We've seen some nice houses, and been too late/too poor to buy them. Mostly too late, which is actually more frustrating! But we keep looking at the new things that crop up on the market. Syracuse is a unique market in the US, as the prices are NOT over-inflated (never were, really) and houses are still selling quite healthily--which means that any time something good crops up, it's gone quickly!
The most disturbing house we've seen yet is probably the one advertised as 1.5 baths. One bathroom was a toilet in a closet. Seriously. I didn't even see it--apparently because I forgot to open the "closet" in that bedroom. In the same house, the former owners? tenants? had left their entire collection of empty liquor bottles--some expensive stuff!--and also (among the trash they left on the kitchen counter) a brochure about the WIC food-assistance program. Fear not, most of the houses we've seen have been much better!
In other news, many congratulations to![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ktkendrick, the first of my LJ-enabled friends to have a baby this summer! (I'm sure she's too busy to be reading this any time soon, but we're still delighted)
Lastly, the more-than-a-little eclectic book meme:
The most disturbing house we've seen yet is probably the one advertised as 1.5 baths. One bathroom was a toilet in a closet. Seriously. I didn't even see it--apparently because I forgot to open the "closet" in that bedroom. In the same house, the former owners? tenants? had left their entire collection of empty liquor bottles--some expensive stuff!--and also (among the trash they left on the kitchen counter) a brochure about the WIC food-assistance program. Fear not, most of the houses we've seen have been much better!
In other news, many congratulations to
ktkendrick, the first of my LJ-enabled friends to have a baby this summer! (I'm sure she's too busy to be reading this any time soon, but we're still delighted)Lastly, the more-than-a-little eclectic book meme:
( book meme )
