry who is opening another branch of the business in the Bahamas. This is one of the reasons we would like to go there.

Of the other 6 months, either come back here to the UK and further the business interests which presently I am in, in garden and ecological landscape design, or perhaps go to France or Spain to carry on doing the same. Here I run my own business called The Garden Artists, our motto: 'Putting the Culture in Horticulture'.

Actually, tonight I'm really pleased because I just picked up a rather good contract which is going to keep 2-3 of us going for the next 3-4 weeks, after we have finished, this garden will look quite spectacular, really looking forward to doing it. Just need another 5 jobs now of similar timescale to see me very well through the summer.

Kindest regards to you.

Mark

Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, Holiday Home Required

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