By Flickr user McMorr

So Geoff and I have decided (again) to look for a new house. There are a few reasons which I won’t go into here, but mostly we just want a better house.

I am not entirely convinced of the wisdom of buying right now- prices on houses don’t seem to have fallen that much, which may be why there’s a glut of houses that have been on the market for a long time. This certainly isn’t a good time to sell a house, and we may have the rent the property for a while (anyone looking for a place with a month to month lease?). I have come not to trust my own financial advice much after realizing that I should have been putting all that money I put into stocks over the last two years into savings instead (god knows that would have made the house buying easier- we’d have enough for 30-40% out of pocket. sigh.)

The first hurdle, of course, if getting our house ready to sell. This means fixing a few odds and ends around the house, and it seems like every time we fix one thing we find another that needs to be fixed and I’m wondering if that process will ever end. Right now we’re doing the major things so a Realtor can come in to tell us what else we need to do.

Then there’s the fact that we have 5 cats. Luckily they have not destroyed the house, but we’ll need to figure out what to do with them (and the litterboxes) while we show the house. I’m not sure how other people handle this. And Geoff doesn’t like the idea of letting friends take care of at least a few of the cats while we are looking to sell, so I guess that’s out. :/

And yet, in spite of all this, we’re looking for a house. Go figure.

So my post grad school peace has been disrupted somewhat while we do housework and look at houses. Fun.