OT: Halloween

Hi,

Dropped 30 said:

Whatcha doing and who's bein' what?

I have 3 parties saturday night, 1 on sunday and I am going to be a
witch -
the sort that would wear fishnet stockings ;-) I am able to wear a
cute
costume for the 1st time in almost 5 years!!

DH will be Shaggy from scooby doo - even in that baggy outfit you
can tell
he lost 25lbs!

Please take some pics of you and the DH in costume for us. On
Halloween I hand out candy and admire all the costumes that the kids
show up in. Maybe next year (if I have a house!) I'll throw a party
and have the teenagers hand out the candy to the kids. :-)

Enjoy,
Carmen

"Carmen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hi,

Dropped 30 said:

Whatcha doing and who's bein' what?

I have 3 parties saturday night, 1 on sunday and I am going to be a
witch -
the sort that would wear fishnet stockings ;-) I am able to wear a
cute
costume for the 1st time in almost 5 years!!

DH will be Shaggy from scooby doo - even in that baggy outfit you
can tell
he lost 25lbs!

Please take some pics of you and the DH in costume for us.

Will do :o)

On

Quoted message said:

Halloween I hand out candy and admire all the costumes that the kids
show up in. Maybe next year (if I have a house!) I'll throw a party
and have the teenagers hand out the candy to the kids. :-)

Enjoy,
Carmen

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I will just be giving out candy but I bought this cool wig to wear:

For several years now I've been giving out dimes which I glean from the
spare change I toss into a bowl all year long. I usually wash them so
they are nice and shiny, and kids ALWAYS appreciate MONEY. I usually
give 2 dimes each. Occasionally an older child will complain that I'm
being cheap, at which point I offer to take the money back since they
don't like it (I've yet to have a dime returned :-) This way, I'm not
tempted by candy in the house and the parents don't have to worry about
candy that may have been tampered with.

--
Saffire
205/147/125 - 5'1.5"
Atkins since 6/14/03
Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333

"Carmen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

Hi,

Dropped 30 said:

Whatcha doing and who's bein' what?

I have 3 parties saturday night, 1 on sunday and I am going to be a
witch -
the sort that would wear fishnet stockings ;-) I am able to wear a
cute
costume for the 1st time in almost 5 years!!

DH will be Shaggy from scooby doo - even in that baggy outfit you
can tell
he lost 25lbs!

Please take some pics of you and the DH in costume for us. On
Halloween I hand out candy and admire all the costumes that the kids
show up in. Maybe next year (if I have a house!) I'll throw a party
and have the teenagers hand out the candy to the kids. :-)

Enjoy,
Carmen

Carmen, why is there a possibilty you wont have a house???
Laureen

"Laureen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Carmen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hi,

Dropped 30 said:

Whatcha doing and who's bein' what?

I have 3 parties saturday night, 1 on sunday and I am going to be a
witch -
the sort that would wear fishnet stockings ;-) I am able to wear a
cute
costume for the 1st time in almost 5 years!!

DH will be Shaggy from scooby doo - even in that baggy outfit you
can tell
he lost 25lbs!

Please take some pics of you and the DH in costume for us. On
Halloween I hand out candy and admire all the costumes that the kids
show up in. Maybe next year (if I have a house!) I'll throw a party
and have the teenagers hand out the candy to the kids. :-)

Enjoy,
Carmen

Carmen, why is there a possibilty you wont have a house???
Laureen

i just figured right now she's in a an apartment and wants to buy a house
by next year, hopefully

Hi Laureen,
Dropped 30:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Whatcha doing and who's bein' what?

I have 3 parties saturday night, 1 on sunday and I am going to
be a witch - the sort that would wear fishnet stockings ;-) I
am able to
wear a cute costume for the 1st time in almost 5 years!!

DH will be Shaggy from scooby doo - even in that baggy outfit
you can tell he lost 25lbs!

Please take some pics of you and the DH in costume for us. On
Halloween I hand out candy and admire all the costumes that the
kids show up in. Maybe next year (if I have a house!) I'll throw
a
party and have the teenagers hand out the candy to the kids. :-)

Carmen, why is there a possibilty you wont have a house???

When Dropped 30 said she thought I lived in an apartment and was
looking to buy a house she was correct. The other part of the story
is that DH and I put an offer on a house the first few days of August.

