Friday, January 16, 2004
The House Saga Continues.
This whole house thing is like an emotional rollercoaster. One minute there is hope that we will get what we want. The next our hope and dreams are dashed. Argh! I hate this stuff.
Ok so here is what’s happened over the last few days.
-The house we were looking at for 169,900 was sold. And it wasn’t sold to just anyone, it was sold to the Mayor of Dayton. If I didn’t think I liked her before, with all her retarded hats, I REALLY don’t like her now. How ever our Sales person is great and he is going to go to bat for us with the owner of the company to try to let us build a new one of those at the same price in a lot of our choosing. This would be the best thing that could happen. In fact its better then getting that other house all together. Lets just hope that he can go to bat for us and get us that price. He is also looking in to a lot we really like. He agrees it’s a great lot and is calling to make sure its not already sold. We also found out they do not require a construction loan. This is good news since we will not be over stretched if they can do the house at 169,900. If they can’t give us that price we will probably walk away. Oh and the bank just told us that we are approved for the full 169,900, so that’s a good thing.
-Just heard back from DJ our sales guy. Lots of bad news. The owner won’t move at all on the price. Construction materials have gone up so they say they cant honor the Cityrama price any longer. Whats funny is the $169,900 wasn’t the Cityrama price either, it was listed at less in the booklet they handed out. Tsk Tsk. Also we found out they the lot we want has been taken off the market by the city. Not because its sold but because the guy living next door claims to own 8 feet of the lot. Now I don’t know if that means his property line is moved over 8 more feet then it currently shows on the deeds or if there are just eight random feet that he thinks he own. Any how instead of looking into is at all the City just said SCREW IT and gave up. Effectively giving him not only those 8 feet but the whole lot. The last bit of crushing news is that IF the historical something something council that trys to keep the neighborhood historical looking has its way there wont be any more of these houses built down there. They don’t want houses looking the same. They just made one of the new houses going up down there loose the balcony.
-Hmm this is the rollercoaster part of the deal… we are back up again, sorta. DJ called back again… and he said that they have come up with some new designs that will make the Historical people happy and will also keep the general look of the house while not changing the inside at all. This is great news, just minutes before we got that call were very close to giving up. We need to get a lot yet, but that shouldn’t be to hard as long as people are not claiming 8 feet here and there. Still for as good as that news is, it doesn’t change the fact that they still want 5k more then we have been approved for.
And that brings us current. DJ wants to show me the new designs on Saturday. I wont be able to meet him on Saturday so maybe he will fax them to me.
Oh and depending on how all this goes, meaning if we end up walking away because we are tired of getting repeatedly shafted, I might have a good story to tip the Dayton Daily News about. It turns out that only did the Mayor buy our house, but she also condemned the two buildings to the left of it. Would they have been condemned if I would have bought them? Probably not, at least not as fast as they were. And I would love to know what price she paid for it. I bet there was a rather nice price break given to the Mayor in exchange for “Development Considerations” for JZ Homes, who has a lot of commercial development going on in Dayton.
On top of all of that, I am sick and tired of people acting like I am fucking retarded for wanting to move into this house into this area. Last night I got grief from someone that I think lives in an apartment. Maybe they should speak up when they own the roof over their head. Sure its in Dayton city limits, and its on the wrong side of the river some would say. But it’s a historical district, its very nice and its growing in value all the time. The freaking lot is $1, you can not get cheaper land then that, and if you do, big deal you saved a dollar! With all the jacking around I am getting over this whole house deal, hearing bull shit over where the house is at makes me wish I could just carry a ball bat around with me so I could Al Capone anyone that gives me lip about it.
Ok so here is what’s happened over the last few days.
-The house we were looking at for 169,900 was sold. And it wasn’t sold to just anyone, it was sold to the Mayor of Dayton. If I didn’t think I liked her before, with all her retarded hats, I REALLY don’t like her now. How ever our Sales person is great and he is going to go to bat for us with the owner of the company to try to let us build a new one of those at the same price in a lot of our choosing. This would be the best thing that could happen. In fact its better then getting that other house all together. Lets just hope that he can go to bat for us and get us that price. He is also looking in to a lot we really like. He agrees it’s a great lot and is calling to make sure its not already sold. We also found out they do not require a construction loan. This is good news since we will not be over stretched if they can do the house at 169,900. If they can’t give us that price we will probably walk away. Oh and the bank just told us that we are approved for the full 169,900, so that’s a good thing.
-Just heard back from DJ our sales guy. Lots of bad news. The owner won’t move at all on the price. Construction materials have gone up so they say they cant honor the Cityrama price any longer. Whats funny is the $169,900 wasn’t the Cityrama price either, it was listed at less in the booklet they handed out. Tsk Tsk. Also we found out they the lot we want has been taken off the market by the city. Not because its sold but because the guy living next door claims to own 8 feet of the lot. Now I don’t know if that means his property line is moved over 8 more feet then it currently shows on the deeds or if there are just eight random feet that he thinks he own. Any how instead of looking into is at all the City just said SCREW IT and gave up. Effectively giving him not only those 8 feet but the whole lot. The last bit of crushing news is that IF the historical something something council that trys to keep the neighborhood historical looking has its way there wont be any more of these houses built down there. They don’t want houses looking the same. They just made one of the new houses going up down there loose the balcony.
-Hmm this is the rollercoaster part of the deal… we are back up again, sorta. DJ called back again… and he said that they have come up with some new designs that will make the Historical people happy and will also keep the general look of the house while not changing the inside at all. This is great news, just minutes before we got that call were very close to giving up. We need to get a lot yet, but that shouldn’t be to hard as long as people are not claiming 8 feet here and there. Still for as good as that news is, it doesn’t change the fact that they still want 5k more then we have been approved for.
And that brings us current. DJ wants to show me the new designs on Saturday. I wont be able to meet him on Saturday so maybe he will fax them to me.
Oh and depending on how all this goes, meaning if we end up walking away because we are tired of getting repeatedly shafted, I might have a good story to tip the Dayton Daily News about. It turns out that only did the Mayor buy our house, but she also condemned the two buildings to the left of it. Would they have been condemned if I would have bought them? Probably not, at least not as fast as they were. And I would love to know what price she paid for it. I bet there was a rather nice price break given to the Mayor in exchange for “Development Considerations” for JZ Homes, who has a lot of commercial development going on in Dayton.
On top of all of that, I am sick and tired of people acting like I am fucking retarded for wanting to move into this house into this area. Last night I got grief from someone that I think lives in an apartment. Maybe they should speak up when they own the roof over their head. Sure its in Dayton city limits, and its on the wrong side of the river some would say. But it’s a historical district, its very nice and its growing in value all the time. The freaking lot is $1, you can not get cheaper land then that, and if you do, big deal you saved a dollar! With all the jacking around I am getting over this whole house deal, hearing bull shit over where the house is at makes me wish I could just carry a ball bat around with me so I could Al Capone anyone that gives me lip about it.
