Still More House Hunting

More house hunting…

First, drive into the middle of nowhere. Then walk up the driveway that is so steep, you'd never get permission from the building department to ever duplicate it in 2005. Enter through the basement into some guys Frankenstein like concoction of wood stove, oil heat, and solar energy that is supposed to keep the place running. Then go upstairs where the last tenants dog trashed the rug, the kids put up all their posters using drywall screws (at least I guess why there are so many big holes in the walls), and the owners admit they don't have much time to get up there to fix it up any…That was house #1.

House #2 feels like it belongs in one of The Series of Unfortunate Events books. The wood floors are uneven and stained, the walls are painted battleship gray (on purpose) and the empty lot next door looks like the setting for the next Stephen King novel…add this to the fact that its on the edge one of the most unsavory part of town and you can start to imagine our experience in looking at House #2.

House #3 was beautiful from the outside, not bad on the inside (some exposed beams and neat nooks), but lacked off street parking. Given the fact that its on the busy main street of town, the idea of lugging boxes of soap blocks to the car so we can go to a show quickly turned us off. Even best case scenario, we'd have to cross the road to the car since you can only park on the other side of the road. Too bad, it's been the most promising of the ton we've seen.

House #4: We didn't actually stop at since we had no appointment, but we did drive by and decide that at least the neighborhood was nice enough that we should call about seeing the inside.
Tomorrow we have 2 more to see inside, and 2 more to drive by (so we can decide just how rural is too rural)…