Easy

Today's been easy for the most part. The LW and I had a bit of a rocky start, but all is well now that I'm keeping my mouth shut. The LW took CP to the Festival of Books down at the U today and they had a good time. CP got to see Clifford, Stellaluna, and Curious George.

We haven't had anyone look at the house today, but yesterday a young chap came by with his realtor, then came back to meet us and tell us how much he liked what we have done with the house. He said that what we've done is exactly what he'd do. It was encouraging and he said that he'd drive back by with his brother later. Well, we were out in the yard around sundown and saw someone at the foreclosure next door and checked it out - he had come back with his brother. We talked for a minute and he mentioned that his grandmother lives in the neighborhood. I recognized the name immediately as friends from the gardens and said, "Really?!, you're Joe's grandson?". His brother just stood there for a second with a stunned look on his face and then we all had a good laugh about serendipity. They all got to walk through the house and look around before heading over to grandma's for dinner. At any rate, we hope that he'll put an offer in on the house. We'd really like for it to go to someone nice as opposed to a flipper or slumlord.

We've changed tack a bit for the future in KC. Not about moving there, but about what we'll move into. We've had our eyes on a couple of foreclosures in an older part of Mission that are roughly the same size, above ground, as our house here, but on larger lots. I know that I'll catch crap from my folks about not having a 3000sf house with 3 bathrooms or some other silliness, but that's just them. The house that we're looking at on the web is a 2/1 on 1/3rd acre that is listed at $89k. The big thing is that it has a full basement. The LW and I can't really imagine having basically another open house space that's the same size as what we have here. I'll get a darkroom for sure! We're hoping that I'll be able to finance it so that we can get the 1st time buyer credit from 'teh gubment'. Our plan is to live in it and fix it for the required three years, then buy something else in the same area and rent the other house. I figure with a $600 house payment, we'll be ahead of the game if we play our cards right.