Comments | hradzka: I am a homeowner

hradzka

I am a homeowner

Dec 09, 2011 08:18

I have been running around a little lately, but I have some worthwhile news to share: I am a homeowner.

( Details and some mention of financials below cut. )

life

Comments 13

marag December 9 2011, 16:09:32 UTC

Hooray for homeownership! I am, naturally, amused about the FHA loan, but I think we're all entitled to a little hypocrisy in our lives. (As I noted to my cousins the other day, I'm a proud hypocrite who eats meat but absolutely positively refuses to kill an animal myself or watch someone else do it.)

Enjoy the house. The paranoia does eventually go away, I promise.

hradzka December 10 2011, 15:53:40 UTC

I'm not all that bothered by small hypocrisies -- it's fun to rag on prominent folks for 'em, but I've always liked the sentiment that "hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue." This doesn't feel like a moral hypocrisy, though, so much as it does a cynical-ass calculation to get more for me and mine, which I kind of think isn't all that good for society in the long run. But then, I've become much more cynical in my old age.

hjcallipygian December 9 2011, 19:20:58 UTC

Aww. You know where I was hoping you'd end up buying a house. Still, that is awesome! Now you get to fix stuff randomly for the rest of your life. Of course, the awesome counter-point to that is that you have a reason to own a lot of power tools.

hradzka December 10 2011, 15:54:56 UTC

I really do love Jacksonville! And I looked hard there. In the end, though, it came down to having a place that I could leave Ma where she had friends and acquaintances. And that left where Ma was or the old hometown, really, and I could get a hell of a lot more house in the old hometown.

beamjockey December 9 2011, 20:00:31 UTC

It's not a concrete tomb?

hradzka December 10 2011, 15:55:08 UTC

NOT YET CHECK BACK LATER

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hradzka December 10 2011, 16:26:00 UTC

Thank you!

burger_eater December 10 2011, 06:39:45 UTC

Wonderful and congratulations, and who cares about the FHA. You did what you had to do to make yourself happy, and I'm glad it was there to help you.

Looking forward to the pictures!

hradzka December 10 2011, 17:11:37 UTC

Well, as I said to Mara, I'm more concerned with the fact that I don't think the gummint can really afford to do a lot of this stuff, so I feel like a pebble getting onto an avalanche. Good way to get somewhere, but I'm a little worried about the collective outcome!