Background: Nice house at the end of a cul-de-sac, 2200 square feet, a
family of three people and two cats will all be able to have ample
room. Two car garage one side of which would be a wonderful workshop
for DH and I. Two ventless gas fireplaces and a big Florida room. On
one side of the house is a wooded lot. There's a neighbor behind some
trees on the other side. The rear of the property is a steep slope
and also butts up against a city nature park (miles of trees, no
houses). The back yard is, as stated earlier, very steep. It's
tiered to account for this, and the bottom tier has an inground 14 by
32 foot pool, Grecian style. The pool needs a new liner - it's
clearly not been used for years, since the liner is literally in
tatters. We decide to buy the house despite the pool. We planned to
remove the pool liner and the concrete deck ourselves, then hire a
soil engineer to tell us the proper way to fill the hole so that the
soil would be stable (remember it's very steep) and capable of
supporting a structure should we ever desire one on that tier.

Next step, we make an offer. The counter is far too high. I decide
to not waste time, so I attach an explanatory note to the next offer
that explains that the reason we think the house hasdn't sold in 10
months on the market (in an average market time of 90 days area) is
the pool. People who want a pool would be daunted by the sheer amount
of work required to rehabilitate the pool, and people who didn't want
one would be daunted by the amount of work required to reclaim the
land. Apparently the couple hadn't ever considered that. Of two
potential counters I offered them (they get a higher price but reclaim
the land the way we want it done within 6 months of closing OR we do
the work but pay a lower price) they choose to sell the house for a
lower price and we take care of the pool. Fine and dandy.

Enter the VA appraisor. He appraises the house for just a bit more
than agreed-upon price (good) BUT says the sellers have to either make
the pool operational again or fill it in before he can approve it.
Says it's a safety issue. Aargh! The seller wants to sell quite
badly, so they look at getting the pool filled in. They ask through
our agent if we'd kick in for the cost. They plan to just fill up the
pool with fill and fill dirt, leave the pool in the ground and the
concrete decking in place too. We say "No" to kicking in on it since
we'll then have to take all the damn stuff back OUT of the pool,
remove the pool and decking and then get a soil engineer in to help us
reclaim the land properly anyway - ending up as more work and cost for
us than the original plan. The sellers decide they really want to
sell so they go ahead anyway. The first contractor they contacted put
them off and eventually stopped returning their calls. By then the
first contract period was about to expire. We agreed to sign a
one-month extension, but also said we would not sign another one. We
were assured that the sellers would be closing by the 26th, because
they were going out of town then.

Time passes. Two days ago our agent calls and says their agent says
they haven't got the pool filled and it's because the contractor says
there has to be X number of dry days before they can get their truck
back in there and blah, blah, blah. In other words, they *still*
can't close. Not funny at all. I told our agent that if they
couldn't have it done by the 31st don't bother doing it on our
account. We were holding firm on the "no more extensions" statement.
Two months is enough time to get the job done - especially since they
were only going to do a fill-in. If it had been Howard and I we'd
have done it with pickup trucks and wheelbarrows, but it would have
been *done*. The message was sent to the sellers and they went out of
town for their trip. We are out two months of our time and the bank
fees to boot.

It almost cost us our present apartment too. The day after we heard
from our agent, I got a call from a lady at the cable company. She
wanted to know why she had an order for cable to be turned on at our
address when we hadn't cancelled ours yet. Did we forget to do it in
the middle of a move perhaps? Uh-oh. We had given notice at the
apartment based on the fact we'd been assured the closing would be by
the end of the month! We'd had no idea until the day before that the
deal would fall through. The apartment management had re-rented our
apartment (they're nice apartments and a great complex) with no
trouble at all. Well, it turns out that they had had an unexpected
vacancy earlier in the month - an eviction of a two bedroom. The
management completely re-did that one - new carpet, new ceramic floor
tiles, the works. The worst that would happen is we'd have to move to
the other apartment. The main difference is the one we're in is a
deluxe two-bedroom, with a laundry room instead of closet and a bigger
living area also. ~1000 sq feet total as opposed to the regular
two-bedroom with ~875 sq feet. The management tried to contact the
guy who was due to move into our apartment next week, but that ended
up being difficult because he is a soldier and in air assault school
(think going every minute and under tight controls). They finally got
hold of him this afternoon and *thankfully* he agreed to take the
regular two-bedroom apartment instead of ours.

