A Tale of Three or Four Houses
--My old house still hasn't sold (and Francisco Franco is still dead). My realtor says that there have been 7 showings in three days so, you know, buy it, someone.
--This house was my dream house two years ago. It's the house I didn't get (because other people bought it for more money than I could) and it's the house that got me on the year and a half house hunting that culminated in me buying my current house.
--And, honestly, I like my new house even better than that house. Except the yard. Because whereas my yard is very nice, that house has a yard that is all the AWESOME. It's a half acre, wooded, deep, deep lot.
--Except that yard is not fenced. At all.
--Except that house is now listed at $50,000 more than I paid for this house (actually more than $50,000 more), which may not be much in California housing dollars but is a lot of money in Iowa dollars.
--And no one keeps that house more than two years (I have no idea why because it's really a very nice house), but they don't.
--And I like my house. A lot. And I like the fact that I didn't pay $50,000 more for it. And I didn't have to pay to put up a fence. And my current plans are to stay quite a bit longer than two years.
--So, huh.
--And good :-)
Comments
Hmmm. That other house. How do you get FOUR bedrooms into a 1600 square foot house?
May your other house sell soon! It's the right season for it, anyway--new hires moving into the college town.
Posted by: SarahP | April 3, 2007 04:58 PM
Yes, and what would I need four bedrooms for? I need three bedrooms. No question. I mean three bedrooms for one person is perfectly sensible. Logical even.
But four.
My god.
I would get lost.
Posted by: debco | April 4, 2007 12:55 PM