I don’t know if I can handle this whole “house buying” thing. (Sorry, I don’t want to turn this blog into Nathan’s Story of Buying a House, but it is the main thing going on in my life right now.) If you haven’t even gone through the process, I would recommend not starting. And if you have gone through the process, why the hell would you ever want to do this again?
Finding the house was easy. I basically just pointed and said yes. Even getting the loan wasn’t that bad. I basically just went and saw a guy and said yes. But now I’m getting into the nitty gritty. I had my inspection, and of course they found stuff that was wrong. Like big scary stuff. At least, it sounds big and scary to me. So now I’m having to get quotes on how much that is going to cost to fix.
And I’m also trying to get homeowner’s insurance. But because the house has old wiring, and my insurance agent isn’t calling me back, that’s proving to be very difficult.
Nothing in this whole process happens at the speed that I would like, and no one responds to me as quickly as I would like, and nothing is quite as good as I would like. So I’m just very unhappy, and trying not to think about it.
I can probably deal with this for another month…
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welcome to a world of things you can’t control, but can control you
it’ll all be a blur, but you’ll end up sitting on your own couch watching your own TV stressing about your own bills and you’ll be kinda happy. Ownership does feel good. Even when it sucks.
When you buy a house of a certain age, it’s normal that you have to replace wiring, plumbing, parts of the roof, and many other things.
Now you know the meaning of the notion TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) >;-)
Have your builder’s quote, show it to the bank, get a loan for it with a low interest rate because you will invest it in the house. Banks love these loans because they increase the value of the property, which makes their mortgage less risky.
Please don’t panic, it’s “all in the game”.
Sadly that is the real world where nothihng is ever easy. I am still trying to get the paper work settled over GIVING my old van away.
Fix my room up nice.