I have just done myself the grand disservice of finding a house that I want, in a neighborhood that I want to live in, in the price range that we will eventually be looking for. EVENTUALLY. As in NOT RIGHT NOW. As in can’t have it even though Sarah like. Sigh.
I wish that we did have the money to buy a house right now. (Right now is looking forward to November, by the way, when our lease is up on the current rent house with the monstrously cheap rent and disastrously high bills.) With the housing market in a nationwide slump, it’s a good time to buy. If you can get a loan, they have good interest rates, it’s a buyers market, blah, blah, blah. But no matter how slumpy the housing market is, 20% of a house is a lot of dollars, and all of our extra dollars right now are being saved for the extra dollars we will need next year when I’m in nursing school and we’re living off of only Zack’s dollars. The housing market (and the economy) really want us to buy a house right now. Unfortunately, my life plans do not coincide with those ideas. That’s the long way around why I should not be spending ANY of my minutes surfing around realtors.com. Not surfing realtors.com, however, seems to be a lesson that I can’t learn.
I can’t learn that lesson because about once a month, I think to myself that if I have to blow dry my hair in this horrible yellow and blue bathroom one more time, I’m going to poke my own eyeballs out. Unless the paint colors take on a life of their own and jump of the walls and pluck out my eyeballs for me. These colors are REALLY bright. Do really bright colors sometimes become eye plucking monsters? Cause if that was the case, there’s a chance I could talk Zack into painting it a nice neutral stone color. That’s the only chance I’ve got, though, which is the same percentage as NOT A CHANCE IN HELL.
owning a home has turned into one of the best experiences of my life, even more so because it convinced me that i WILL NOT LEAVE MIKE EVER.
because if i were going to leave mike, this move and ‘redecorating’ (which has hit a MAJOR pause, we’re so tired) would have done it. kind of like you and the laundry machines.
that being said, it is a process.
and nobody understands bad paint better than i do.
so when you guys want to find a new rental place, don’t forget your friend jennifer.
jennifer with the MLS information who can help you find your next rental WITHOUT terrible paint.
keep on truckin’, my friend.
p.s. if we don’t get this house done soon, i’m gonna let you and zack buy it. for a $20 down payment. don’t tell mike.
BYE.
I totally identify with this. Even the lady who does our taxes was trying to get me and Chris to buy a house, but we A) can’t afford a 20% down payment until I’m employed full-time and B) might not want to commit to living in the armpit of America for another five years. Sigh.
I am in the same boat. We rent a house too. We are unable to buy now because we sacrifice to send our kids to private school (the public schools where I live are horrible). We just cannot afford a house right now as badly as I would love to have one.
Still, it hasn’t stopped me from surfing the internet. I visit realtor site and I visit Craig’s List a couple of times a day. I think I just like to make mysefl miserable.
Have you looked into HUD housing? Once Zack is a bona fide officer of the law, he will qualify for the “Good Neighbor Next Door” program.
Penny–You’re a stronger woman than I am, that’s for sure. If I surfed those sites every day, I’d be maniac.
Snow–We’d heard of it, but you inspired us to take a deeper look. Thanks for the reminder. I need to call someone who can answer all my questions about that program. There are some areas listed as ‘revitalization areas’ in fort worth that are projected to be ‘the next hot neighborhoods’… there are also some areas that are currently ‘fear for your life’ areas, so we’re weighing that with a grain of salt.