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[kiya]

Today was much with the parent-herding; not my parents, whispercricket's. I'm exhausted. Fortunately, no poly-drama erupted, thus, filed as success, if one that left me with a residual headache.

Nice early bedtime now. Was up way too early to clear the house for people-who-want-to-look-at-house. More people-who-want-to-look-at-house tomorrow, too. Maybe some of these people-who-want-to-look-at-house will want-to-buy-house and then we can start redirecting our stress entirely towards finding-new-house and buying-new-house.

Why is it that stuff I keep wanting to write about generally keeps coming out too personal? Meh.

Sleeeeeep.

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[surelars.livejournal.com]

Cleaning house for people-who-want-to-look-at-house - argh. It's just so frustrating to have it looming over your head all the time. I hope people-who-want-to-buy-house show up soon.

[kiya]

Gods, me too.

Thus far we've had two sets of people-who-want-to-look-at (one more this afternoon), one just starting their looking, so we don't know what'll come of that, one who was very, 'Well, this'll take a lot of work, the kitchen is terrible (Editorial note: we know that) and the floors ....' To which teinedreugan said something to the effect of, "They think this house is work-intensive? They haven't been looking at the crud we've been looking at ...."

I just want it done. Or to run away to Montreal until it's safe to come back.

[surelars.livejournal.com]

I understand the "I just want it done bit". 4 years ago we ended up just buying the house we wanted and move, and let people-who-want-to-look see the empty apartment. The real estate agent said that was a bad move and would hurt the price. We just couldn't be bothered to stay until people-who-want-to-buy turned up.

[kiya]

I wish we had the option for that, honestly; I'm stressed enough that I'd say "Put in an offer on the one we've looked at that's acceptable and see if they accept it" and just go.

Though the acceptable one is 'for value of needs serious work before moving in' levels of acceptable, so that's just a different bucket of augh.

Must look at more houses and also become less neurotic.

[surelars.livejournal.com]

Though the acceptable one is 'for value of needs serious work before moving in' levels of acceptable, so that's just a different bucket of augh.

Yeah. The house we bought cost me about 3 months of more or less all non-work time I had, plus a hefty draw on the friends-who-owe-me-one account in order to make it passable. We managed, though, since we where just moving across town and hence could stay in the old apartment during those 3 months.

Must look at more houses and also become less neurotic.

The former is far easier than the latter ;-)

[kiya]

I wouldn't be surprised if we wind up putting our life in storage units and crashing at some combination of friends and/or partners' places while finalising wherever we wind up going to.

The currently acceptable one is right by partners' place, but needs major electrical, roof, siding work ....

The former is far easier than the latter ;-)

Yes, yes it is.

[surelars.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be surprised if we wind up putting our life in storage units and crashing at some combination of friends and/or partners' places while finalising wherever we wind up going to.

Sounds like a good plan if that's possible. I'm all for putting in a big effort before moving in; but then, I know that once moved in, I'll get used to whatever, so things will stall.

Friend of mine purchased a "major project" four years ago. He and partner moved in right away, and have been living in a construction site since. There's always a currently-inhabitable part of the site. it just changes all the time. All the construction work is DIY. Oh, and they gone and had a baby twice during that time.

I don't think I'd have survived.

[kiya]

Wow, that sounds really crazy-making to me too.

We did a lot of work on this house post-moving-in, but most of it was cosmetic-level stuff -- stripping wallpaper and repainting type. Not, y'know, major project level construction.