Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Houses and stuff
Last year my sweety and I made the monumental decision to buy a house. We had put it off for a while because I had been told that the housing market goes up and down. So we kept waiting for home prices to drop, even a little. They never did, I was misinformed. Seems like prices for houses never drop unless the area turns into a run-down ghetto. So we decided to just jump in. It’s like waiting for an even better price for a computer. You’ll never get one if you just keep waiting.
I recently read that prices for single-family homes in metropolitan areas have slowed down. Great, now that we’re trying to refinance out of our crazy-expensive monthly payments. We’ve made various improvements on the house, which really helped bring up its value. Curb appeal matters when there’s a flood of new houses on the market. Plus it looks nice when relatives come over. We’re proud to say, “We live here!” Still, the banks weren’t all that impressed.
Okay, this might seem a bit bizarre (and please forgive me, I get a little cash for putting the link here, and I need all the help I can get), but I’m going to drop the name Barrington Real Estate. It goes to New Castle Realty, which has extensive listings for the Barrington, Illinois area, in case you’re interested.
This is a totally boring post, ugh. I suggest going to visit my newest renter, Tales of the Opiated Sherpa. How can you resist with a blog name like that? I’m going to have him do my heavy lifting for the week. Sherpas are good for that. I think.