House Hunting Update
Dec. 18th, 2006 05:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Okay, so just to keep track:
*Fell in love with stucco house in East Point
*Scott, Jon, and David all say it's not the house
*My dad comes down, looks at it, says house needs $40,000 in repairs to be livable, not counting the fence I wanted to replace
*Make self fall out of love with stucco house in East Point
*Look frantically for house while parents are in town, and can tell me when prospective homes are missing things like, oh, say, an air conditioner.
*Find charming brick home. Parental approval granted. I like outside, like inside. Not sure about neighborhood.
*Spend weekend researching neighborhood - decide it is a good place, slowly start letting self fall in love with charming brick home.
*Today, realtor calls - home sold on Saturday.
This is wearing me out.
*Fell in love with stucco house in East Point
*Scott, Jon, and David all say it's not the house
*My dad comes down, looks at it, says house needs $40,000 in repairs to be livable, not counting the fence I wanted to replace
*Make self fall out of love with stucco house in East Point
*Look frantically for house while parents are in town, and can tell me when prospective homes are missing things like, oh, say, an air conditioner.
*Find charming brick home. Parental approval granted. I like outside, like inside. Not sure about neighborhood.
*Spend weekend researching neighborhood - decide it is a good place, slowly start letting self fall in love with charming brick home.
*Today, realtor calls - home sold on Saturday.
This is wearing me out.
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Date: 2006-12-19 12:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-19 03:44 am (UTC)hugs
Date: 2006-12-19 12:15 am (UTC)The house probably already had an offer put in on it before you could do anything.
If it didn't.... you'd find yourself in the position I was in when I bought this house... where 3 people wanted the house, so I actually paid *more* than the asking price.
Every time in my life that something has truly sucked ass, like not going to the school that I wanted, not getting published, not getting promoted, not going on an important trip, not getting the job that I wanted, not having the harmonious relationship with a partner, etc. etc. -
Something better has always come along. Without fail. Life just works that way. It all works out.
This, of course, coming from someone who consistantly has a broken, leaking, defective half-empty glass.
Re: hugs
Date: 2006-12-19 03:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-19 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-19 03:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-19 05:54 pm (UTC)*hugs* You'll find the right one, honey. Just know that it's out there. And yeah, I think your judgement was solid--there was no way you could have known it was already in the process of being sold. This housing market is *supposed* to have slowed down now, so you should be able to have time and research a house.
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Date: 2006-12-19 09:37 pm (UTC)And yeah, the market's supposed to be slowing down... I think I just got hit in that "let's buy a house before Dec 31 for tax purposes" rush. :( It'd been on the market for 2 months, so I didn't think it'd be a problem. Oh, well, it must not have been meant to be my house, I guess.