{"id":1735,"date":"2010-08-13T18:14:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T01:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laughingmonkey.org\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2010-08-13T18:14:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T01:14:18","slug":"house-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=1735","title":{"rendered":"House update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great housing adventure of 2010 continues unabated.<\/p>\n<p>The property I mentioned a few blog posts ago is still there, still available. I&#8217;ve been inside the place, with Contractor Dan. And yes, as you might have guessed, there are &#8220;Issues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Must be fixed before anyone could move in:<br \/>\n<UL><\/p>\n<li>The place needs a new roof<\/li>\n<li>There has been some small amount of water damage inside<\/li>\n<p><\/UL><\/p>\n<p>Needs to be fixed to be safe:<br \/>\n<UL><\/p>\n<li>Replace rotted back deck<\/li>\n<li>Repair places where fence has rotted<\/li>\n<p><\/UL><\/p>\n<p>Would want to address within first year:<br \/>\n<UL><\/p>\n<li>Repair places where front porch railing has rotted <\/li>\n<li>Bedroom remodel<\/li>\n<li>Kitchen remodel<\/li>\n<li>Bathroom remodel<\/li>\n<li>Major tree pruning on a massive willow (way too big for me to do)<\/li>\n<li>Refinish hardwood floors<\/li>\n<p><\/UL><\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s the matter of a crummy &#8220;finished&#8221; basement that looks like the worst of the 70s, and has lots of exposed pipes and ductwork.<\/p>\n<p>On top of which, consider much higher property taxes, higher crime rates and a higher price tag in general than I had hoped for. Of course, those items aren&#8217;t a black mark against this property per se, it&#8217;s just part of the baggage of leaving my current home and moving much closer into the city.<\/p>\n<p>Still, if I&#8217;m going to move at all, this place continues to hold my imagination like no other property I&#8217;ve seen. It has more space, more land, more possibilities. Taken care of, it could be a real showplace. It would be a fabulous home for parties. It is centrally located for most anywhere I would want to bike. The basement level with its separate entrance could be a fabulous office space for a chiropractor, someday.<\/p>\n<p>So, no decisions yet, but I&#8217;m a little further down the road. I&#8217;m talking with bank people about financing; that all looks positive and is progressing nicely. I&#8217;ve talked with a pair of buyers&#8217; agents about worrisome issues to investigate.<br \/>\n And I&#8217;m continuing to look at other properties, but none I&#8217;ve seen have come close to luring me away from this place.<\/p>\n<p>Lots to think about. I wish I was better at making rilly big decisions like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great housing adventure of 2010 continues unabated. The property I mentioned a few blog posts ago is still there, still available. I&#8217;ve been inside the place, with Contractor Dan&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=1735\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,43],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-house","tag-pdx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}