Today I discovered there are actually houses in my neighborhood that Erik and I could afford to buy. By us, of course I mean Erik, cuz I have no job. And by afford, I mean, we could pay twice what we are paying now. This would be a stretch even if we ditched my favorite distractions - cable television, our cell phones, the internets, Netflix, Thai Boat, take out of any sort...
Anyway, here is a list of my observations on the houses in our price range, in the order we saw them:
- Sold
- Built for hobbits, strange slanted room, no bathroom?, big yard
- Dump, deck collapsing, next to Coyote hill
- Orange, no carpet, cracked cement floor, good windows, decent yard, nice layout
- Tiny, built-in barking neighbor dogs, stained wood floors, disturbing light fixtures, broken window, nice jasmine plant
- Connecty, weird layout - even for a duplex, vacant lot next door, fence falling over
- Unsafe / condemned
We're going to look inside #4 tomorrow and we are actually sad to hear that #5 is already in escrow. #1 was the real blow. Erik had his eye on that house ages ago - before we were real grown ups who get a bank to loan us $300,000.
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#2. Is it possible that Hobbits don't need a bathroom because they have the big yard?
The first grown up house Jim and I looked to buy cost $21,000. At the time we had sticker shock. Being grown up has gotten a lot more expensive.
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