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[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Owen and I have found our dream home-- we made an offer but we are not sure that it will get accepted-- it is a place that I can see myself growing old with Owen in. I can see it snow covered, rain soaked, a little porch swing on the porch so that we can rock in the evenings. Doesn't it look like something out of Anne of Green Gables-- it is a house that NEEDS a name. And I want to name it-- the kitchen is beautiful and big, there is a bathtub that is deep and perfect for reading-- stairs with a sunny spot that the cats can lounge on.

We are going to talk to the Loan officier on monday and then submit an offer



I cannot help but thing that this house is perfect, that it is meant for us.

I hope so-- I really do.

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[alwaysbeenasmiler]

If you ever want to move somewhere that the cost of living is pretty good-- Louisville Kentucky is pretty awesome-- as opposed to the rest of the state. You really should see what you could get for 400k in Lousiville-- we are approaching like showroom type stuff with bathtubs that you could fit four people into and probably large gilt mirrors everywhere.

I'm glad it works for you, but

[solarbird]

I went to graduate school at the University of Kentucky. I still run the SF club's mailing list and provide hosting for their website. I'm a dyke; my wife Anna is from Louisville.

And with all respect to the great people we met there, of which there were a good number... we don't go anywhere near Kentucky, or any other politically-similarly-minded state, these days. Not for love or money.

Re: I'm glad it works for you, but

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Yeah, as a whole Kentucky sucks but I do love Louisville-- it's all about finding your tribe I guess, especially when the shit hits the ceiling-- I just have a really good job here but if I ever lost it-- I'd probably be like "Owen-- let's move"

Re: I'm glad it works for you, but

[solarbird]

The last time I was in Louisville - or Kentucky at all - was visiting Anna's family in 2005. It was in the Bardstown neighbourhood, and I quite liked it, other than the crushing heat. It was the only place at all like here I'd ever seen in Kentucky.

Re: I'm glad it works for you, but

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

So much good food in the Bardstown area, oh gods.

by the way, I checked listings

[solarbird]

I did find a small house (750 sq ft or so?) for sale right now at a mere $400k in Seattle city limits. One of those post-war single-story four-squares, which... I don't know if you have. I've seen Kentucky postwar saltboxes, they're similar in idea but quite different in style.

(This excludes bankruptcy/short-sale mortgage houses, which have indeterminate value.)

I'm from Seattle and I don't live in city limits anymore. :/ On a major transit corridor, though, which helps. (But I really miss being in town...)

Re: by the way, I checked listings

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Well this property is off of Dixie Highway, off of Valley Station-- and it's only when you get into J'town and east that you really hit the higher priced houses.

We read the stuff listed about the house, and it was bought at 74k last November and flipped--

So judging from the stuff you can get for 74k on Zillow, I can only imagine what it looked like-- which brings me to wonder if it's haunted-- but it might not be since it was built in 1992, it just looks like it's been around forever, but the molding on the outside of the house actually is throughout the house, it's really quite lovely and brings quite a charm to it.

I grew up in L.A so I know how bad housing can be-- once upon a time I had pondered living on my own while in college, and then I saw the price of the apartments and I was like "Oh gods, grandma let me live with you"-- and thus I avoided having to adult too early in life. I'm glad I don't live in California because the housing market there is insane

[solarbird]

Y'know, honestly, the more I look at that house - and I followed the Zillow link back to the tax site where I could saw the preivous tax photo, which makes a great "before" - the more I like it? And I don't even like Victoriana.

I mean seriously, the current sellers really did right by the place, with removing the fake shutters, dramatically better paint decisions - particularly on the garage - and the replacement windows on the right. Smart.

The only thing I'd really want to do on the outside is replace the two other windows the sellers didn't replace - those tall, blank voids, on the left - with same-style windows as the other two on the right. Make them appropriately shorter (same sill height, just lower the tops) of course - windows shouldn't touch roof casing.

Maybe something stained-glass-framed on the porch. Victorian homebuilders loved their stained-glass framing. But if you're not into that, two more double-hung sashes to finish it off and it's perfect.

I mean seriously, looking at the before photo - the sellers did that house some real favours. So much better. Well done all around.

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

I just found the before photo and wow you are right!

the thing that really bugged us was the glass door, so we may do something stained glass with it, or frost it-- or get a real door; I am just not comfortable with a glass door honestly-- (owen told me that was the first thing that would go); but I do like the little door that leads into the kitchen-- it makes it easy for grocery sake.