Our house is currently worth about $80k more than we paid, which is comforting.
Anybody can be a prop class clown.
Xander ,'Touched'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Sep 10, 2008 1:11:29 pm PDT #8086 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Theodosia - Sep 10, 2008 1:36:26 pm PDT #8087 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Scrappy, that's damn good -- considering what your region's been going through, and all. While the Boston area has taken an obvious hit, it's nothing like in other sections of the country.
Sheryl - Sep 10, 2008 2:06:15 pm PDT #8088 of 10003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Sleepy...
sarameg - Sep 10, 2008 2:11:26 pm PDT #8089 of 10003
I got home 15 minutes ago. I dear, strongly, emphatically do not want to go to work tomorrow. But there isn't much choice in the matter.
Pix - Sep 10, 2008 2:12:07 pm PDT #8090 of 10003
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I Zestimated the house we rent (it's part of a two-house property) and discovered that it is worth $100,000 less than our landlady paid for it in 2006...and that was before she dumped $150K+ into renovation. Ouch.
Please gods, don't let her lose the house. We are never going to be able to find another place that will allow our menagerie in LA.
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2008 2:29:48 pm PDT #8091 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::sigh::
I swear, I've spent more time rescheduling things than doing things recently. But I have gotten some bites off my resume, so that's something.
megan walker - Sep 10, 2008 2:40:27 pm PDT #8092 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The house we live in was purchased in 2000 for $721,000 (list $579,000!) Zillow says its over a million now, but there's no way the owner could get that without a lot of work. Of course, they also say it is a 3 bed/2 ba, which is quite a stretch.
I don't think, given the work it would take to bring it up to the level of what I've seen for sale in the neighborhood, it would go for much more than $800,000.
Cashmere - Sep 10, 2008 3:04:03 pm PDT #8093 of 10003
Now tagless for your comfort.
I don't know how much I trust Zillow's estimates. But I know our Columbus house is still on the market for less than they paid us for the buyout. The good news is that it's still $20K over what we paid for it in 1999. And we really didn't sink that much into improvements. I'm just glad to be out from under it.
Dana - Sep 10, 2008 3:18:10 pm PDT #8094 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Given that Pushing Daisies doesn't premiere for another few weeks, is there any TV on Wednesday night I need to be watching?
sarameg - Sep 10, 2008 3:25:44 pm PDT #8095 of 10003
What is it with FOX and putrid liquidation ?
Jesus christ.
My parents' first house cost $18k. But that was 33 years ago. Sold it for a little over twice that 17 years ago. Wonder what it would go for now.
Interesting tidbit: that house originally was a modular house on a base somewhere circa WW2. When they closed it post-war, the landlady bought a whole bunch of them and moved them to LC and that street to rent. I didn't know that until recently. Explains some things about that house (like how easy it was for grass to grow inside the walls- it was basically plunked on a slab, so it wasn't quite sealed to the foundation. And the closets were clearly prefab, in retrospect.) It wasn't really obvious it was a modular. Most of its issues were minor, structurally it was sound and solid.