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House Hunters: The Saga

Well, the house hunting isn’t really going anywhere. We’ve looked at exactly ONE place so far and it was snatched up the day after we looked at it. We didn’t really like it anyway. It had a lot of floor space but was old and needed work, which didn’t bother us as much as the buiding itself and the lack of amenities. So, we continue.

Originally, we’d been pre-approved for $350,000 to buy the house of our dreams. Yeah, sure, right … maybe in Indiana or Georgia, but not here in the San Francisco Bay Area where a two bedroom shack costs over a million dollars. After a couple of weeks of looking and finding nothing reasonable, we’ve been re-pre-approved for $380,000, in hopes of opening up the field a bit. Here’s the problem. There’s literally nothing for sale that’s decent and in our range. My cousin, who’s our realtor, searched daily and comes up with nothing. Of course, he’s weeding out the rat holes and crap that might go DOWN in value. But still, it’s a little frustrating to say the least. I know damn well that if we moved to anywhere else in the country, we’d have real estate agents sucking our assholes to get our money … and they’d be offering us four and five bedroom homes. But here we can’t seem to be able to afford anything.

We did have a glimmer of hope last night that something opened up in a complex that both of us were interested in, just a couple of blocks from my work. The place was older but had two bedrooms and two bathrooms and would suit our needs. My cousin called to find out when he could show it to us and was told that they already received numerous offers on that place. Ugh. I swear, places are on the market for a day and are already flooded with offers. Which means that Wifey™ and I are going to have to rush to a place and make a decision right there and then as to whether we want it or not … and homey don’t play that. Talk about pressure. I mean, we probably won’t even have time to think about it overnight. It’ll be a case of, if you like you’d better make an offer on it right now. Ugh. Stress. It takes me months to a damn piece of furniture, how the hell am I going to decide to buy a house after looking at it once. I’m probably going to throw up on someone when the time comes.

Anyhow, that’s the househunting update for now. Really … nothing. I don’t know how people do it. Insanity, I’m telling you.

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