Showing posts with label real estate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label real estate. Show all posts

17 October 2013

I have one of those, but I don't know where it is

Chez Squirrel is still the "in between" house (our rental). In the 6 months we have been house hunting, we have found three houses that we liked enough to make offers. On the first we just didn't come to mutually agreeable terms with the seller, so no hard feelings there. The last two went sour due to stupid seller tricks. The last one really hurt; the place was damn near perfect. 

When we moved into the in between house, I was not expecting to still be here now, and I selected the boxes to unpack accordingly. Throughout the time we've been here, I periodically have needed something I know I own, but it is boxed away somewhere and stored in one of three locations: the attic, the Pod or the storage locker back near the old house. The longer we stay here, the more frequently often that happens. It is becoming a running joke for me to then say that I know I have whatever it is that I need or am looking for, but I just don't know where it is. And now that cooler weather is approaching, included in that are jackets and long sleeved shirts. 

The Pod and the storage locker in our old hometown are beyond help, but the attic, well, I've put that off long enough. This weekend's project is to sort and organize the boxes, and maybe I'll find a jacket or two before the first real cold snap of the season.

02 July 2013

GRANITE!!! (and Bradford pear trees)

If I see another house with cheap cabinets in a crappy layout that the seller just went ahead and had some granite countertops installed and is calling it an "upgrade", I could just scream! Why, oh why do they do that?!!? 

It's as bad as builders sticking two Bradford pear trees in the front yard and then saying the lot has nice shade trees. Once they get any size on them, the damn things just split in half during a garden-variety summer thunderstorm.