march 2010
march 9 2010 14:28 pst it's been sunny and 60 for the last few weeks, but it got cold enough to snow a little bit last night. there was white stuff on car windows and houses, but not really enough to stick anywhere on the ground. it's all long-gone now. which is suppose is a good thing, because the word is that if it snows more than an inch or two here, everything shuts down and people just give up trying to drive anywhere until it melts.
we closed on the house last week. it was kind of a bitter pill to swallow, but from a purely financial perspective it was better to get rid of it now, while the $8000 federal tax credit was still available to buyers and while interest rates are low. the only thing that might have gone better for us would have been if the open house was on the saturday instead of that sunday in january, because saturday was sunny and then sunday it rained all day, and i'm sure more people would have come out to see it if the weather had been nice.
we agreed that selling it fast was the highest priority and everything else followed from that. we count ourselves as fortunate that we were able to close the deal and walk away with a bit of money- we know far too many people who can't sell unless they're willing to make what amounts to a second down-payment in order to close out their loan.
apart from the money, it's sad that we won't get to see the garden come into bloom this year. but that's how it goes i guess. there is a community garden space nearby, so we might have some vegetables over there. and now we can focus on other things...