House hunting is exhausting
Oct. 3rd, 2017 09:58 pmBut first happy birthday to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dragonydreams! Hope it was a nice one.
And my mental health wasn't up to doing the writerly ways post I wanted to do. Maybe tomorrow. I was so stressed out today that I forgot to turn on one of the wash machines (put the coins in, walked away with them just sitting there) so it took twice as long. In theory the new land lords will be here tomorrow morning (WTF? THis is NOT HUD housing with people on welfare, most of us are gone at work all day) and in theory the rent is going up 100$. Now here's the problem. It's ILLEGAL to raise rent without a month's notice in Ohio. I want to point that out but I also don't want to start off on the wrong foot especially as much of a mess as I have going on in here. Sigh.
So I'm basically paying 700$/month now. I can get a decent house for that.
Dad wants me to buy this I think maybe he's had a stroke. This is the man who didn't want me to move 20 miles away and is showing me one 56 miles away. It IS too far, even if it IS a straight shot. On one hand, he's right, this is a beautiful place (and so cheap, I think it must be haunted or polluted by the paper mill or over a Native American mound or some shit) and it's in a complex where the group mows the lawn and fixes the outside etc. On the other hand, it's just like living in an apartment complex only more upscale...with a pool and gym).
Honestly if this was in Athens, I might not even argue. I'd just buy it. I know he's worried I can't fix up the outside of a house and will be ripped off by contractors (probably true) and that I can't do the lawn work...also possibly true. I DO worry about that. Maybe it'll be good for me to get out there and do it. Maybe it'll be a huge ass mistake but I can't know until I try.
Both he and Mom agree the house I found is the absolute PERFECT HOUSE for me. Sadly it TOO is 55 miles away from work. Whines.
Here's Dad's thoughts on the matter: It has your name written all over it from the gargoyles out front to the lace curtains in the parlor to the black ceiling in the upstairs bedroom.
It screams Dana!!!!
I see why it’s priced so low, a large flooding creek behind, railroad tracks out front and squeezed between houses on a back street. They put a lot of money into this house with the remodeling inside and outside. What a Halloween house this would make.
He added on the phone that I would never remodel this place because it's perfect for me and that someone HAS put a shit ton of money into updating it. You know, if not for the train track I might consider it and suck up that drive. But that's an active track (it's the one my steampunk train ride goes by) and I couldn't handle that.
It's October Third and I didn't write an FMA story. I feel bad but I do have these OMG wonderful (and expensive) new figures.
Al OMG he has KITTENS inside him!!
Ed
Roy
And RIP Tom Petty. You'll be missed.
dragonydreams! Hope it was a nice one.And my mental health wasn't up to doing the writerly ways post I wanted to do. Maybe tomorrow. I was so stressed out today that I forgot to turn on one of the wash machines (put the coins in, walked away with them just sitting there) so it took twice as long. In theory the new land lords will be here tomorrow morning (WTF? THis is NOT HUD housing with people on welfare, most of us are gone at work all day) and in theory the rent is going up 100$. Now here's the problem. It's ILLEGAL to raise rent without a month's notice in Ohio. I want to point that out but I also don't want to start off on the wrong foot especially as much of a mess as I have going on in here. Sigh.
So I'm basically paying 700$/month now. I can get a decent house for that.
Dad wants me to buy this I think maybe he's had a stroke. This is the man who didn't want me to move 20 miles away and is showing me one 56 miles away. It IS too far, even if it IS a straight shot. On one hand, he's right, this is a beautiful place (and so cheap, I think it must be haunted or polluted by the paper mill or over a Native American mound or some shit) and it's in a complex where the group mows the lawn and fixes the outside etc. On the other hand, it's just like living in an apartment complex only more upscale...with a pool and gym).
Honestly if this was in Athens, I might not even argue. I'd just buy it. I know he's worried I can't fix up the outside of a house and will be ripped off by contractors (probably true) and that I can't do the lawn work...also possibly true. I DO worry about that. Maybe it'll be good for me to get out there and do it. Maybe it'll be a huge ass mistake but I can't know until I try.
Both he and Mom agree the house I found is the absolute PERFECT HOUSE for me. Sadly it TOO is 55 miles away from work. Whines.
Here's Dad's thoughts on the matter: It has your name written all over it from the gargoyles out front to the lace curtains in the parlor to the black ceiling in the upstairs bedroom.
It screams Dana!!!!
I see why it’s priced so low, a large flooding creek behind, railroad tracks out front and squeezed between houses on a back street. They put a lot of money into this house with the remodeling inside and outside. What a Halloween house this would make.
He added on the phone that I would never remodel this place because it's perfect for me and that someone HAS put a shit ton of money into updating it. You know, if not for the train track I might consider it and suck up that drive. But that's an active track (it's the one my steampunk train ride goes by) and I couldn't handle that.
It's October Third and I didn't write an FMA story. I feel bad but I do have these OMG wonderful (and expensive) new figures.
Al OMG he has KITTENS inside him!!
Ed
Roy
And RIP Tom Petty. You'll be missed.
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