CricketBeautiful
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Had the home inspection yesterday, and it's a go!
We're officially changing houses. Same city, same phone number, bigger house.
Shorter drive to work, but no car pool. Hopefully better school. Closer to school, definitely walking distance.
Closer to the better pool, same distance to library and park. (Different library and park, less walking.)
In a crescent, so no traffic. Not on a hill. (Just enough of a hill for good drainage, not enough to affect bicycling.)
Hubby will drive by a place doing real meals for busy people, as opposed to fast-food.
Grocery store and deli right by school.
We saw almost 40 houses, put an offer on one but withdrew it when $2000 of brickwork turned into $6000 immediately ($8000 to redo enough that it doesn't look like a patch), and who knows when other side will need it -- basically a bad batch of bricks. End result of that one: out $500 for the home inspection.
This one, though, passed with "typical for house of its age" colours. We'll have to spend about $3000 regular maintenance before we'd expected. The shower wall is likely to fail catastrophically, so that's moved from "in two years to make it look better" to "now". Same with repainting the window trim. The wood stove is absolutely not to be used (and clean out the old ashes, so if there is a fire the insurance company won't say we were using it).
We get the keys April 20, expecting another week or two before we move in.
We got it for a good price. Old shag carpet and kitchen cupboards. So much nicer that way; we get to choose our own colours, rather than paying full price for colours we don't like.
Current house, eeps. Still another week or two of work before we can put it on the market. Mostly clearing out the junk of 13 years, but a few cosmetic things. And a few hundred discretionary; will a sticky faucet turn them off if they like the rest of it?
I'm not sure who has my old address. Email me if you want the new one.
Wheee!!!!
Cricket
Sandy Schoen
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