I'm tired of being a homeowner. I give up. Anyone want our house?
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
When it rains....
Picture you're me for a second. (I know, for some of you, quite frightening. Others of you, quite awesome.) 8 months pregnant, working two nights a week, having preschool with an almost-three-year-old two mornings a week, Dr's appointments every two weeks (soon to be every week) and Christmas and Abby's birthday coming up. Don't you think my house should NOT fall apart at this time?? We just got our shower and bathtub replaced due to faulty installation when it was put in a few years ago (before we moved in). To make a longish story shortish, water was getting behind the shower wall and causing mold to grow. As soon as that was done, Adam tried to fix our sagging ceiling (again, due to faulty installation-this time when the house was built in the 60s) and instead made the problem worse. Now there's a giant crack down the middle of our ceiling. So we're getting quotes for how much it will cost us to replace our entire living room ceiling. Then today, when I got home from the Dr., I walked across a patch of our carpet and got my socks wet. I looked and looked, stood up on a chair and felt all over the ceiling, but found no source of the wetness. So now, we (meaning Adam) get to pull our (new) carpet up, dry it out, hope that there is no mold, and find the source of the wetness. Hopefully it's something easy. But at this point, I don't know what easy option is left. I'm thinking leaking pipe or something even more horrible like a super cracked foundation or something.
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if it makes you feel any better, the same is happening to our cars.
I love not having car payments... Hate the maintenance on older cars.. yikes.
Dude. Not me.
Well? At least the baby isn't here yet...
Aaaand that's about all I've got...
Right, so my dumpy little apartment is looking pretty good to me right now.
So sorry you guys are going through that. Completely lame. To be honest, I'm so not looking forward to buying a house. The only thing that sounds good to me about it is that you don't share walls and you get a yard. Which in Phoenix will consist of rocks and cactus's. Awesome.
yuck yuck yuck. thinking of having to deal with stuff like that makes me realize I'm so not an adult yet. We thought we had bed bugs once and the thought of going through all that freaked me out. and that just involved washing and drying lots of stuff. Good luck!
I've been there, Mars. First we had an old house. Low mortgage payments, but high repairs. Then we built a house. High mortgage payments, and low repairs. It seems that either way, you'll get socked with something and have to spend lots of money getting it fixed. (I have to admit that we are enjoying living in a house that we don't have to pay for. Whenever something breaks, Peter and I give each other evil grins and say, "We don't have to fix that!")
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