offer on house woo hoo woo hoo!
Jul. 9th, 2005 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunrabWe have received an offer on the house in Austin. Only just viable - it's the absolute minimum we could possibly stand - but it's viable, and she's offering a really early settlement date - July 29. We'd net a tiny bit less than the house we've offered on here, so we'll have to draw some of S's deferred comp funds to cover the difference. But it means that we can move right along. Wooooo!!
Here's the house we've offered on here:
http://homes.longandfoster.com/Buy_Home/Search/Property_Details.aspx?coId=2&mlsNum=BC5208233
There are 11 pizza places within a nearby distance!! Public transportation. Almost as easy access to the interstate as our old house. Easy to find - those of you coming to visit will be able to find us EASILY.
The disadvantages of this house: the living room is pretty small. The carpeting is ugleeeeee. It's not as large as our ideal. There's no garage. The back yard is too big and will need lots of mowing.
The advantages: the finished basement is about 800 square feet, a great secondary living room if a bit informal. There's both covered and uncovered patio space out back. There's a covered front porch. It will be quite easy to build a carport over the driveway. There's already a storage shed out back. The attic is finished into a large open space with its own bathroom, which will serve as both guest bedroom and extra book space. It has central air conditioning, which is not as common here as you might think.
OK. We can stop and breathe for a few minutes. Of course, this means we won't ever get as far unpacked as the armchair in this apartment... I will have to keep doing my knitting and crocheting in a dining chair. Oh well.
In other news - there is no other news. I am going to go read some science fiction; my dad is having some surgery in a couple of weeks and will have to stay flat on his back in bed for several days, so I have promised to send him a chunk of SF books. Gotta get moving on that. Got a chunk of mystery and romance books for Cindy for her new library branch - to make it cost effective to mail them back to Austin, even with Media Mail rates, gotta have more though - at least 20. So, less crochet, more read. I can do that.
Here's the house we've offered on here:
http://homes.longandfoster.com/Buy_Home/Search/Property_Details.aspx?coId=2&mlsNum=BC5208233
There are 11 pizza places within a nearby distance!! Public transportation. Almost as easy access to the interstate as our old house. Easy to find - those of you coming to visit will be able to find us EASILY.
The disadvantages of this house: the living room is pretty small. The carpeting is ugleeeeee. It's not as large as our ideal. There's no garage. The back yard is too big and will need lots of mowing.
The advantages: the finished basement is about 800 square feet, a great secondary living room if a bit informal. There's both covered and uncovered patio space out back. There's a covered front porch. It will be quite easy to build a carport over the driveway. There's already a storage shed out back. The attic is finished into a large open space with its own bathroom, which will serve as both guest bedroom and extra book space. It has central air conditioning, which is not as common here as you might think.
OK. We can stop and breathe for a few minutes. Of course, this means we won't ever get as far unpacked as the armchair in this apartment... I will have to keep doing my knitting and crocheting in a dining chair. Oh well.
In other news - there is no other news. I am going to go read some science fiction; my dad is having some surgery in a couple of weeks and will have to stay flat on his back in bed for several days, so I have promised to send him a chunk of SF books. Gotta get moving on that. Got a chunk of mystery and romance books for Cindy for her new library branch - to make it cost effective to mail them back to Austin, even with Media Mail rates, gotta have more though - at least 20. So, less crochet, more read. I can do that.
