For all 2 of the readers out there who actually take time to visit me here, my apologies that I've been MIA lately... I've been busy. The sun was in my eyes. We ran out of milk. Wait....um...?
Seriously though, my time has been consumed with work and searching for a house. After how many years together, Anthony and I finally decided its time to buy a house. So here we are, in the midst of house hunting. We know what we want, and we figured that there are those things that are a MUST (like a quiet street) and those things that we want but can live without (like a huge master suite). We thought our demands were pretty easy.... I mean, we want a place we can fix up ourselves (within reason) so how hard could that be to find??
OYE.
After searching for only a couple months and seeing only a few houses so far, we're coming to the realization that maybe we demand a lot. We've only seen a few houses so far because most of the others (and there are A LOT) we've scoped out and found they were on busy streets, falling apart from the outside, or should be sold with a gun or other home-security system included. We had one close call on a house that just went on the market this week but decided it wasn't for us....we just didn't SEE ourselves in it.
We finally went to see a house yesterday that we've wanted to check out for a while. It was sunny and bright from the outside. Quiet street, nice craftsman style house, decent yard (yeah we'd LIKE bigger but the garage that was skewed about 10˚ off plumb would definitely be knocked down). We thought this one would be a shoe-in.
O-M-G
We walked in and I should've known to run when I smelled the stale pee smell from the front door. Now, these people had no cat/dog, so YOU tell me who that stale pee smell was from!
The house was falling apart. How can a house that looks so nice from the OUTSIDE be so bad inside?? Now, we're not just talking dirty and messy (both of which it was). We're talking all tours should come with has-mat suits. NAS-TY! OMG it was bad. Seriously the place had to be GUTTED in order to be livable. It says something when the musty old basement smells better than the main living space. And lets not talk about the condition of the bathroom. I still feel itchy from being in the house. I showered when I got home..
So the house hunt continues. We're going to an open house today. If this one doesn't leave me skeeved, I'll consider it a one-up from yesterday's disaster.
Wish us luck! :)
