Category: House stuff

Well, it’s official now. The new owners of our apartment complex bought this place to turn them all into condos. According to the letter found on my door this evening, we should be getting an official letter soon about the conversion process. I’m just hoping that the prices will be reasonable so we’ll be able to scrape together enough dough to buy our unit so we don’t have to move again.

I’m sure this will be an interesting process. Hopefully not a painful one.

According to one of the maintenance guys for the apartment complex I live in, it might be getting turned into condominiums sometime in the near future. So that means either we’ll be moving again sooner than planned, or we’ll be buying sooner than planned.

It seems to be a growing trend around here (and probably elsewhere) for apartment complexes to turn into condos. An apartment complex down the road from us turned into condos earlier in the summer.

I suppose if the price is reasonable, then buying is definitely something to consider. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.

The wife and I have decided it’s time to buy a house. We both agreed that since we’re not planning on moving again anytime soon, we’re ready to jump into home ownership. So, to educate ourselves on the home buying process, we headed off to Barnes and Noble and picked up Home Buying for Dummies and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buying and Selling a Home. Looked at a few books in the store, and decided on these ones. I figure in about a year and a half or two, once we’ve paid down some of our credit card debt and saved up for a down payment, we’ll finally have our own home somewhere.

I’m looking forward to it.