| A year later
Ah yes, we chose the rent and loose option. No buyers, no new house, all the work of owning a house without the advantages. I don't think houses will sell well for another year. There are too many people who need so desperatly to sell that they will drop the price to any level to get out. If housing prices drop much more it may pay to double down on the bet that prices can't stay low forever. |
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Life is like "Deal or No Deal". Here you see our comfortable, large, covered patio outside a house I could not afford if I were buying it today. It is 80 miles from the apartment we live in to be close to my work. Four years to planned retirement. Nobody currently looking at houses in that area. None in six weeks. None. The cost of selling, almost half a year's wages. Choice 1: Continue as is, eating slowly into savings and living in tight quarters Choice 2: Buy second small house near work and fix it up, putting off decision of where to retire. Choice 3: Get out at any cost, hoping to buy a good place and save money |
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The garden year 3. |
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My office, just a few hours before the room was empty. Chances are it won't get assembled again. Eight foot ceilings would give a person claustraphobia with only a foot and a half of clearance to sleep in. Maybe a sailor used to three decker hammocks. I may be dating myself. It took hours to dsimantle. |
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|  Proof that St Helens is still there 40 miles over the horizon, and still spouting steam, building the dome inside the bowl. It was a rainy Winter in Washington (not DC) |
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