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It amazes me what property costs where you live! Our house is 2,400 ft., built in 2003, and we would get about $190K for it if it were “priced to sell” by the end of January.
Weather is weird. If you offered to pay Anoreth, she could do something with yours, but you all probably wouldn’t like anything different from what you’ve got!
Anoreth “fixes” weather, for a fee. I don’t know how ... she goes mumblemumblemumble and you get sun for the church festival three years in a row, and then she wins the raffle, too. I used to mumblemumblemumble and then predict within $.05 how much an SCA event would earn (or lose) per attendee. And I could predict exactly how long it would take the get my employer’s annual taxes out of chaos. “Oh, don’t worry, we’ll have this all sorted by 3:00 p.m. next Tuesday ... plenty of time!”
When we moved here prices were *much* lower. California was SO expensive -- our second house was 1100 sq.ft. on flat 1/2 acre right on the highway through the valley, and about $100k when sold in 1983.
For that money here we bought... oh gosh, I forget the footage -- 3000+ sq.ft. "rambler" (means single-level house, usually "ranch-style") on a private half-acre adjacent to greenbelt, close in (just a few miles from Seattle city line), peek-a-boo view of Lake Washington from the odd second-story room on the back wing. I could practice my pipes in the downstairs family room in that wing and not be heard in the rest of the house. Oh -- and virtuallbrand-new: it was a repo and the previous owners had trashed the place, it was taken down to studs an rebuilt. Took a lot of work to get rid of the blackberries and put in a yard.
It was a funny house. If you didn't pay attention on entering, it could be an effort to find the front door.
Had to sell it during a financial downturn. When we bought this house that one was on the market, but just a bit out of our reach, sadly. OTOH, traffic over there is absolutely terrible now.
We had friends in Tulsa - Pat’s godparents - who bought a house that had to be totally redone like that. And not a single room had right-angle corners! Tremendous views of a fancy golf course, though.
The front door opened into a hall with a big natural-stone scenic wall (I guess), and then you had to go up stairs to get anywhere. It was dreadful trying to park there in a big van! I think we hit a gate at least once.
They had 5,000 ft., iirc. I used to go clean there sometimes, and then go back to my little house in the ‘burbs, where things were square, in relief.
Me, I'm a noisemaker. I play pipes. *\;-)
I’d like to have a house like that again. We’re not overly picky about houses (no search has lasted more than 3 weeks), but this is our second PNW mid-entry split — a boring floorplan, but it met certain critical requirements so we went with it.
House prices haven’t fallen there?
When my dad and I camp, it rains. We used to think it was Dad, me, and my brother, but then after Russ left home, it still rained if Dad and I camped anywhere. We made it rain in the Big Bend, for the first time in 11 months, and then all over West Texas as we hunted for a new alternator for a Toyota pickup truck. Three inches in Fort Stockton (where we found the only Japanese alternator between San Antonio and El Paso), first rain in 8 months.
And when we went rafting in West Virginia, five inches!
Too bad Dad’s health is failing, or we could have a Rainmaker business!
I don’t think so. Increases leveled off but I think that’s all. Microsoft is still growing and that keeps the pressure on.
Sounds like you could! I’m no stranger to camping in the rain...
-10 is crazy cold for your part of the country.
Does your house hold the heat well?
+10 Farenheit, and it is quite cold for here, especially a couple of weeks in a row!
We have 1200 drafty SF, and if I had to buy it now, I wouldn’t be able to afford it.
Ditto.
Good idea!
You and LOM need to ‘pool’ your resources.
Glad to hear it.
One never hears the good news in the media.
My ol artillery unit would make it rain.
We’d get a fire mission every time there were low hanging clouds.
*boom*
Instant rainstorm.
But we never did anything like what you describe.
Have a good night, and stay warm.
Is Venezuelan money worth anything anymore?
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