I think the actual company is based in Manitoba! Just the broker is local. We just get the papers in the mail every year to pay them more money!Originally Posted by Cinder & Smoke
S/he must not *visit* to drop off the renewal paperwork, huh?
Be kinda hard not to notice a Dawg or two!
Technically from the station in town. In reality, from a volunteer station. The city station is 25km from my house; the volunteer station is 7km. Stuart is a member of the volunteer department. They are supposed to wait for the city guys to request assistance before they respond to a fire within the city limits, but I'd call them first and let the two departments whine about it after they had put the fire out!
Again, technically the city does, but the volunteer guys could get to my house much faster. The volunteer fire department is also a rescue/medical department. Having had a few situations that really needed an ambulance, I know I can drive to the hospital faster than an ambulance can get out to my house.
No, no, no and no....no municiple water service. I had to pay for water delivery before I had the well drilled. No assistance with the cost of drilling, which is available to some property owners outside of the city. The cops come out if called. They are pretty good about responding, but no routine patrols. We have a neighborhood watch program...guess who the rep is for our area. No sewer. I have a septic field. No garbage pick-up. We could get cable now I think, but we have a dish instead. They do plow the road occasionally in the winter and fill in holes in the summer.
Yes, but not from the city. That comes from the Territorial department of the environment. I never call them cuz I'm always worried they'd just kill the critter. I would call if the wild animal was injured, trapped or needed assistance somehow, but not just because Elliot(that's the moose) and his buddies are hanging around.
No, I actually pay higher taxes than alot of downtown residents. They base the taxes on your property value. My lot is bigger than a downtown lot so I end up paying more. Taxes are higher in some of the new subdivisions in town where the houses are fancy and sell for half a million!
Looking at that probably makes you wonder why we bought the place....Keep in mind that I didn't know a soul here and was here alone for the first six months while Stuart wrapped things up at our old home. When we moved up, we had three dogs. You are only allowed two in the non country residential subdivisions. Getting rid of Hoodoo was not an option, so we had to look at country res.
The AC by-law didn't apply to us at all until 2002. You could have as many dogs, cats, horse, goats, pigs ect as you wanted in our area. Those of us who already had critters, dog teams ect were grandfathered(if we pay for the permit annually) when they changed the by-law. I can't sell my house to a musher, I can't move my dogs within the city limits. Anyone who buys my house can have four dogs and four cats, six if all the neighbors agree in writing.
If I had known at the time that we would end up with this many dogs, we would have bought way out of town back then. At the time, three dogs and two cats seemed like plenty! The house we looked at way out in the boonies seemed awfully isolated and a long drive into work everyday. Now that house has tripled in value and property in dog team friendly areas is expensive and hard to come by!
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