I've come to the conclusion that one of Howard's oncologists had it
right when he asked us if we were crazy to go house-hunting in the
middle of Howard's chemo. We weren't when we started but I came close
the day the cable lady called! <G>

So....by next year I want to have a house. ;-)

Take care,
Carmen

"Carmen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hi Laureen,
Dropped 30:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> Whatcha doing and who's bein' what?
>
> I have 3 parties saturday night, 1 on sunday and I am going to
> be a witch - the sort that would wear fishnet stockings ;-) I
> am able to
> wear a cute costume for the 1st time in almost 5 years!!
>
> DH will be Shaggy from scooby doo - even in that baggy outfit
> you can tell he lost 25lbs!

Please take some pics of you and the DH in costume for us. On
Halloween I hand out candy and admire all the costumes that the
kids show up in. Maybe next year (if I have a house!) I'll throw
a
party and have the teenagers hand out the candy to the kids. :-)

Carmen, why is there a possibilty you wont have a house???

When Dropped 30 said she thought I lived in an apartment and was
looking to buy a house she was correct. The other part of the story
is that DH and I put an offer on a house the first few days of August.

Background: Nice house at the end of a cul-de-sac, 2200 square feet, a
family of three people and two cats will all be able to have ample
room. Two car garage one side of which would be a wonderful workshop
for DH and I. Two ventless gas fireplaces and a big Florida room. On
one side of the house is a wooded lot. There's a neighbor behind some
trees on the other side. The rear of the property is a steep slope
and also butts up against a city nature park (miles of trees, no
houses). The back yard is, as stated earlier, very steep. It's
tiered to account for this, and the bottom tier has an inground 14 by
32 foot pool, Grecian style. The pool needs a new liner - it's
clearly not been used for years, since the liner is literally in
tatters. We decide to buy the house despite the pool. We planned to
remove the pool liner and the concrete deck ourselves, then hire a
soil engineer to tell us the proper way to fill the hole so that the
soil would be stable (remember it's very steep) and capable of
supporting a structure should we ever desire one on that tier.

Next step, we make an offer. The counter is far too high. I decide
to not waste time, so I attach an explanatory note to the next offer
that explains that the reason we think the house hasdn't sold in 10
months on the market (in an average market time of 90 days area) is
the pool. People who want a pool would be daunted by the sheer amount
of work required to rehabilitate the pool, and people who didn't want
one would be daunted by the amount of work required to reclaim the
land. Apparently the couple hadn't ever considered that. Of two
potential counters I offered them (they get a higher price but reclaim
the land the way we want it done within 6 months of closing OR we do
the work but pay a lower price) they choose to sell the house for a
lower price and we take care of the pool. Fine and dandy.

Enter the VA appraisor. He appraises the house for just a bit more
than agreed-upon price (good) BUT says the sellers have to either make
the pool operational again or fill it in before he can approve it.
Says it's a safety issue. Aargh! The seller wants to sell quite
badly, so they look at getting the pool filled in. They ask through
our agent if we'd kick in for the cost. They plan to just fill up the
pool with fill and fill dirt, leave the pool in the ground and the
concrete decking in place too. We say "No" to kicking in on it since
we'll then have to take all the damn stuff back OUT of the pool,
remove the pool and decking and then get a soil engineer in to help us
reclaim the land properly anyway - ending up as more work and cost for
us than the original plan. The sellers decide they really want to
sell so they go ahead anyway. The first contractor they contacted put
them off and eventually stopped returning their calls. By then the
first contract period was about to expire. We agreed to sign a
one-month extension, but also said we would not sign another one. We
were assured that the sellers would be closing by the 26th, because
they were going out of town then.

Time passes. Two days ago our agent calls and says their agent says
they haven't got the pool filled and it's because the contractor says
there has to be X number of dry days before they can get their truck
back in there and blah, blah, blah. In other words, they *still*
can't close. Not funny at all. I told our agent that if they
couldn't have it done by the 31st don't bother doing it on our
account. We were holding firm on the "no more extensions" statement.
Two months is enough time to get the job done - especially since they
were only going to do a fill-in. If it had been Howard and I we'd
have done it with pickup trucks and wheelbarrows, but it would have
been *done*. The message was sent to the sellers and they went out of
town for their trip. We are out two months of our time and the bank
fees to boot.

