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.

::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.

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.

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.

Given that Pushing Daisies doesn't premiere for another few weeks, is there any TV on Wednesday night I need to be watching?

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.

Ooh, zillow says $116K.

The Zenstimate on my building is laughable - it's only about twice what we paid for our co-op, and there are 12 units in here. But since they don't give the # of bedrooms, I suspect they're looking at the 2-family homes on the rest of the block and extrapolating from the estimated square footage.

Wednesday is Shemar Moore's eyebrows' day.

Someone give me an ETA on my face stopping hurting, will you?

Soon.

I wish I could. I hate not knowing where the end is.