Nothing Really Interesting

[willowisp]

This is just a quick note to let people know I'm alive and well. I'll write about the Seattle trip some other time. For now we're house-hunting and I'm still volunteering.

Comments

[echoweaver.livejournal.com]

3% financing? That is pretty sweet. These homes do have fairly substantial yards for Albuquerque. They were built before the lawn restrictions.

Are you looking in a specific price range?

[willowisp.livejournal.com]

No minimum, so long as the house isn't, say, condemned. The ceiling is about 300k, which is why new-built homes are so appealing.

[echoweaver.livejournal.com]

OK, ours is a $200K - $250Kish neighborhood, so it might be worth checking out.

Our house was actually larger than we intended to buy, but hubby inherited a huge book collection from his father, so we wanted a "two living area" (weird term for a house with a living room and family room that I'd never heard before house-hunting) so that we could turn the other living area into a library.

It's worked pretty well, but we now have all the books up on brick'n'board shelves because we want to do attractive bookcases, and that's just going to take time and money to get done. Pretty funny looking, actually.

[callicrates.livejournal.com]

It's not 3% financing, it's a 3% discount on the price of the house. It looks like we'll be able to get something like 5% financing on a 30-year mortgage, which still strikes me as being reasonable.

All the same, if I could get a 3% mortgage I'd probably pounce on it...

[echoweaver.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'd pounce on a 3% mortgage?

We recently refinanced and got around 5% That was down 1.5 points from just the previous year, when we bought it. We live in interesting times.