It almost cost us our present apartment too. The day after we heard
from our agent, I got a call from a lady at the cable company. She
wanted to know why she had an order for cable to be turned on at our
address when we hadn't cancelled ours yet. Did we forget to do it in
the middle of a move perhaps? Uh-oh. We had given notice at the
apartment based on the fact we'd been assured the closing would be by
the end of the month! We'd had no idea until the day before that the
deal would fall through. The apartment management had re-rented our
apartment (they're nice apartments and a great complex) with no
trouble at all. Well, it turns out that they had had an unexpected
vacancy earlier in the month - an eviction of a two bedroom. The
management completely re-did that one - new carpet, new ceramic floor
tiles, the works. The worst that would happen is we'd have to move to
the other apartment. The main difference is the one we're in is a
deluxe two-bedroom, with a laundry room instead of closet and a bigger
living area also. ~1000 sq feet total as opposed to the regular
two-bedroom with ~875 sq feet. The management tried to contact the
guy who was due to move into our apartment next week, but that ended
up being difficult because he is a soldier and in air assault school
(think going every minute and under tight controls). They finally got
hold of him this afternoon and *thankfully* he agreed to take the
regular two-bedroom apartment instead of ours.

I've come to the conclusion that one of Howard's oncologists had it
right when he asked us if we were crazy to go house-hunting in the
middle of Howard's chemo. We weren't when we started but I came close
the day the cable lady called! <G>

So....by next year I want to have a house. ;-)

Take care,
Carmen

well good luck! I hope you find what you are looking for!

If you lived where I live it's kind of like this:

For a half a million dollars you get:
100x100 ft if your are lucky, 2-3 bedrooms, 1-2 bathrooms (if you are
lucky), single or no garage. And you can expect to gut the kitchen and
bathroom(s), do new siding and new roof, replace the windows and doors
(interior and exterior) finish the basement if there is one, do landscaping
and brickwork (ie steps, retaining walls) and in our case we need to build a
deck, do a new patio, update all the electrical, add a heating zone...oh it
goes on and on! It's also a given that you will be refinishing the wood
floors or doing all new flooring. Gotta love Long Island!

Anyone ever see the Money Pit - LOL!

In article <[email hidden]>, "Dropped

30 said:

Whatcha doing and who's bein' what?

I have 3 parties saturday night, 1 on sunday and I am going to be a witch
-
the sort that would wear fishnet stockings ;-) I am able to wear a cute
costume for the 1st time in almost 5 years!!

DH will be Shaggy from scooby doo - even in that baggy outfit you can
tell
he lost 25lbs!

I have a rehearsal, and will not be doing much of anything, other than
dancing around. I will be in costume, but it doesn't look like costume
- it will be a set of formal cabaret wear for one portion of the show,
and a "normal person**" costume for the other part. **Note: Nothing
that THIS normal person would wear - the character I'm playing is a
"high school band director," and while I'm a music teacher, the director
and I have totally different ideas of what a high school band director
might wear. Then again, I'm not a hs band director - I'm a private
voice teacher, so he might be right.

--
Nancy Howells (don't forget to switch it, and replace the 😉 to send mail).

Hi

Dropped 30 said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Carmen, why is there a possibilty you wont have a house???

When Dropped 30 said she thought I lived in an apartment and was
looking to buy a house she was correct. The other part of the
story is that DH and I put an offer on a house the first few days
of
August.

Snip of tale of woe

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

So....by next year I want to have a house. ;-)

well good luck! I hope you find what you are looking for!

If you lived where I live it's kind of like this:

For a half a million dollars you get:
100x100 ft if your are lucky, 2-3 bedrooms, 1-2 bathrooms (if you
are lucky), single or no garage. And you can expect to gut the
kitchen
and bathroom(s), do new siding and new roof, replace the windows and
doors (interior and exterior) finish the basement if there is one,
do
landscaping and brickwork (ie steps, retaining walls) and in our
case we need to
build a deck, do a new patio, update all the electrical, add a
heating
zone...oh it goes on and on! It's also a given that you will be
refinishing the
wood floors or doing all new flooring. Gotta love Long Island!

Anyone ever see the Money Pit - LOL!

