House Hunting

So Mike and I are hopefully on the brink of being able to purchase our first home. We’re pretty excited about the current market (as we don’t have to sell our current home before buying the next) and have enjoyed watching our money become worth more and more house. However, the one we’re looking at now, is a little out of our price range. Anyone interested in going in with us? And by anyone, I think I probably need to include the entire reading audience of Addison Road.

18 Responses to “House Hunting”


  1. 1 Karen

    That is one nice house!! :)
    Are you sure you don’t want to move to Tennessee and buy our house? We have to sell it in the very near future as the IRS would like all of our money. We are only asking 210K for it.

  2. 2 michael lee

    I’m pretty sure the house G linked to would only cost 32 million in Nashville …

  3. 3 Sharolyn's Husband

    To balance your carbon footprint in that house, you need only use LED Christmas lights and drive a Prius.

  4. 4 sharolyn

    There are certain things we would require. Please ask if it has a fourth bedroom.

  5. 5 Sharolyn's Husband

    With 10% down, your monthly payment is $928,000. A month. Every 1st day of every month. Don’t sweat it, though, that includes taxes and insurance.

  6. 6 sharolyn

    Who gets to write the elevator music?

  7. 7 Sharolyn's Husband

    What is the point of having an elevator on only the main floor?

  8. 8 sharolyn

    How close is the nearest Starbucks? Oh, fabulous - it contains a Starbucks!

  9. 9 michael lee

    Jason, there are 4 master suites. We’ll just rent the other three out for $309k a month.

  10. 10 Leoskeo

    But I am not selling that one, I am selling the one next door http://www.pbase.com/ricspix/image/6446130.

  11. 11 Chad

    Hmm… peach isn’t really my thing, but I guess if we’re slumming it I can make due.

  12. 12 Chad

    Ok, so you know you’re in trouble when you’re looking at pictures of a house like that and you see the one of the big, curved, windowed ballroom, and all you can think is… “I wonder how that would sound as a live room?”

  13. 13 sharolyn

    Karen, I am so sorry to hear that! Will you stay in Tennessee?

  14. 14 corey

    Yeah, Karen, that one slipped right by. I hope all is well between you and Uncle Sam (we’ll be writing a very fat check as well). The Witt family will keep yours in our prayers.

  15. 15 Sharolyn's Husband

    Chad, I wondered along the same lines.

    Mike, you can also split up the cable bill with the roommates. That takes it from impossible to doable, I think.

    Karen, I am sorry to hear that as well.

  16. 16 Chad

    Yeah, what’s up with the Reinch clan? That sucks.

  17. 17 Karen

    That ballroom would make a great live room I bet!! :)

    Oh, being self employed the last couple of years hasn’t been to good for paying the taxes. We have been comfortable but haven’t been able to pay the big chunk of taxes.

    But, we need to move anyway. Our kids are zoned for a school that has high gang rates and drop out rates. Elementary school is fantastic, jr. highs are ok and high school is bad.

    We are staying in Tennessee, just need to cut a few expenses!

    But if we can move in with the Addison Rd crew I think we will do that! :)

  18. 18 Daniel Semsen

    I’m in for about 1.5 square feet…how much would that be?

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