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Buying a Condo, Maybe
After a lot of angsting today, we've asked our realtor to make an offer on a place.
It's a condo *way* up in the northwest part of the city. We really would have preferred a different location, denser development or a space with a yard for Covid-safe socializing, and a more queer-friendly neighborhood.
There was a house we looked at today that, If we were going to be here long term, I would 100% want to place an offer on instead. But we're probably only here for two years, and for lots of unfortunate reasons, the condo is just more sensible, and less risky. Honestly, I resent it a little bit. But in our situation right now, it just makes the most sense.
The one and only plus for the location is that it's a lot closer to the dog park I take Ella too. And beyond that, Regina isn't that big a city. It's only a 13 minute drive to the center of town, and 20 minutes to the far southeast end of Regina using the faster roads around the perimeter of town. This isn't Chicago where you can drive an hour and a half south from Roger's Park and still be in Chicago. Even if Miriam starts commuting to the university at some point, it's not going to be too bad a drive.
We spent a long time looking at two last places in depth, trying to justify a house on Princess Street we went out to see today. (How great would that have been? I wanted to be there just for the name! Our wi-fi network would have to be called "two princesses" or something...) It was really good in lots of ways, but it just didn't seem like the best choice. I wish it could have been different.
(Edited to add: Ok, I just checked on Google. I *thought* it was a lot closer to the dog park, but supposedly it's one minute further away at 11 minutes vs. 10 from home. Psychogeography is weird. And now I'm even more disappointed.
I don't care if this neighborhood is full of old retired [and thus more likely conservative] people as our realtor suggested: I wanna put a trans flag in our window.)
It's a condo *way* up in the northwest part of the city. We really would have preferred a different location, denser development or a space with a yard for Covid-safe socializing, and a more queer-friendly neighborhood.
There was a house we looked at today that, If we were going to be here long term, I would 100% want to place an offer on instead. But we're probably only here for two years, and for lots of unfortunate reasons, the condo is just more sensible, and less risky. Honestly, I resent it a little bit. But in our situation right now, it just makes the most sense.
The one and only plus for the location is that it's a lot closer to the dog park I take Ella too. And beyond that, Regina isn't that big a city. It's only a 13 minute drive to the center of town, and 20 minutes to the far southeast end of Regina using the faster roads around the perimeter of town. This isn't Chicago where you can drive an hour and a half south from Roger's Park and still be in Chicago. Even if Miriam starts commuting to the university at some point, it's not going to be too bad a drive.
We spent a long time looking at two last places in depth, trying to justify a house on Princess Street we went out to see today. (How great would that have been? I wanted to be there just for the name! Our wi-fi network would have to be called "two princesses" or something...) It was really good in lots of ways, but it just didn't seem like the best choice. I wish it could have been different.
(Edited to add: Ok, I just checked on Google. I *thought* it was a lot closer to the dog park, but supposedly it's one minute further away at 11 minutes vs. 10 from home. Psychogeography is weird. And now I'm even more disappointed.
I don't care if this neighborhood is full of old retired [and thus more likely conservative] people as our realtor suggested: I wanna put a trans flag in our window.)
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However, and this is getting ridiculous now, we got a message from our realtor. The house that we really, really wanted, with the amazing bathroom and boudoir and everything, and which has been under contract supposedly until the 16th and we decided we couldn't wait for, has fallen through. Now we need to decide if we want to offer on that one.
We were literally about to sign the offer on the house when the listing agent accepted another offer without telling the sellers. Turns out he represents both the buyer and seller in that case and would have made double the fee, and he never told the sellers we were about to offer. After that happened, we spent a week or so angsting about what to do and finally decided last night to offer on the condo. Then this morning, again as our agent was literally preparing our offer, we found out the original house is available again.
This yo-yoing is hard, and I'm going to write up the whole process when I get a chance because it's been so crazy.
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