Eek! We couldn't afford a house on the Island on a soldier's salary -
even a 20 year man's. I lived in Huntington when I was a kid, and we
had a great house. I'd love to have that house. It's Craftsman style
and it was *huge*. Looking at some real estate sites for Huntington I
can't imagine what that house would go for today. It was a 2 story
with a basement and about a half acre lot. It had 2 bathrooms and 4
bedrooms, a formal dining room and livingroom downstairs, a sitting
room upstairs. There were two kitchens, the downstairs one was big
and it had an attached pantry, the upstairs one was small. Also there
was a two stall detached garage, a shed/playhouse with screened
windows and bunk beds and a shingled roof and a workshop between the
playhouse and the garage that my dad tore down. Looking at some real
estate sites it looks like it'd be in the 500 to 600 thousand range
now. Damn.

I hesitate to mention what the price on the house here in TN is. Ask
if you want to know. :-)

This morning brought the half-expected Hail Mary play from the
seller's agent. They'll rent us the place until we can close. We're
going to consider it. They *really* want to sell that house. :-)

Take care,
Carmen

"Carmen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hi

Dropped 30 said:

Quoted message said:

> Carmen, why is there a possibilty you wont have a house???

When Dropped 30 said she thought I lived in an apartment and was
looking to buy a house she was correct. The other part of the
story is that DH and I put an offer on a house the first few days
of
August.

Snip of tale of woe

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

So....by next year I want to have a house. ;-)

well good luck! I hope you find what you are looking for!

If you lived where I live it's kind of like this:

For a half a million dollars you get:
100x100 ft if your are lucky, 2-3 bedrooms, 1-2 bathrooms (if you
are lucky), single or no garage. And you can expect to gut the
kitchen
and bathroom(s), do new siding and new roof, replace the windows and
doors (interior and exterior) finish the basement if there is one,
do
landscaping and brickwork (ie steps, retaining walls) and in our
case we need to
build a deck, do a new patio, update all the electrical, add a
heating
zone...oh it goes on and on! It's also a given that you will be
refinishing the
wood floors or doing all new flooring. Gotta love Long Island!

Anyone ever see the Money Pit - LOL!

Eek! We couldn't afford a house on the Island on a soldier's salary -
even a 20 year man's. I lived in Huntington when I was a kid, and we
had a great house. I'd love to have that house. It's Craftsman style
and it was *huge*. Looking at some real estate sites for Huntington I
can't imagine what that house would go for today. It was a 2 story
with a basement and about a half acre lot. It had 2 bathrooms and 4
bedrooms, a formal dining room and livingroom downstairs, a sitting
room upstairs. There were two kitchens, the downstairs one was big
and it had an attached pantry, the upstairs one was small. Also there
was a two stall detached garage, a shed/playhouse with screened
windows and bunk beds and a shingled roof and a workshop between the
playhouse and the garage that my dad tore down. Looking at some real
estate sites it looks like it'd be in the 500 to 600 thousand range
now. Damn.

WOW! If it's in the nice part of Huntington (not Huntington Station) it is
probably closer to a million or over. It sounds like it was amazing!! The
houses near me are literally selling for 500k in the state I described!! And
that's not on the Gold Coast LOL

Quoted message said:

I hesitate to mention what the price on the house here in TN is. Ask
if you want to know. :-)

I'm sure it will make steam come out of my ears if I knew - better off not
knowing!!

Quoted message said:

This morning brought the half-expected Hail Mary play from the
seller's agent. They'll rent us the place until we can close. We're
going to consider it. They *really* want to sell that house. :-)

Take care,
Carmen

Good luck - it's a very fustrating process! We were lucky with timing and
bought when the market was still affordable here. The house has at least
double in "value"

Hi,

Dropped 30 said:

WOW! If it's in the nice part of Huntington (not Huntington Station)
it is probably closer to a million or over. It sounds like it was
amazing!! The houses near me are literally selling for 500k in the
state I
described!! And that's not on the Gold Coast LOL

Here's a map (on Mapquest) showing where the house is. When we left
it was just a nice middle class neighborhood:
http://tinyurl.com/3l9zn

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

This morning brought the half-expected Hail Mary play from the
seller's agent. They'll rent us the place until we can close.
We're going to consider it. They *really* want to sell that
house. :-)

Good luck - it's a very fustrating process! We were lucky with
timing and bought when the market was still affordable here. The
house has at
least double in "value"

Thank you. I'm afraid we're going to need patience far more than
luck. <G>

Take care,
Carmen

That could possibly work for you to do the necessary pool thing your way,
crediting the cost toward your rent/purchase price.

