I'll buy a house.
Jun. 28th, 2003 12:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mattlistenerI'm still catching up to this.
Our friends Chip and Anne posted on 5/7 looking for another couple to buy a house with. Brandi and I responded, and the four of us discovered a huge degree of similarity in our desires for location, price range, lifestyle, and living-together preferences. Brandi and I currently rent together in a small-but-happy place, and had been thinking we'd probably buy a condo in a year or two... and suddenly we found ourselves shopping for a 2-family house to move into at the end of the summer.
We looked at many places in the ensuing weeks, and made a couple offers that didn't work out. This Tuesday we saw a great house in a great location at the right price, made an offer, and it got accepted the next day! Have a look! Next step is the inspection, scheduled for 7/1.
I'm really excited... and kind of putting off my feelings at the same time since I've heard so many stories among my aunts and uncles about housing sales or purchases that fell through after the offer was accepted -- or even after the Purchase and Sale Agreement. But even if this doesn't work out for some reason, there's been a new place coming on the market every week or so that's a good enough match for us to get interested in. I'm pretty confident that this will end up happening somehow.
Our friends Chip and Anne posted on 5/7 looking for another couple to buy a house with. Brandi and I responded, and the four of us discovered a huge degree of similarity in our desires for location, price range, lifestyle, and living-together preferences. Brandi and I currently rent together in a small-but-happy place, and had been thinking we'd probably buy a condo in a year or two... and suddenly we found ourselves shopping for a 2-family house to move into at the end of the summer.
We looked at many places in the ensuing weeks, and made a couple offers that didn't work out. This Tuesday we saw a great house in a great location at the right price, made an offer, and it got accepted the next day! Have a look! Next step is the inspection, scheduled for 7/1.
I'm really excited... and kind of putting off my feelings at the same time since I've heard so many stories among my aunts and uncles about housing sales or purchases that fell through after the offer was accepted -- or even after the Purchase and Sale Agreement. But even if this doesn't work out for some reason, there's been a new place coming on the market every week or so that's a good enough match for us to get interested in. I'm pretty confident that this will end up happening somehow.
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Date: 2003-06-28 07:14 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, the City of Somerville explicitly forbids the practice of massage therapy in one's residence. So as long as I'm seeing massage clients at my Broadway office, I may as well keep seeing counselling clients there too.
The top massage professionals and institutions in Mass have been lobbying for statewide licensure for years. We were on the verge of getting it for '01 but then the physical therapy lobby rose up and killed it. Currently massage therapy is licensed in 27 states -- in states without it such as Mass one is at the mercy of one's local Board of Health, and Somerville's is comparatively unfriendly.
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Date: 2003-06-28 06:57 pm (UTC)Guess you're not interested in our third-floor apartment, then. :-)
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Date: 2003-06-28 08:13 pm (UTC)House
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Date: 2003-06-29 07:49 pm (UTC)cute house!
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