UGH! It POURED! Big time as we drove down to London. Rained all the way. Sometimes it was blinding rain. Was stressful, but we made it in perfect time. The first house was so perfect. Exactly what we wanted, but it backed onto a major road - that continuous noise would not be healing for me. I wish we could have moved the house to another location. It was only 14 yrs old, and sparkly clean, neat and well maintained.
The second house that we liked was lovely. Older, nice, on a quiet street. Backed onto houses with kids. (not really for me) Was a bit more run down, but still lovely. Wrong location too. Was in another city, as we drove around the city there we realized this was not for us. There was no real place for AJ to go - even though it had transit. Both houses were on the high end of our pricing. First one we would have to go a bit over to get the bid thru (per the agent), the other would cost us too much to fix it up in a way that would work for us. So we let both go. And drove home. Mostly ok drive, some rain, and more traffic. Picked Jax up at 5pm. Left at 7am.
We stopped at Tim's for dinner. Last night I didn't sleep well - had about 2 - 3 hour sleeps. Then 2 - 3 hour drives. I did bring IP shakes, and meal replacement bar. Did end up at Tim's too for chili/bagel/donut/cookie. Frozen cherries and IP snack bar at home. The shakes and meal replacement bar were helpful. Tim's wasn't a good choice, but I was so wiped/spaced out I went to food to keep awake. I can see that being off IP/Poon will be challenging for me - especially at the moment.
Our current house is listed - as of yesterday. Today I'm already ready to lower the price as we have listed very high. I could cry on wanting it sold, and I am stressed over the waiting and the uncontrollable/unknown guessing price. Our buying also hings on how much we get from the sale of the house. We could go a bit higher if we sell higher, but if we go lower then we have to buy lower of course.
When we got home tonight....there were new houses listed. And there were 2 well within our lower price! They looked perfect, and the location looked good too. Ugh. Now what. I had thought when we drove home that we would back off looking until we sold, but these houses are in our price range - do we let them go and hope for others in our price, or go and look? I know there will always be houses. At first we were thinking of driving down tomorrow again, or on the weekend. We decided we will go on Tuesday. If the houses are gone, then they weren't for us. They do need some work from what we can see. We also decided we needed to see around 5 houses - otherwise we will wait.
I called my mother yesterday and told her we were moving / and why. Eventually she was semi-ok. My sister emailed me a very, very short email that said good luck. She sounded pissed/upset about it, probably because it upset mom. Wonderful - no wonder I didn't want to say anything to them. AJ's family was much better about the move - they were more acceptable about it.
Well that's about it for the moment. This house is perfectly clean....it's pouring rain out.....Jax is wiped (from all that doggy daycare playing today)....... I'm very full and tired and there's nothing I can do but wait for the next move. ha ha ha
Night.
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