Home Sweet What?

Well, we dived back into the house hunt. It's a real rollercoaster. Finding houses at all has been tricky ... as I mentioned before, the ones with a little land are crappy houses; and the nice houses have little city lots. It's been hard to find anything even worth going to see.

We looked at two this weekend. One had great land (8 acres wooded, with a beautiful large lawn) but the house was nasty. Needed a ton of work, and they wanted way too much for it, for the work it needed. The second house was gorgeous, so beautiful I was tempted to make an offer on it right away. But the back yard wasn't really as big as we would have liked, and not private at all - the back yards of the neighbors on three sides were just right there, in your face. After some major waffling, we decided we'd never be really happy with that yard. And the property was on almost half an acre, but the way it was set up, most of it was front yard, and just not workable for us.

So we've modified our search parameters again - upped the property size to an acre or more, but lowered the required bedrooms from 4 to 3 (since 4 bedroom homes on a decent size lot are hard to find and mostly out of our price range). We'll continue the hunt.

The good news is that my buyer still wants to buy my house, for cash, and is willing to wait awhile at least for us to find a new home. I just hope we can find one before he loses interest!

Nothing else has been going on. No knitting, no projects of any kind. I was sick most of the weekend, in fact left work early Friday, and now have a disaster to deal with tomorrow (deadline work I didn't get done Friday because of leaving sick). But that doesn't bear thinking about tonight.