grrlTravels

Ah yes..I have my own big pile of 86 year old dutch colonial. I too got had a market analysis done of our house and went looking about 6 months ago. We even almost put an offer on (another!) 100 year old home. But then I started looking around and remembered why I love it here.

Of course, I don't have bees, or termites, or possums. (And I so hope that wasn't a rat!)

I did live in a house in college where the racoons came and lived in between the floorboards in the winter time. You could FEEL them thumping under your feet. And we had bumblebees who set up shop somewhere in the house and we were infested with them. I was so afraid of them that I would set glasses upside down on top of them until one of my roommates (my brother and his best friend) came home. They worked both worked third shift and would come in in the morning to find mugs and glasses all over the house.

Good luck with the house -- or the move -- whichever you decide!

I'm whispering lest this stinky old house of ours is listening (its the sneaky evesdropping kind that would)I think I knew even before we closed on this one that we had made a huge mistake but was just too stressed out to be able to act on my gut feeling and stop the purchase. It is a beautiful house in many ways but just so God damn demanding, whatever you give it, new paint, well pumps, cess pit blasting, its just never enough it wants more, more and not just your inexpensive little "mores" oh no it wants great big huge "mores" it wants second bathrooms, new septic tanks, roof overhauls, on and on the list goes. Well, what it wants and what its getting from us our two very different things - see how brave I am when I don't think it can hear me?

Due to lack of $$ its going to be a little while yet before we can move but the day will come, please oh please tell me the day will come.

Hey! I have a big ol' pile of logs, too! But I kinda like mine; there's nothing wrong with it that, oh, about $60,000 worth of renovations wouldn't fix. And some closets. Do you have closets? This house has two. TWO closets...

We have skunks that live under the front porch, and neighborhood cats that sneak under the house.

Chinking that falls out...ew. And I hope it's a possum, not a rat, but you'd better get it out real quick like!

You said:

By contemplating I mean calling your realtor and pricing your house on the market and making a wish list and requesting a listing of homes in your price range. Now. Or yesterday.

I say:

Why yes, as a matter of fact, we made an offer on a house today--10 days before we are leaving for China to get our baby z. I feel exactly as you decribe feeling only I don't have a log home. I have a lopsided 1929 bungalow that no matter how much I work on it seems to be getting a little more wonky each year. The plaster is cracked in every room, the windows need glazing, the floors need a good waxing. I have 2 tiny closets and will soon have 4 people and 5 animals in this shoebox. I want a fresh start. Call me crazy and wish me luck! If all goes well (Oh please let it go well), I am beating a hasty retreat.

Can you believe I am doing this after building my studio?

And your big old pile of logs, or what I have seen of it, is pretty--even if it is annoying. Do you think you will really move?

I say take the threats up a notch. The new owner could certainly have dogs. They could also like really flowery wallpaper - everywhere. And teenagers, they could have awful rebellious teenagers. And carpet, they could come in and put down white shag carpet - everywhere.

I can't tell you how many times I've looked around the kitchen after a party or around the living room after my daughter got through with it and said to my husband, "I'm not cleaning up. Let's just move." So I understand the impulse. And then you get to buy all new books!