Tuesday, December 14, 2004

There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays...

...unless, of course, you rent from a bitter, ancient, very ill old woman who is literally facing certain death soon and you can't get anything fixed in your "home" and are scrubbing mold off a wall due to a slow leak in your water heater.

But then...

I wonder if fate is thinking of throwing me just a little bone? I just checked and lo and behold, a home just went on sale in the exact neighborhood we want to buy in for about $100,000 less than we expected it to sell for.

Now this I could afford!

EH doesn't even know yet...he should be here any moment and I am going to take him to see it - at least from the outside. To at least see if it's what we're looking for.

In our neck of the woods, housing prices have skyrocketed. I should know. I'm in the business. There is a part of town we affectionately call "Crack Town" and you would never drive through it after dark unless you were armed...the $60k and $70k crack dens in that area have just started selling for $300k and up because they are going to clean up the area someday soon. $300k for a house that probably has bullet holes in the wall and 7 broken cars in the yard and a leaking roof. So, finding your first home is just a bit of a challenge.

We want a quiet, safe neighborhood where SG can play outside. But we also want a home that needs a little TLC. We watch way too much Monster House. Last night, EH was trying to sell me on the idea of a giant movie reel coffee table that would spin around slowly...

We both want a home so very badly. Our lease ends next month and we don't know if our landlady will even live that long.

Posted by Red :: 5:44 PM :: | ---------------------------------------