This is not our house...
As you all know if you've been reading, frances and I are in the midst of looking for a place for us. And it's frustrating.
Case in point: two weeks ago, I took a Friday off to go house hunting for us. I had a list of six potential places that I had called the day or two before to try and see. One told me that the place was no longer available, and seemed irritated that I had called. One other called me back to tell me (nicely at least, this one) that that place was also taken. And the others just plain never returned my calls. So I spent the day playing poker. Won us a nice security deposit, but i digress...
The place above is the latest one not to cut it for us. It's at the top end of our price range, to the extent that i nearly didn't consider it, but thought "well... if it's really awesome, maybe we'll make it work."
It was NOT really awesome.
Dingy inside and out, flaking paint, water damage, cheap-o linoleum... on the bright side, i guess it was big enough. But it would not have been the place for us even $200/mo cheaper. It was that bad.
The list of places to be seen is currently at two. I wish there were more. I wish people would answer their phones. I wish the perfect house would fall out of the sky and land gently right where we want it.
It just takes one. That's what I keep telling myself...
-d.
3 comments:
Keep looking. People tend to sell houses in the spring more than other seasons.
I know your frustrations! Have you tried padmapper.com? That was actually how I found the listing for the place we ended up renting, it had gone up a little earlier than I had flipped back through in listings.
@Lilly: no, I haven't! Thanks so much, I'll check it out...
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