I get so MAD!

September 19th, 2003 at 09:45pm Posted by Bill

We’re moving next week-end. After plenty of thought and a long discussion with Kathy, we have decided to give up our manufactured home in Lafayette. We still owe more than $54,000 on it, and it is worth less than $38,000. Some of our new neighbors have cars that are more expensive than their houses. The gal across the street paid $30,000 for her house. Didn’t finance it, she wrote a check for $30,000. There’s no way we will be able to get out of this for a long time.

We started looking in Portland last week-end, and narrowed our search to places with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms or more, and that would allow us to keep our pets. We looked at two houses Sunday. We were almost immediately denied for the first one, and were waiting to hear back on the second one. Kathy found a place Tuesday in Beaverton, and went to look at it Wednesday night. She faxed the application to the owner Thursday morning, and Thursday afternoon we were approved. The second place we looked at in Portland called us on Friday to approve us. We decided to go with the house in Beaverton.

It has 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, with a small office area between the two upstairs bedrooms. It has a fireplace, a huge fenced backyard, and an attached garage. 1700 square feet.

Here are a bunch of pictures (Kathy took them, so blame her for the fuzziness of some of them)

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