Rant
My nose is trying to swell shut in an effort to kill me. Or it’s allergy season. OR, it’s the new #($*&#$ upstairs neighbors who SMOKE IN THEIR APARTMENT, so my apartment smells like an ashtray as well.
Who smokes inside? That’s nasty. It makes everything you own reek and eventually turn yellow.
Moreover, it annoys me to no end that my kids have to smell the smoke. I’m not exaggerating – it’s really strong.
Time for a new place. Say a prayer we can find one soon.
Real estate update
Well, it’s been a long last couple of weeks.
We kicked the original real estate agent and mortgage broker to the curb, found new ones, and made another offer on that same house that we were looking at. However, there was another offer and they decided to go with that one.
Jay and I were driving around in that same neighborhood (that the house we ‘lost’ is in) looking at other homes. When we passed the home we’d made an offer on, the owners were standing outside. I refrained from leaning out and saying “TBBBPTHBPH!”
Aren’t you proud?
Anyway, we are going to take a break for a little while, I think. In reality, we should wait until we find out whether – and where – Jay’s going to get a teaching job before we move. It’s hard to cool your heels when you’ve got 4 people living in a small 2-bedroom apartment, but I know we should wait a little longer.
Lessons learned – a first-time homebuyer’s plight
We are in the process of trying to buy our first home. We came into this process rather un-prepared – that is, without an abundance of knowledge on the subject or the process. Not to mention we only have $900 in our savings account. And the cherry on top: I just started working as an independent contractor for a web design company a month-and-a-half ago.
But, we’ve heard so many of our friends tell us stories about getting into homes for only $500 out of their own pocket - or some other ridiculously low figure – we thought maybe we could, too. And we’re tired of flushing all our money down the toilet by paying the better part of $10K a year in rent.
So, we decided to make a go of it and see what happened. Read the rest of this entry »
