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To: Gauguin who wrote (29947)	6/25/1999 1:31:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

So cut her some slack about the cats, huh? We got approval for our financing, sent it to the guy and the guy countered our $285 with $305K. What he doesn't know, or probably care, is that I've got to make up the $20K out of my own savings, as we can't borrow more than $195 for a FHA loan. It will just about wipe me out, unless we can borrow against our retirement funds. Too bad I haven't been working, and don't have any money coming in the foreseeable future. I'd be left with enough to pay overhead for a year, but not fix my car if it broke down. I gotta start making money. Chris and I walked around the property yesterday evening. The lawn is the pits, if you like grass, it's almost everything else but. The bushes and stuff are very neglected. The gutters and drainpipes are very cheap. The furnace, a/c and water heater are original, and the house was built in 1965. It's going to need stuff done, and we won't have money to do it. And whoever repainted the front door used the wrong kind of brush and the strokes look shoddy. I would have stripped it, or at least sanded it, first, myself. And whoever painted around the windows got paint on the glass - I hate that kind of crap. I always tape. A really good painter doesn't need to tape, but he doesn't get paint on the glass, either. Nothing a razorblade and elbowgrease won't fix, but why have to in the first place? And the owner was too cheap to rent a dumpster, so the workmen are throwing all the crap into a pile next to the garage, broken glass, nails, the whole bit, all on the grass. I know they'll pick most of it up, I also know they won't get it all up, and I know if there was a dumpster or a skid I wouldn't have to pick up the bits they miss later. And some asshole threw an empty cigarette box into the hole for the footings on the deck. And I think he pissed in the hole, too. So the owner isn't watching the workmen. I've been by a couple of times to look things over, and the workmen are slacking off, and it's not lunch or break time. Stuff like that REALLY PISSES ME OFF. But I wrote an email to my old boyfriend in New Orleans last night, and this morning I had an email telling me that he and his wife offered $250K for the house next to them, and the owners laughed and sold it for $350K. I did not realize that housing prices in New Orleans had jumped like that. Am I making this too hard, or is it just hard for everyone? I am going to take the kids to the Air and Space Museum. Bye.