Still for sale
I missed you internetz, but I was spending time with my family!!!! Wow :-)
We went to Aberdeen today. The real estate dude needs to be fired. I don't know if we will do it though, because it's not like there's anyone a lot better. But seriously, last month, Stephen told him that he was going to come down to get the lawn mowed and RED says, "I'll take care of it for you." We get there today and the grass is up to Stephen's hips. RED says "Yeah, the guy who does that retired. Sorry." And it didn't occur to you to tell us this? So we could come take care of it ourselves? WTF! The house has been shown three times since we dropped the price and all three times, it had a jungle yard and dead plants inside.
I guess RED isn't entirely incompetent though, because he did suggest taking the washer and dryer out of the bathroom. Apparently, people were complaining that it was too tight of a fit to get in, and I totally understand. It's the least user-friendly bathroom ever. Combine that with being a one-bathroom house, and ... well, you get the idea. If the washer and dryer had been IN the bathroom when we were looking, I don't know that we would have chosen this house either. Stephen complained that it was misleading to take them out, but hey, the house has to get sold right?
We also decided to dump some more money into the bathroom. We just lowered the price, so we can't do that again, but we can replace the nasty old sink, faucent and cabinetry and the crappy medicine cabinet mirror. We've spent only $80 so far, because we had to take the sink/canbinetry back. Why? Because it was clawfoot style and the fantastic people who owned our house before us cut the vinyl flooring AROUND the sink. So there is no floor under the cabinet that's already there. Nice.
Our debt is now down to about $13,000 and shrinking faster everyday. I'm striving so hard to stop spending like we are rich and just put all of Stephen's tips down on the credit card bill. It's really hard, but we're making so much progress.
We also found out that rental income (much like tip income) will not count for us to get approved for a mortgage. So if we decided to take it off the market and rent it out, we will have to rent ourselves since we STILL won't be approved to buy. LAME!!!!
I really want to be out of here by like mid-June. That's so soon people!!!!!!
Even though I worked my ass off today (do you even know what is under a washer and dryer?) I feel really really good. Better than I have in a long time. Because I got to actually do something that was putting me closer to my goal. I'm sick of hoping and praying and waiting. It sucks.
We went to Aberdeen today. The real estate dude needs to be fired. I don't know if we will do it though, because it's not like there's anyone a lot better. But seriously, last month, Stephen told him that he was going to come down to get the lawn mowed and RED says, "I'll take care of it for you." We get there today and the grass is up to Stephen's hips. RED says "Yeah, the guy who does that retired. Sorry." And it didn't occur to you to tell us this? So we could come take care of it ourselves? WTF! The house has been shown three times since we dropped the price and all three times, it had a jungle yard and dead plants inside.
I guess RED isn't entirely incompetent though, because he did suggest taking the washer and dryer out of the bathroom. Apparently, people were complaining that it was too tight of a fit to get in, and I totally understand. It's the least user-friendly bathroom ever. Combine that with being a one-bathroom house, and ... well, you get the idea. If the washer and dryer had been IN the bathroom when we were looking, I don't know that we would have chosen this house either. Stephen complained that it was misleading to take them out, but hey, the house has to get sold right?
We also decided to dump some more money into the bathroom. We just lowered the price, so we can't do that again, but we can replace the nasty old sink, faucent and cabinetry and the crappy medicine cabinet mirror. We've spent only $80 so far, because we had to take the sink/canbinetry back. Why? Because it was clawfoot style and the fantastic people who owned our house before us cut the vinyl flooring AROUND the sink. So there is no floor under the cabinet that's already there. Nice.
Our debt is now down to about $13,000 and shrinking faster everyday. I'm striving so hard to stop spending like we are rich and just put all of Stephen's tips down on the credit card bill. It's really hard, but we're making so much progress.
We also found out that rental income (much like tip income) will not count for us to get approved for a mortgage. So if we decided to take it off the market and rent it out, we will have to rent ourselves since we STILL won't be approved to buy. LAME!!!!
I really want to be out of here by like mid-June. That's so soon people!!!!!!
Even though I worked my ass off today (do you even know what is under a washer and dryer?) I feel really really good. Better than I have in a long time. Because I got to actually do something that was putting me closer to my goal. I'm sick of hoping and praying and waiting. It sucks.