No Really, I'm not kidding

So My House hunt continues....

I ran across this little gem, that can be yours for a measley $525,000.00.


 

This is the kitchen area, which as you can see has some "minor" problems. As the person showing the house stated.
Hello!! Are you an idiot? All I could think of was infestation, infestation. You name it, it has probably infested here.

 
This is just off the kitchen, and apparently you could roast a pig on the spit in the brick area, and watch tv while it cooks, because it is also the "family"room!! Sweet!

 

This, my friends, is the bathroom.

 

This is a bedroom, and that stuff on the floor is the carpet and yes, the walls are oozing.

The saddest part is we were there with 3 other people looking at it, and I bet is sells for $630,000.00.

I keep asking myself "Why is it that we live here?". Ah, yes..Because we love IT! 

My very own "Crack" house...Almost

 




For the last 6 years I have been looking for a house.

Not just any old house, but a house that we can afford, and actually live in. It sounds easy enough, but the housing market, here in Silicon Valley, is crazy.

I recently found a "crack house", that no one really did crack in,(but if it was in a different neighborhood they would have). It was listed at 729,000.
I walked through the place and found 2 bedrooms that were just plain sheet rock, a laundry room with a huge pipe running through the middle, and lots of ugly flooring, wallpaper and mold.

I got excited. I thought no one would want this place. Maybe we can under bid them and make it ours.

That is what the bay area has driven me to. I now think that unfinished, moldy, bare piped homes are a fine place to raise a family. I know the mold would have to go, but the rest I could live with for a while.

Alas, the crack house was not meant to be mine. It sold for 713,000; which was out of our price range. So I am back to looking.

I still am holding out hope that somewhere out there is a little house that will be mine, but until then I am scouting nasty little houses that I hope nobody else wants.