Originally Posted by Oink (Post 9840667)

Has anyone else noticed how ugly the houses are here. They're all garage with a few rooms stuck on top and at the back. I realize they want them to blend in with the scenery but ffs couldn't they make a little less horrible to look at?

Originally Posted by caretaker (Post 9841336)

People buy Ontario vehicles cheap, bring them to Saskatchewan then try to get them safetied and sell them or sell them needing the safety cert.. Ontario has more sleet and freezing rain than anywhere else in Canada and so uses way more road salt. The result is the vehicles rust out faster so at 10 years the rocker panels are rusting out and depending which province you're in holes in the body are enough for the law to condemn your car if you get snared in a safety check. My sister in Ont. who worked for Chrysler thought it was silly of me to buy a 2000 van with 317 thou k. She said cars just don't last that long, but nearly 3 years later next oil change is due @ 380 thou but the little brown dots I saw on the rocker panels then are holes now. Even though I could drive it across the country metal fatigue will eventually kill it. Buying used means looking at the glass, tires, body, power train and a few use indicators. Look at how much rubber is gone off the brake pedal; that can say how much is highway and how much is city mileage. See if the paint on the firewall and inside the doors matches the body and see how the doors and trunk fit. It might of been hit before the seller bought it and he may not even know. A 2000 half ton goes for around $5000 so if something looks too good to be true look it over extra carefully. New truck prices have gone down but the ads are misleading. The $21,000 truck might cost 6 grand more by the time you buy a few extras and pay tax and delivery. My friend bought a bare bones 1/4 ton Ranger for $15k 2 years ago and it cost 20 even without extras. I still can't understand it..... 2wd and no power anything. He could of got one for the same price loaded to the nuts with 4wd if he'd bought a 3 year old one with 50,000 k on it.

Originally Posted by magnumpi (Post 9841832)

We looked at a few houses with garage in the house, rooms on top, but the inside of the house was so much smaller.

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 9841864)

And the room over garage is always cold and usually full of poisonous fumes. An in-law suite, perhaps.

Originally Posted by Kirsty John and Dominic (Post 9842763)

Also they are gas trucks look at the same year truck in diesel and they will be alot more.