long time no post — excuse = homeownership
Oddly, hunting for a house and buying one is a bit time consuming.
All in all, I looked at about a dozen homes before deciding on one. It's a 105 year old Queen Anne, a couple blocks from the river. I moved in a month or so ago and I'm still not completely settled in. It's about 2200 finished square feet, technically 4 bedrooms 1.75 baths (but one bedroom is set up as a laundry room and I'm using another as an office). There's also a great third floor/attic that's finishable (and big enough that I could probably add a loft to it), and a 450 square foot 1 bedroom/1 bathroom "mother-in-law suite" over the "carriage house", which I'm renting to a ND divinity student. On one side of the house is the neighborhood association building. On the other side — a pair of nuns. Across… a street that leads straight down to the river. Behind, the 2 car "carriage house", and an alley, and a couple of houses that are currently being restored by the neighborhood association. So overall a pretty quiet location, if you ignore that the street is a fairly busy one and the hospital's less than a mile away. Big yard for being in such an old section of town. I've been here almost a month now. Enjoying it thus far. We'll see how it goes 
And now, back to the regularly scheduled neglect of blog.
Filed by JC at August 28th, 2009 under Michiana, Random, Thoughts
Congrats! Sounds like a really nice place. Home ownership just in time to rake leaves
Comment by David Henry — October 13, 2009 @ 3:24 pm