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Our offer was turned down, on that house in Gray. So. Back to looking. Although really we're not going to do a lot of physical looking for a couple of weeks, as we need to catch up on some things this weekend in preparation for my brother, Hawk, coming to visit next weekend.
We were debating, last night, if it would make more sense just to buy a cheap condo in town. We like living in town a lot - the nearness of everything, etc. There's two condos still available which we looked at a month ago - A) a cheaper one in a building which has no character and is inhabited by a lot of college age subletters who might be partyers, and B) a more expensive one in an older building inhabited mostly by owners which is kind of cool and quirky and could use a little work. They're only around the corner from each other, and the neighborhood is not great (Mellen and Grant streets, for those of you who are local). I'd rather live in the older building, of course, but the cheap one has the advantage of being cheap. We'd have a chance of actually owning it completely in something like a conceivable time frame, and even before that we'd be spending little enough on it that we could still be putting money aside. If we get ourselves into the condo with more character we might have a harder time getting a house, later. (The condo in Freeport went right out of this equation, because, even though it's got that huge, lovely kitchen and two parking spaces, it IS in Freeport, home of the latte slurpers, there's little culture there we have interest in taking part in, and it's price would be so high we'd have no chance of moving on unless we fell into a pile of money later on.)
Of course we'd still be in the same state as far as needing to keep our music down and searching for parking, though we're considering renting a parking space in the garage which took all our money during parking bans this winter. Not that I want to give them more money, the sons a'hoars. Did I mention that they used to have a $10 overnight deal for parking ban nights, but they got rid of it this year because they decided to cut down on staff and installed a machine which is a complete pain in the ass and now it costs $20 to stay overnight? I probably did, since it pissed me off so much. Still, they're the only game in this part of town. (The Maine Medical Center garage is only for patients and visitors.) I was hoping to get these annoyances resolved this spring, and going through the annoyance of moving and still not resolving the other annoyances really grates on me.
We were debating, last night, if it would make more sense just to buy a cheap condo in town. We like living in town a lot - the nearness of everything, etc. There's two condos still available which we looked at a month ago - A) a cheaper one in a building which has no character and is inhabited by a lot of college age subletters who might be partyers, and B) a more expensive one in an older building inhabited mostly by owners which is kind of cool and quirky and could use a little work. They're only around the corner from each other, and the neighborhood is not great (Mellen and Grant streets, for those of you who are local). I'd rather live in the older building, of course, but the cheap one has the advantage of being cheap. We'd have a chance of actually owning it completely in something like a conceivable time frame, and even before that we'd be spending little enough on it that we could still be putting money aside. If we get ourselves into the condo with more character we might have a harder time getting a house, later. (The condo in Freeport went right out of this equation, because, even though it's got that huge, lovely kitchen and two parking spaces, it IS in Freeport, home of the latte slurpers, there's little culture there we have interest in taking part in, and it's price would be so high we'd have no chance of moving on unless we fell into a pile of money later on.)
Of course we'd still be in the same state as far as needing to keep our music down and searching for parking, though we're considering renting a parking space in the garage which took all our money during parking bans this winter. Not that I want to give them more money, the sons a'hoars. Did I mention that they used to have a $10 overnight deal for parking ban nights, but they got rid of it this year because they decided to cut down on staff and installed a machine which is a complete pain in the ass and now it costs $20 to stay overnight? I probably did, since it pissed me off so much. Still, they're the only game in this part of town. (The Maine Medical Center garage is only for patients and visitors.) I was hoping to get these annoyances resolved this spring, and going through the annoyance of moving and still not resolving the other annoyances really grates on me.