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Well after dark - almost 10 pm. It is 82 degrees, 58% humidity here in Austin. It is 72 degrees, 33% humidity in Baltimore proper, and it is down to 64 degrees in the suburb of Columbia.

I have spent a large chunk of today looking at apartments on line. Since it doesn't look like this house will sell before we leave, let alone close, we will have to rent someplace in MD for a few months. Luckily, there seem to be lots of places that are willing to offer 3-month leases, and pets allowed! Have sent off information requests - along with scouting out a few more online MLS listings. Have discovered a couple more really close-in suburbs, such as Windsor Mill. We shall see...

Lowered the price on the house from $449.9K to $429.9K. Hope this attracts more people!

Current Mood: hopeful

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bunrab.livejournal.com

Look at it this way though - you could rent out part of it. We rented out the two rooms and bathroom, without a kitchen, for $350 a month, and that was way underpriced. Even without a kitchen, you could ask for $500 a month for those two rooms, since it's all utilities included. And judging by our experience, it would rent out about 4 seconds after the ad is placed in the Chronicle.

An investment of about $2000 to put in a kitchenette - pretty cheap, since the plumbing under the house is so easy to get at compared to most houses - and you could rent it for $600+.

Or the alternative, if it's people you know and can stand - those upstairs rooms. Not difficult at all to install an outside stairs to the upstairs balcony (and a railing around the balcony, for liability's sake), and rent out that room, which is huge, with its master bathroom and all. Depending on who you got to do the stairs and the railing, a few hundred dollars, and that room, with a refrigerator and microwave, is larger than some apartments, and for a nice quiet grad student who wasn't planning on cooking anything that couldn't be cooked in a microwave, it would be great - you could ask for $350 a month for THAT and make back the cost of the stairs in a couple months.

Of course, don't forget taxes and insurance on the mortgage - those will add, I regret to say, almost $800 a month to the payment. Unless you go ahead and complete the city historic application process, which takes 6 months, but the house easily qualifies, and then that cuts the taxes in half or more. Whee.

No, this is not a starter house.

On the other hand, for you, if you offered us only $415,000, we'd take it, and you would only need a $355,000 mortgage!

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evilsithlady.livejournal.com

Hi, BunRab. Are you on the PetBunny list? You are moving from Texas to Maryland? I'm SA's mommy - feel free to e-mail me privately off the list, if you are on the PetBunny list.

If not, that's okay. I like to get to know other folks who love bunnies. How many do you have? Are you traveling here by car? I hope you will make a smooth transition into your new surroundings :)

I live in Northern VA, if you're wondering.

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bunrab.livejournal.com

Yes, I get petbunny, but I haven't had time to read it lately. I usually participate in the rabbit christmas card exchange!

We are travelling from Austin to Catonsville by RV, with 3 rabbits, 3 guinea pigs, 2 chinchillas, a bird, and a cat with us!! And 4 computers and 4 musical instruments: tuba, euphonium, tenor sax, baritone sax. All much easier to transport ourselves than to try and ship safely, and certainly they wouldn't all fit in a car. So we are renting a 29-foot RV. It'll actually be sorta fun!

Right now, I am so overwhelmed with details, can we wait till I successfully get to MD before I try and get in touch? I just don't feel like I can remember one more single thing right now!

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landley.livejournal.com

I'm honored, but we just can't afford it.

Trading in my condo which is 2/3 paid off for a bigger place while holding down a full-time job that I have 10 years of experience doing puts Fade and me a little beyond "starter house". However, your place is way beyond starter house and I have no idea how YOU guys managed to pay for it. (Even with both of you working, and renting out part of it. The taxes alone are more than my place costs me per month, and I pay condo association fees...)

If the $100/hour thing had been full time, then sure. But it was very very part time, and I'm making noticeably less than that per hour at my new job...

Rob

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Even without a kitchen, you could ask for $500 a month for those two rooms, since it's all utilities included. And judging by our experience, it would rent out about 4 seconds after the ad is placed in the Chronicle.

You've got to be kidding. I've never paid over $600 and ALWAYS had a kitchen. Who are these people? Apparently people with a wad of cash and no use for food.