House hunting

[gement]

Belated announcement, we talked to the landlord and he's not dropping the rent. Looking at local prices, his position is totally legit. And I'm still done being the primary person in a landlord-tenant relationship that leads to my ranting for 45 minutes at a time about his faulty memory, complete inattention to detail, and attitude toward code (which is to say, he doesn't believe in making sure anything is to code ever).

So we are moving, as soon as we can find a suitable place, which might be rent or buy, but I don't have to worry about it anymore, because miracle of miracles, my housemate-sister is running a business. It turns out she's been independently running a business for a couple of years.

It turns out this means she's gotten past a lot of the family phone and paperwork dread, and has just... started taking point on checking all the listings and booking us for house viewings.

I hadn't realized how heavy that weight was until it was lifted. I'd dragged my feet on looking at listings for over a month, because I'm almost ten years tired of being the person who does that and suddenly, oh. I don't have to be the one that does that forever?

Oh.

So anyway, we have our eye on a house with one more bedroom for more money when we thought we were looking for one less bedroom for less money, but it's only four blocks away and looks fantastic, so we hope we get it. It's like a maintenance and layout upgrade on our existing everything. We'll see. Thanks be to the person following up leads so I don't have to.

Comments

[gement.livejournal.com]

I have longed for a Ianto.

[mimerki.livejournal.com]

When I was getting divorced, ironymaiden took it upon herself to do 90% of the listing-hunting for me. She'd send me lists of links with brief descriptions. Just knowing that someone else had already screened the listings was an immense help. (Plus the emotional support side and all that.)

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Terrific news! And I'm glad you won't be moving out of (long) walking distance from me.