<$Thursday, May 22, 2008$>
Sound the trumpets: the hunt is ON!
| Thanks to all the craziness this month, which still has yet to let up, we have yet to actually begin our house hunt. I've been searching online, but we've postponed meeting with a realtor twice, and we don't have any houses lined up to see live and in person. This might be a good thing, since we don't really know what we're doing. I ordered Home Buying For Dummies  , which shipped yesterday, so hopefully we'll get it in time to at least skim this weekend. Meanwhile, through my online perusing I found a nice townhouse just a few blocks from where I work. I think Husband has his heart set on an actual house with a yard, but all I can see are the dollar signs. This condo is affordable(depending on the dues and maintenance fees, natch), well below our spending budget, and the location is fantastic. It's a decent neighborhood, with plenty of shops and eating places in walking distance, and several grocery store options within a few miles. The biggest plus for me is that I could walk or bike to work, allowing us to get by with only one car. I'm also considering the fact that the asking price for this place is low enough that we could possibly borrow the entire amount that we initially applied for and have enough left over to pay off our credit cards. Between virtually eliminating my huge commuter gasoline bill and eliminating our credit card payments, even with condo fees I think we'd still come out ahead in our monthly budget. So while it might be a hard sell for Husband, I still want to check this place out. Hopefully, I'll be able to get us in to see it this weekend. Labels: house-hunt |
<$Monday, May 19, 2008$>
Bauhaushold Blahs
| The Bauhaushold has not been doing so great lately. For starters, we lost one of our own: our furbaby Fizzgigg passed away the first of this month. The rest of us have been slow in recovering from the huge wound left by the tiny guy's absence, a process not helped along by Husband and I both coming down with bronchitis last week. Since then, a whole course of antibiotics has downgraded it to a chest cold, but even so, we feel yucky. So this is why I haven't been blogging lately. I just haven't had the will, nor the energy, to keep up with all of my blogs, and this one received the brunt of my neglect. Sadly, my finances have been equally neglected all month, and that is so not good. So I need to get back to finance blogging, because that will make me feel obligated to be diligent about my finances once again. It's probably a false sense of accountability, but it's accountability nonetheless. Thankfully, Wednesday is a payday. I'll be able to start from there with a clean slate. Labels: personal |
