Hey, an update!
Jun. 5th, 2009 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
av8rmikeI haven't talked about this much (or anything else over the last few weeks), but I've been looking at houses to buy. More specifically, Jamie has been here for the last three weeks and we've been looking at houses together. We have looked in four separate Baltimore neighborhoods and will be looking in a fifth tomorrow morning.
So far, all we've found out is that 1) there aren't a lot of houses to buy in our current neighborhood that aren't condos, and 2) there are a lot of nice, completely refurbished houses all over the city, but many are in neighborhoods that are either inconvenient for me or are kind of sketchy at certain hours. We don't really relish the idea of living in the suburbs yet, because we like living in an area where we can walk to so many places (stores, restaurants, concert venues, etc.). Hell, I hardly know if I can even afford the down payment or monthly payments that would be required.
We were this close (-> <-) to putting a deposit down on an as-yet unbuilt townhouse in an as-yet unbuilt sub-division on the edge of the city. Then we went home and did a little investigation of the homebuilder and found all kinds of reports ranging from cost-cutting on the materials to shoddy building practices to mold/mildew problems to lengthy contracts if you accept financing from the builder. After all that, we dumped their brochures in the recycling bin and never looked back.
One other thing is for sure: for two people who are both LiveJournal users, we could have been keeping better track of what we liked and disliked about each property. We've learned that after seeing 3-4 in a day, they all start to run together in your head.
So far, all we've found out is that 1) there aren't a lot of houses to buy in our current neighborhood that aren't condos, and 2) there are a lot of nice, completely refurbished houses all over the city, but many are in neighborhoods that are either inconvenient for me or are kind of sketchy at certain hours. We don't really relish the idea of living in the suburbs yet, because we like living in an area where we can walk to so many places (stores, restaurants, concert venues, etc.). Hell, I hardly know if I can even afford the down payment or monthly payments that would be required.
We were this close (-> <-) to putting a deposit down on an as-yet unbuilt townhouse in an as-yet unbuilt sub-division on the edge of the city. Then we went home and did a little investigation of the homebuilder and found all kinds of reports ranging from cost-cutting on the materials to shoddy building practices to mold/mildew problems to lengthy contracts if you accept financing from the builder. After all that, we dumped their brochures in the recycling bin and never looked back.
One other thing is for sure: for two people who are both LiveJournal users, we could have been keeping better track of what we liked and disliked about each property. We've learned that after seeing 3-4 in a day, they all start to run together in your head.
