Essentially, here is a summary of what has happened with Kim's and my house-hunting adventure: (a) Kim and I decided, based on prices in the Richmond area, that we were going to get a new house rather than a used one. (b) We narrowed our choices down to two subdivisions, which I will give unsnazzy names to: The Disc Golf Course Subdivision and the Close To Our Old Apartment Subdivision. Both are virtually brand-new: Old Apartment has four or five houses partially finished out of (I think) 80, and Disc Golf won't start building any of its 45 houses until July at the earliest. (c) After a bit of deliberation, we tentatively decided to go with Disc Golf, despite not yet knowing specific house prices. (We did, however, know the range of prices the developer was considering, and they were very much in line with Old Apartment, which we did [and do] have prices for.) (d) We thus decided to put a $500 deposit down on our favorite remaining lot in Disc Golf, which is refundable if we decided not to by a house in the subdivision 30 days after getting final prices from both the builders in the subdivision. (If you buy a house, the $500 goes toward closing costs.) (e) Using the cost of houses in Old Apartment and a couple other subdivisions, I made an estimation of the price of the model that Kim and I were most interested in. Let us call that price $x.
That brings you, dear reader, up through yesterday. Yesterday, Kim and I went to the developer's office to get the finalized prices from one of the two builders in Disc Golf -- specifically, the builder who was building the model we were most interested in. And how much did that price come out as? $x + $30,000. (We temporarily believed it was $x + $40,000, until we realized that price included a finished third floor.) (While we're on parentheticals: For those who have very little idea how much house Kim and I can afford, be assured that x is not 800,000 or even 400,000, where perhaps a $30,000 difference is relatively negligible.) So we were floored -- especially since the subdivision was supposed to top out at $x + $20,000 -- and now we are confused, and now we are very, very curious what prices the other builder in Disc Golf is going to come up with.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
