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Home again
Sep. 14th, 2008 07:25 pmHome again, sadly. Unpacked. Laundry done. Ready for work tomorrow. (Didn't miss work at all, btw.) The Goofy Cat, who had plenty of food, water and clean litter, was howling like a starving beast when I came in the front door. Because she wanted wet food, not that nasty dry stuff she'd been forced to subsist on the for the week. And I think she missed me, too, because she's been rather clingy, which is unlike her.
Big news in the neighborhood? The house next door is for sale...again. I came home to an open house, with the open house sign sitting in front of *my* house. According to one of my neighbors, the realtor has had a few showings this week. And the price? $349K. Which is a huge, huge drop from the original asking price three years ago ($485K). It was way overpriced at the time, and sat on the market for nearly a year with not even hint of interest; since then there have been two tenants, each for a year lease. Well, more than two tenants actually -- a group of four women just out of college who worked for a travel company, gone a lot and partied a lot when they were home, and a group of young men slightly older. I'm curious to see how it goes this time; even with the slower real estate market, stuff in my neighborhood is still moving, although that price is still a bit high. The average price is the neighborhood is about $270,000 for rehabbed two storey houses. This one is three storeys, the only one on the block.
Big news in the neighborhood? The house next door is for sale...again. I came home to an open house, with the open house sign sitting in front of *my* house. According to one of my neighbors, the realtor has had a few showings this week. And the price? $349K. Which is a huge, huge drop from the original asking price three years ago ($485K). It was way overpriced at the time, and sat on the market for nearly a year with not even hint of interest; since then there have been two tenants, each for a year lease. Well, more than two tenants actually -- a group of four women just out of college who worked for a travel company, gone a lot and partied a lot when they were home, and a group of young men slightly older. I'm curious to see how it goes this time; even with the slower real estate market, stuff in my neighborhood is still moving, although that price is still a bit high. The average price is the neighborhood is about $270,000 for rehabbed two storey houses. This one is three storeys, the only one on the block.
