Robert,
Cheer up, you could could be living here in the San Jose. Last night on the
news
they showed that the 'average' house here is now $460K, and we don't even have
basements:-(
To put that into perspective, in Palo Alto (20 miles away) the average price is
now over 1.1M :-0
- Bryan Vandiver
San Jose, CA
>To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Subject: grumpy ( personal, not LBC )
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>Hey guys!
>
>I'm trying to buy an improved and bigger garage. ( Uh, I mean house. ) So
>far the ducks are lining up. We found a place not far from here that meets
>most, if not all of our requirements. It is in fairly lousy shape ( garage
>is good though ) with water in the basement and a horrid kitchen and needing
>general repair everywhere.
>
>I'm grumpy from having to jump through other peoples' hoops. I don't like
>being pushed, I would have to say. We have a tentative agreement and the
>building inspection will be done today. Then we'll have to finalize the
><gasp> financing. Hopefully, the fact that I am newly between contracts
>will not affect things adversely.
>
>I dread having to move the 1000 piece non rolling Sprite. And it greatly
>pained me to scrap my 20 year old Pontiac from the driveway to make our
>house more saleable. It felt like a death in the family.
>
>Every frickin time I get a bit of time off I end up painting or otherwise
>doing upkeep to this #*$^&#@ house.
>
>Nice big and bright double garage with access windows to the basement work
>shop though. :)
>
>Robert Duquette
>Ottawa ON Canada
>http://www3.sympatico.ca/robertduquette
>RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca
>'65 RHD BRG Sprite
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