House Shopping and More!
Last weekend, with two months until our lease expires on our rental, Justin and I started looking at new places to rent due to the vast problems with this property our landlord will not take care of, up to and including the drain in our basement clogging and leaving standing water in our basement for three days before it drained and stayed in the drain (the drain never fully drained) until Justin got some sulfuric acid and cleaned it himself. After two weeks of not doing our laundry we gave up because she never got a plumber in even though "she would soon."
Anyways, I digress. We don't want to live here anymore, so we started looking at rentals and on a whim, houses. Wow, has the housing market crashed. We're trying to get a house in the next two months, which may prove to be difficult because our cap of $100k on a house means we have to look at a lot of houses that need repairs and we'll have to get them fixed in a month since we'll need to get it fixed before the mortgage payment kicks in, since we can't afford to pay for the house and the apartment at the same time. Most of the houses we're looking at are being sold as-is due to being foreclosures.
People do this all the time. This is insane. Any house we get better not have to many problems, dangit. Lol. Send good thoughts our way on finding a house we can fix quickly and easily, since we don't have liquid assets to spend $5k on fixing the house before we move in.
All of this is enough to make me wonder if we should just wait to get a house, but we can't afford healthwise to stay in this rental for another year, so I'm hoping if worse comes to worse she'll let us stay on a month-by-month basis. Let's hope. I don't like our housing status staying in limbo.
Our friend Herb came and stayed for a few days. I felt bad because we barely got to see him, an he felt really obligated to split his time with us and Miranda and Andrew, so in the end we didn't get to see him as much as I would have liked, but it was great to visit before he left for China again. Herb, don't get too skinny this time. =P
Work is very long and hard, but it's interesting and it makes my days go by quickly. I know that having over a month of vacation time available to me is going to be very appealing, but I seriously wonder if I'm ever going to get to use it with the way things are going. One of my team member is a lazy, sloppy person and so it puts the burden on me and Carla. Universities really do have a laidback work ethic, but when you work in an office as busy as ours, it screws us. Oi.
I look forward to getting my master's so I have less BS to deal with. I can handle the upper management BS. That's fine. But being unable to do anything like in my situation sucks.
Hubby and kid are sick, so I'm going to go take care of them now. Ya'll take care.
Anyways, I digress. We don't want to live here anymore, so we started looking at rentals and on a whim, houses. Wow, has the housing market crashed. We're trying to get a house in the next two months, which may prove to be difficult because our cap of $100k on a house means we have to look at a lot of houses that need repairs and we'll have to get them fixed in a month since we'll need to get it fixed before the mortgage payment kicks in, since we can't afford to pay for the house and the apartment at the same time. Most of the houses we're looking at are being sold as-is due to being foreclosures.
People do this all the time. This is insane. Any house we get better not have to many problems, dangit. Lol. Send good thoughts our way on finding a house we can fix quickly and easily, since we don't have liquid assets to spend $5k on fixing the house before we move in.
All of this is enough to make me wonder if we should just wait to get a house, but we can't afford healthwise to stay in this rental for another year, so I'm hoping if worse comes to worse she'll let us stay on a month-by-month basis. Let's hope. I don't like our housing status staying in limbo.
Our friend Herb came and stayed for a few days. I felt bad because we barely got to see him, an he felt really obligated to split his time with us and Miranda and Andrew, so in the end we didn't get to see him as much as I would have liked, but it was great to visit before he left for China again. Herb, don't get too skinny this time. =P
Work is very long and hard, but it's interesting and it makes my days go by quickly. I know that having over a month of vacation time available to me is going to be very appealing, but I seriously wonder if I'm ever going to get to use it with the way things are going. One of my team member is a lazy, sloppy person and so it puts the burden on me and Carla. Universities really do have a laidback work ethic, but when you work in an office as busy as ours, it screws us. Oi.
I look forward to getting my master's so I have less BS to deal with. I can handle the upper management BS. That's fine. But being unable to do anything like in my situation sucks.
Hubby and kid are sick, so I'm going to go take care of them now. Ya'll take care.