In news:[email hidden],
Carmen <[email hidden]> stated
|
| Eek! We couldn't afford a house on the Island on a soldier's salary -
| even a 20 year man's. I lived in Huntington when I was a kid, and we
| had a great house. I'd love to have that house. It's Craftsman style
| and it was *huge*. Looking at some real estate sites for Huntington I
| can't imagine what that house would go for today. It was a 2 story
| with a basement and about a half acre lot. It had 2 bathrooms and 4
| bedrooms, a formal dining room and livingroom downstairs, a sitting
| room upstairs. There were two kitchens, the downstairs one was big
| and it had an attached pantry, the upstairs one was small. Also there
| was a two stall detached garage, a shed/playhouse with screened
| windows and bunk beds and a shingled roof and a workshop between the
| playhouse and the garage that my dad tore down. Looking at some real
| estate sites it looks like it'd be in the 500 to 600 thousand range
| now. Damn.
|
| I hesitate to mention what the price on the house here in TN is. Ask
| if you want to know. :-)
|
| This morning brought the half-expected Hail Mary play from the
| seller's agent. They'll rent us the place until we can close. We're
| going to consider it. They *really* want to sell that house. :-)
|
| Take care,
| Carmen

"Carmen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hi,

Dropped 30 said:

WOW! If it's in the nice part of Huntington (not Huntington Station)
it is probably closer to a million or over. It sounds like it was
amazing!! The houses near me are literally selling for 500k in the
state I
described!! And that's not on the Gold Coast LOL

Here's a map (on Mapquest) showing where the house is. When we left
it was just a nice middle class neighborhood:
http://tinyurl.com/3l9zn

oooh, looks fancy! That Main St area is so nice and it's near the Country
Club - big $$ for sure!

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

This morning brought the half-expected Hail Mary play from the
seller's agent. They'll rent us the place until we can close.
We're going to consider it. They *really* want to sell that
house. :-)

Good luck - it's a very fustrating process! We were lucky with
timing and bought when the market was still affordable here. The
house has at
least double in "value"

Thank you. I'm afraid we're going to need patience far more than
luck. <G>

Take care,
Carmen

Hi,

Dropped 30 said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

WOW! If it's in the nice part of Huntington (not Huntington
Station) it is probably closer to a million or over. It sounds
like it was
amazing!! The houses near me are literally selling for 500k in
the state I described!! And that's not on the Gold Coast LOL

Here's a map (on Mapquest) showing where the house is. When we
left it was just a nice middle class neighborhood:
http://tinyurl.com/3l9zn

oooh, looks fancy! That Main St area is so nice and it's near the
Country
Club - big $$ for sure!

Oh, sure, NOW it is! <G>

Take care,
Carmen

Hi,
On 30-Oct-2004, Ignoramus12651 <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Congrats on buying the house! I hope that you won't need too many
repairs...

It's not for sure. DH and I thought about it some more. It would be
silly to move into the house this month unless it was due to closing
on it. Renting it would be silly, since there'd be less than a month
of time* left to close at move-in on a rental basis. (*Time to close
before the bank financing and all the other stuff's - like the
locked-in rate - time limit got reached) If they aren't ready to
close by the date proposed for rental move-in they may well not meet
the bank stuff's December 19th deadline.

Quoted message said:

House prices... My sister, who livesin a different area, paid about
35% more for her house than we did for ours. Ours is a 3 story house
(full finished basement, first floor, second floor, third floor, NOT
split level), with 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrood, 4 baths plus a spa, on
1/3 acre of land. Hers is a nice little 3 bedroom, two story house,
on
maybe 1/7 of an acre, barely some land near it, no basement. And
they paid a lot more for it!

Wow! A house with enough bathrooms in it! <G> Someone was thinking
on that one ;-).

Take care,
Carmen

Hi,

FOB said:

| This morning brought the half-expected Hail Mary play from the
| seller's agent. They'll rent us the place until we can close.
We're going to consider it. They *really* want to sell that house.
:-)

Quoted message said:

That could possibly work for you to do the necessary pool thing your
way, crediting the cost toward your rent/purchase price.

We decided not to rent the house. If they can't have the work
finished by the proposed rental move-in date (November 21st) there's a
good chance they wouldn't meet the financing deadline (December 19th).
Being their tenants at that point would be quite untenable. :-)

Take care,
Carmen