Yargh!!
The real estate market in South Florida is utterly insane. Complete lunacy, no shred of sanity left to it.
You can put a listing--and I shit you not--that says "Piece of crap hole-in-the-wall condo, rat infestation the size of small dogs, 900 sq ft. Asking 175,000" and you will get a flood of offers. It's rather sad.
I found this one place that is under construction for a target date of September. Initially it was 170, now they're asking $215,000. It's rather nice though--1400 sq ft, 3/2. If it was 200, I could probably find a way to afford it. As it stands...damnit!
I need to find a goddamned home for under 200 that isn't a total shithole. Unfortunately, anything under 200 goes in--literally--hours. I'm getting ready to start going old-school Roman style for purchasing locations. Look up Marcus Licinius Crassus sometime for a good read on the original Real Estate Mogul.
Beyond that, things are going good with work. Getting more responsibility with the Sr. Engineer gone, and I even held a meeting today on Sharepoint that went fairly well. The successful installation and demo that I managed to squeak out certainly helped me there.
Probably won't get a raise anytime soon, though. Sucks. I need to start breaking into the 40s in order to really afford a decent place, it looks like. Or maybe I'm just being unrealistic.
You can put a listing--and I shit you not--that says "Piece of crap hole-in-the-wall condo, rat infestation the size of small dogs, 900 sq ft. Asking 175,000" and you will get a flood of offers. It's rather sad.
I found this one place that is under construction for a target date of September. Initially it was 170, now they're asking $215,000. It's rather nice though--1400 sq ft, 3/2. If it was 200, I could probably find a way to afford it. As it stands...damnit!
I need to find a goddamned home for under 200 that isn't a total shithole. Unfortunately, anything under 200 goes in--literally--hours. I'm getting ready to start going old-school Roman style for purchasing locations. Look up Marcus Licinius Crassus sometime for a good read on the original Real Estate Mogul.
Beyond that, things are going good with work. Getting more responsibility with the Sr. Engineer gone, and I even held a meeting today on Sharepoint that went fairly well. The successful installation and demo that I managed to squeak out certainly helped me there.
Probably won't get a raise anytime soon, though. Sucks. I need to start breaking into the 40s in order to really afford a decent place, it looks like. Or maybe I'm just being unrealistic.