Well, our housing search just got a little more pressing. To paraphrase Jon Stewart: Eviction. Me no likey.
Our landlady told us that she needs to sell this house to pay for the house that she just bought in Seattle. I don't begrudge her. She is nice and has been quite accomodating to us. We haven't had a lease since November, with the mutual knowledge that we might move, if we had found a place, any time.
We learned a lot from this place. We learned that 2,000 square feet is just a little too little for us. We need the fourth bedroom/office to be comfortable. Much of this is encapsulated in the post A house is. That's good to know.
This comes at a bad time. Work is "big deadline" time for me. I have had to cut short a vacation with the McMurtry's due to this deadline. (It is essentially the final weeks that proceed from a 4 year development cycle. It sucks but I accept that it's the business I'm in.) We haven't had a lot of luck with this whole house thing. I can't see things getting worse, only better.
We plan to move into an apartment for a period and put some of our stuff into storage. The housing market here is a "sellers market." There is little inventory, as they say, in the mid and low price ranges. There is inventory in the 'starting at $600,000' market. More than one person has pointed out that the end of the world is coming when that is the starting price of a house. I don't know about that. We'll see how things go. Our search area is expanding everyday. We'll find something eventually.
3 comments:
What is the time frame? When do you have to move out?
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I am guessing you don't have much time for Blogging these days. How is the apartment market. or maybe another house? You are both very resourceful and I am confident that you will do fine.
We have to move out at the end of the month. We found a townhouse, which will do for now. Now for the packing and moving.
We'll hire movers for the big stuff but we still have to put some stuff in storage so we'll rent a truck for that.
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