Oh, the Torture

Leah and I are officially back in the "let's find us a new house" mode, but of course, we now have the task of selling ours. But it still never hurts to casually look at those available homes in the marketplace which would pique our interest. Since Leah has an in-house Realtor(R), she's always making suggestions or finding nominations online via a searchable database (that is essentially a direct data dump from the MLS).

In car terms, we found a practically new vehicle today on a car lot for several thousand bucks less than the Kelley Blue Book, and all it needs is a good run through the car wash and maybe an air freshener.

Yep, we found a foreclosure that's been on the market (this time) for about 2 months. But it was built brand new in 2004, and in mid-2005 was put on the market due to a potential relocation. Some time after 2 different listing agents and 3 listing contracts, the bank came a' calling and presumably showed them the street.

So we have a 3 year old house (in an area that we wouldn't mind being in), whose only problem is stale air due to lack of circulation, some dust and spider webs, and I think Leah and I counted 2 mild stains on the carpet. 3 BR, 2 BA. Tiled kitchen, unfinished bonus room, his/her closets in the master bath, nice fixtures, cool plant ledges....and the current asking price is $12K less than the dude paid for it 3 years ago. In an neighborhood of a bit larger houses, it seems. So we'll keep an eye on it. Maybe David Copperfield can make it disappear like he did the Statue of Liberty several years ago.....