I will be amazed. Grateful, but amazed.
We’re still here, but it’s been a hell of a few months. We started the process of looking for a house to buy, but the vast majority are either bank-owned and trashed (intentionally or by the elements), short-sales (which is a ticket to nowhere on a very slow boat), or seller-owned and massively overpriced (the number of people who think that the market actually should sustain the absurd prices of the last few years really surprises me; homes that should have been, at this point, in the mid-200s are still being listed in the upper 400s. And sitting, and sitting, and sitting. The banks involved in short-sales haven’t figured this out, yet, either.
Miss M. started preschool in September, and it’s been one long, slow descent into Level 4 biohazard territory. She got the plague about a month ago, and it’s turned out to be the gift that just keeps on giving. $100+ in pediatrician copays later, we’re still trying to get rid of the damned thing. It looks like she may miss her class Thanksgiving feast (that she was really exited about), and at this rate we’ll be lucky if we make it to the REAL Thanksgiving at my parents’ house.
So, still here, but dragging.
