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May. 24th, 2022 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soniaOgod the news out of Texas. Can we be a better version of humanity please. The amount of lifelong trauma in dozens of people one person can cause in a few minutes. In addition to the lives cut short. I want to believe we can do better, in the face of terrible evidence to the contrary.
Also, apparently monkeypox is a real thing, not an ironic joke. (As usual withsiderea's posts, the comments are also worth reading.)
In my own life, all is well except that so far no one has made an offer on my house in Portland. I'm not sure if that's because I waited just a bit too long to sell and the interest rates went up, or no one wants a house in a wonderful neighborhood with an ordinary (not recently remodeled) kitchen and bathroom, or if there are other mysterious forces at work.
It's true that the house has inconveniences - steep stairs to the second floor, no bathroom up there, and slanted walls in parts of the two bedrooms since they're right under the roof. On the one hand I feel validated about being done with living there after 17 years, and on the other hand I'm surprised that of all the people going to look at it, no one wants it. I was under the impression that it's a seller's market, shortage of inventory, blah blah.
I feel extremely lucky that I like this apartment I'm renting, so it's not urgent to sell the house to get the money to buy something here. I'm starting to look into renting it out, since I don't want it to just sit there. This is not what I had in mind, and at the same time, the main part of the move is done. I live in California now. Perhaps this will still all work out for the best.
Also, apparently monkeypox is a real thing, not an ironic joke. (As usual with
siderea's posts, the comments are also worth reading.)In my own life, all is well except that so far no one has made an offer on my house in Portland. I'm not sure if that's because I waited just a bit too long to sell and the interest rates went up, or no one wants a house in a wonderful neighborhood with an ordinary (not recently remodeled) kitchen and bathroom, or if there are other mysterious forces at work.
It's true that the house has inconveniences - steep stairs to the second floor, no bathroom up there, and slanted walls in parts of the two bedrooms since they're right under the roof. On the one hand I feel validated about being done with living there after 17 years, and on the other hand I'm surprised that of all the people going to look at it, no one wants it. I was under the impression that it's a seller's market, shortage of inventory, blah blah.
I feel extremely lucky that I like this apartment I'm renting, so it's not urgent to sell the house to get the money to buy something here. I'm starting to look into renting it out, since I don't want it to just sit there. This is not what I had in mind, and at the same time, the main part of the move is done. I live in California now. Perhaps this will still all work out for the best.
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Date: 2022-05-25 11:49 pm (UTC)Ughhh, real estate is, as befits a capitalist hellscape, unknowable. I do know it’s ripe with oracular mutterings -- seller's market, shortage of inventory. And then when something actual happens, it's on the most irritating time schedule: you must make your choices in minutes for a lifelong debt.
Wish I had reassurance. My two home-buying interactions were hurry-up-and-wait. The first place our mortgage was 14% -- 1983 wasn't a great time to buy a house!