I am sorry that I have not posted in the last 10 days. How is that possible? Can it have been 10 days already?<\/p>\n
We have been house hunting. We need something closer to the Computer Guy\u2019s new job. (He starts today. Good Luck, Computer Guy! I love you!) We figured out that it was going to cost us $18 a day in gasoline for him to commute. I don\u2019t know about you, but I can think of many things I\u2019d rather buy with my $400 a month than gas for his car. <\/p>\n
Looking at houses was fun the first 3 days. Now my brain is mush, and all the houses blend into each other. They all begin to look alike after awhile. <\/p>\n
We are funny to listen to at night. \u201cI liked the house with the funky staircase, but not the one with the weird laundry room.\u201d \u201cWas that the one with the green bathroom? Or the one with the red dining room?\u201d It was the one with the leopard wallpaper in the bathroom.\u201d \u201cHmmm\u2026I guess I don\u2019t remember that one. Maybe we should go look at it again.\u201d Again? Are you kidding? <\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s the mortgage stuff and the FICO scores. Is it possible for this to be any more of a game? What a joke. We pay cash for everything, live within our means, and budget like crazy. We live the idea that \u201cIf you can\u2019t pay cash, you can\u2019t afford it.\u201d Then we applied for a mortgage and were told, \u201cYou can get a substantially lower interest rate if you would just open a couple of charge accounts and put maybe $100 each on them and just let it sit while you pay the minimum payments for about 6 months.\u201d What? Go into debt so that I look like a better financial risk? The theory here is that the more money I owe, the better<\/span> I am at handling my finances? What kind of whack-a-doo nutjob dreamed this system up? <\/p>\n I told them \u201cWe have saved a substantial down payment.\u201d And then I smiled because cute can help sometimes. The guy just shook his head and said \u201cIt would be better if you just had a more substantial credit history.\u201d Substantial? Like more? Yes. Owe more, and they will give you more. I think I may have stumbled through the looking glass. Has anyone else seen that white rabbit? <\/p>\n The short version is: We\u2019re looking for a new house. My brain hurts. Blogging may be intermittent. The End.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am sorry that I have not posted in the last 10 days. How is that possible? Can it have been 10 days already? We have been house hunting. We need something closer to the Computer Guy\u2019s new job. (He starts today. Good Luck, Computer Guy! I love you!) We figured out that it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n