Back on the wagon, I think

We took last week off to recover from almost buying a money pit. It was a close one, but in the end, I'm glad we chose not to pursue the Catalpa house. We withdrew our offer and are waiting to get our escrow checks back from the realtor. It certainly takes a lot longer to get them returned that it did for him to deposit them. I'm beginning to think it's intentional.

Over the weekend, we looked at 3 houses. The first two were foreclosures. Let me tell you, they were both awful. That's the thing about foreclosures; I have yet to see one that isn't absolutely horrible. If they were at least priced right and could be repaired... The first house had an interesting feature: a fake 2-car garage. Just inside the garage door, there was a cinder block wall. I guess these crazy people had expanded the master, but that left nowhere to park. The second house was basically a tear-down. It was full of mold and incredibly disgusting!

The third house was in Audubon Park, one of our target neighborhoods. It was very cute, though a bit small. Its major drawback was that it was located on the corner of a busy street. Not only would you have to deal with the noise, but I imagine it would also be difficult to sell down the road. And it had no dishwasher! Now, that's just unheard of in 2008.

We'll keep looking.

-- Yana