No peeing in the (kitchen) sink

Okay. Josh and I are so close to buying this one house we can taste it. It’s right next to my mom, sure, but that just means free dinners all the time.

We almost bought it earlier this summer, but decided that since I still had a year of college and no steady job yet, that we should wait. Well, the price dropped $15,000. It’s been for sale for over a year. It’s a bank foreclosure, three acres of land, over 2000 square feet with attic space and a full unfinished basement. It is GORGEOUS. It does need work, including having windows replaced and putting a sink in the main bathroom. But we both kind of fell in love with it from the first day we broke into toured it.

Since they’ve already dropped the price so much, and it’s been for sale for so long, I have this weird feeling that the bank would accept a really low-ball offer. But I want to wait and see if they lower it themselves again first. If a lot of people start touring the house and we think we might lose it, we’ll probably go ahead and make an offer. But we’re crossing our fingers it’s still for sale when I graduate, and in that case, we will definitely be making an offer.

I think the reason it hasn’t sold is because we’re out in the middle of nowhere. No one wants to spend the gas to drive all the way out to where we live just to LOOK at a house nowadays. There aren’t any pictures on the online listing except the exterior, which is probably working in our favor. Yes, this house is a fixer-upper, but superficially we can see absolutely nothing majorly wrong with it. And there was a family living in it right up until it was foreclosed on, so the electric and plumbing can’t be total shit. More importantly - if they accepted what we’re prepared to offer - the monthly payments would be way less than what we’d have to spend on rent anywhere around here. Double win.

I am really excited about Josh and me having our own place. There are just a few habits I hope he hasn’t been hiding from me, or else I may have to give him the boot:

• Leaving cabinet doors and drawers OPEN. Why it is so difficult for some people to close these things when they’re done with them, I will never know.
• Cleaning up spills in the bathroom by moving the bath rug over it with his feet.
• Leaving HUGE. CHUNKS. OF FOOD. in the kitchen sink after rinsing out dishes.
• Pretending those giant dust bunnies next to the refrigerator aren’t really there. Or following you as you walk by.
• Cluttering up the end table within MINUTES of me cleaning it off.
• Peeing in the kitchen sink. Even if he removes the dishes. Bathroom sink I can deal with, because hey, our eating utensils don’t go in there. I just wouldn’t want to drop my contact or anything.

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