Despite a couple small problems that have in total cost us a few hundred dollars, Kim and I have had a sneaking suspicion that we got an incredibly good deal on our house, based on the prices of other houses we saw during our year-long house hunt. We never had any good way to verify that information, however, since in the few months we've been living in our house, no other dwelling in our 80-home neighborhood has been put up for sale.
Now there is a house for sale. It is our next-door neighbor1. It is built the same year our house was built, and it is within a few square feet of the lower estimate of our house's size2. It has one fewer bathroom. It is for sale for about three Honda Element DXs more than what we paid for our house (or if you're Kimberly, one Corvette Z06. That is wack, and I am assuming that (a) they're massively overpricing and will never sell it at the current number and/or (b) the house is full of solid gold countertops or diamond sink knobs or something and/or (c) we got an amazing deal on our house.
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1 Please do not give this information to Kimberly's parents3. Thank you.
2 There was about 100 sq. ft. difference between the number the former owner gave us and the number the appraiser from our lender; surprisingly, it was the latter number that was higher.
3 Although I'm sure they'd never buy it at the current price. But still. Please.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
