Wahoo, we think we've found a house to buy! Compared to the current duplex, it is the Taj Mahal. Of course, the same could be said of a room at the Motel 6 or your local county jail lock-up. Regardless, it'd be a great place for us and we're both jazzed.
We put in our offer last night and got the counter-offer almost immediately. I learned two things from the counter-offer. First, some people spend $6,000 on a washer and dryer. Second, if you buy someone's house, you don't get automatically get their $6000 washer and dryer. I understood their reluctance, so I told them to throw in a washboard and we'd have a deal.
Good Lord willing, we'll be in this house on May 1st. (Our current lease keeps us from moving anywhere for a couple of months, thus the delay.) Since a stable financial situation is critical between now and then, look for the following to happen: stock market crash, then a nation-wide bank panic, then the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to 87%, then I get fired and blackballed from any industry dealing with electricity. Some people like to think positively, but I find it much less stressful to think disastrously. That way, as long as my hair doesn't catch on fire, anything's a success.
On an unrelated note, I'm having some email issues with ye olde codypowell.com accounts. If you get anything from codypo [at] gmail dot com, it's not a Cody Powell doppelganger; it's the original CWMP gansta.
Posted by Cody at February 27, 2008 9:28 PM