Actually, I know of an adorable 1949 bungalo in a quiet area of town. About 1000 square feet on the main floor with the same below in a partially finished basement (which has another room we use as a bedroom, but because it's only got those little basement windows we can't sell it as one) as well as a huge storage room, laundry room with pantry and a rec room.
Hardwood floors everywhere but the kitchen (lineoleum) and bathroom (ceramic stone-look tile) upstairs. Detatched single car garage that's been converted into a shop.
The only drawback (And what basically drove us to look for a change) is the neighbors on both sides have punk-ass kids with attitudes and criminal tendencies and at least the potential of mental problems. Somehow, the idea of you moving in here just made me smile, and not in my normally nice way. I'd love to see them when they realize that Papa Smith is the new owner. :)
But seriously, if you're looking for something similar, let us know and we'll show you the place. We'll probably be putting it on the market in the next week or so and could afford to lower the price to split what a realtor would have cost us in fees if we sold it before we hired one.
I should be down in the area either Friday or Saturday and would love to take a look. I might be able to arrange financing if it would be a good fit.
Besides after some of the places I have had to live over the years I think there will be little problem dealing with a couple of wigger punk ass adolescent bitches in very short order.
The big question is do their parents give a shit at all about their get? If so it wraps up quick. If not it wraps up a little bit slower...but still wraps up one way or the other in the end.
Drop us a line (jess at jesshartley dot com) and I'll send you our phone number. We've got Autumn's school carnival friday night, and I've got a book signing/event early saturday morning but other than that we'll be around (and the thing Friday night won't run too late). We'd love to show you the place (Although the front yard and such are not yet up to what I'd like them to be before we put it "out to show".)
The parents are, on one side, a likely mentally diseased/disabled woman trying to raise 3 kids on her own with not nearly enough social skills (but she's related to the off-site owner in some way, so likely won't move) and, on the other side, a mostly-absent mom with a possible live-in boyfriend. They do give a shit, but have pretty much lost control of the 11 year old. Flat out told me to call the cops last time he and his friend were tearing up saplings down the street.
Don't get me wrong, there are some /great/ folks in the neighborhood too. And, for the most part, even the negative stuff is low level. No guns, no rampant vandalism, and the breakins stopped several years ago when one of the older kids went to jail for almost a year.
But with us having a 10 year old daughter, I just don't like the kinds of kids who are bracketing us on each side, and I wouldn't sell the house to a friend without being straight with them about it.
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Re: See how you are....
Date: 2005-04-20 02:04 am (UTC)Hardwood floors everywhere but the kitchen (lineoleum) and bathroom (ceramic stone-look tile) upstairs. Detatched single car garage that's been converted into a shop.
The only drawback (And what basically drove us to look for a change) is the neighbors on both sides have punk-ass kids with attitudes and criminal tendencies and at least the potential of mental problems. Somehow, the idea of you moving in here just made me smile, and not in my normally nice way. I'd love to see them when they realize that Papa Smith is the new owner. :)
But seriously, if you're looking for something similar, let us know and we'll show you the place. We'll probably be putting it on the market in the next week or so and could afford to lower the price to split what a realtor would have cost us in fees if we sold it before we hired one.
Re: See how you are....
Date: 2005-04-20 03:57 am (UTC)Besides after some of the places I have had to live over the years I think there will be little problem dealing with a couple of wigger punk ass adolescent bitches in very short order.
The big question is do their parents give a shit at all about their get? If so it wraps up quick. If not it wraps up a little bit slower...but still wraps up one way or the other in the end.
Re: See how you are....
Date: 2005-04-20 04:06 am (UTC)The parents are, on one side, a likely mentally diseased/disabled woman trying to raise 3 kids on her own with not nearly enough social skills (but she's related to the off-site owner in some way, so likely won't move) and, on the other side, a mostly-absent mom with a possible live-in boyfriend. They do give a shit, but have pretty much lost control of the 11 year old. Flat out told me to call the cops last time he and his friend were tearing up saplings down the street.
Don't get me wrong, there are some /great/ folks in the neighborhood too. And, for the most part, even the negative stuff is low level. No guns, no rampant vandalism, and the breakins stopped several years ago when one of the older kids went to jail for almost a year.
But with us having a 10 year old daughter, I just don't like the kinds of kids who are bracketing us on each side, and I wouldn't sell the house to a friend without being straight with them about it.