Over the past few years we've been sharing our endeavour to purchase, tune-up, renovate, add-on and operate (remotely from Toronto, Ontario) a vintage triplex in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island – which we call The Tales Of Upper Hillsborough. Since our purchase back in 2008 our second floor suite has been home…

Ok, so my apologies in advance cuz I’m going to prattle on today about my love affair. Yes, it’s our four-year anniversary since we began tackling tuning-up, renovating, expanding and decorating – remotely from Toronto, Ontario – a vintage triplex in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island – which we bought in…

As James and I tackle completing our Captain’s Quarters in The Black House, in Charlottetown, PEI, we’re sleuthing online for innovative ideas to incorporate into this suite’s bijou living/dining room, which is located in one of this 1880’s shingle manse’s second floor original bedrooms.     Unfortunately we don’t have…

Over the past three years we've been sharing our endeavour to purchase, tune-up, renovate, add-on and operate (remotely from Toronto, Ontario) a vintage triplex in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island – which we call The Tales Of Upper Hillsborough.     It started serendipitously when, back in 2008, James Ormston and I…

The photo above shows the profile of the vintage house on Upper Hillsborough in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island which I co-own with my pal and associate James. He found this photo in the Charlottetown archives. Dating from the turn of the century, James and I wonder if those two cavorting boys might be…

In our last instalment I revealed the process by which my friend James (now a fab fellow associate here at urbaneer.com Bosley) and I searched, identified and purchased the right income property for us in idyllic Charlottetown. In this post, James and I want to share our recommendations on what to do when you…