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| Okay, here we go, a big fat hairy post summing up all of our housing-related nonsense from the past year. Yes, it's been a year since this all started. Oi. But this should answer some questions about vague things I've posted during that time.
This isn't friendlocked so I'll be careful to keep certain topics to the minimum, but it should be enough for everyone interested to get the gist of what we've been through. It's a long read so I don't really expect anyone to read every word, but there are some fun bits in there like a company going out of business and our adventures with a Texas State Trooper, so enjoy...
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| We sold our Vegas house! Deal is done, money in the bank! Yay!
Last year when we started this moving odyssey, we were hoping to get $250,000ish. We closed for $195,000, which is obviously much lower, but still more that we paid for it so we came out ahead. And in this economic climate, that's good enough.
Plus it means no more evil HOA of doom! For those who haven't seen the friendlocked posts, that's what they were about. We've gone through total hell with our HOA. I'm not going to unlock the posts, but suffice to say that we're done with those idiots now, and whatever problems they have in the future won't be ours. I worked very hard to try to right a lot of the wrongs before I left, but the best I could do was get some stuff entered into the minutes of owner meetings that someone else will have to build on in the future if they want to end a lot of the problems.
And I will say this: we will never buy into an HOA again. We wouldn't take a free house in an HOA. I don't care how nice some of them seem, because ours was perfectly fine for the first few years until some crazies took it over and went gaga on power, and that can happen to any HOA.
Now I can post more details of our move too, but not tonight, because I'm tired. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| GAHHHHHHH
The moving truck was supposed to be here Thursday. Fuckers didn't even send it out of Vegas until Monday and only after we complained. Now we're hoping it'll be here this coming Monday. This means we have no toys for Peo other than the few we brought in the car, no furniture other than the air bed and Peo's mattress, hardly any food prep implements, no TV, no computers (using Corran's work machine right now, since the cable guy was just here, FINALLY...didn't even have internet until 20 minutes ago), etc.
So I still can't check email (well I could log on the web end but it sucks and doesn't sort spam so I'm not wading through thousands of unfiltered spam messages, that would be stupid), so don't expect replies from me any time soon.
And here I finally got some net time for the first time in forever and from the wailing in the other room I gather that Peo has knocked over her duckie head cup and spilled juice (precious last servings of Trader Joe's stuff we brought in the car with us) and from Corran's grumblings it sounds like she may have broken her duck head cup too so my first chance to be online is being cut brutally short.
THIS SUCKS ASS.
PS phone still doesn't work after AT&T being out here twice already, Sears couldn't connect the dryer because of an ancient gas line issue so we had to have a plumber come in to do that at a cost of an extra $150, and there have been a pile of other problems. IT HAS NOT BEEN FUN. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
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