Oh, the hissing, spitting and growling that going on in this house! And it's pretty much just from Sophie, poor little kitty. She's just had her whole world changed and now these strange new people want her to make friends with another kitty too? On the same day ( Read more... )

We're going to take a break from house hunting and get a playmate for our kitty, Dinsdale. Sophie will join our household this weekend! Dinsy's been so bored, maybe she and Sophie will get along well and play together. I hope, anyway..........

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The house has been on the market for over 21 days and the seller has recently lowered the price. He refused our initial offer AND our counter offer which was just $5000 shy of his full asking price.
FUCK THIS SHIT.

We've been looking at other houses lately and have made an offer on a very nice one in east Austin. It's in a very nice neighborhood, and comes with newish appliances. The house itself has two large bedrooms, two bathrooms and a fireplace. The seller has made a counter offer and we're still waiting to hear whether our counter offer has been ( Read more... )

The house is over and done with. It won't be ours. There is a $10,000 plumbing leak that the seller refuses to fix. He is instead going to lower the price and put it back on the market. Since the house would not pass an FHA appraisal or house inspection, we are out of the picture ( Read more... )

Everyone has their favorite songs, but there are some songs that give me a physical, almost visceral reaction. These go beyond being mere "favorites"; hearing them become necessary to my happiness in life, even if I just listen to them once every year or so. These songs are so important to me that I could literally listen to them over and over ( Read more... )

After being in such a hurry to sell us a house with a defective plumbing system, the seller is taking his sweet time about getting it repaired. skeleton and I have gone over to the house and looked inside (I know the combination to the lockbox) and so far, the only thing that's been done is somebody looked under the kitchen sink. We could tell that because ( Read more... )

According to the real estate attorney who is handling the negotiations of the sale of this house, we cannot use our realtor because the slimy realtor "procured the sale through the use of his marketing", i.e., we called the number on the sign instead of our realtor doing it. So if we want to buy the house, we have to use the slimy realtor, or face ( Read more... )

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We terminated our house contract today, because of the fucking slimy realtor. Not only wouldn't he fax back copies of option renewals unless I threatened to call the Board of Realtors on him, he babbled incessantly, not letting us get a word in edgewise and he also signed himself as our (the buyers) representative on the contract without telling us ( Read more... )