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To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (30235)	6/28/1999 12:34:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Ok Mel, you looked at houses. But you haven't finished telling us about New York. There's something that we are all waiting to hear and I thought it would have been asked by now. Did you get lucky? Find some nice guy and spend a coupla hours making the beast with two heads? Enquiring minds and all that.

To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (30235)	6/28/1999 12:40:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

We looked at one house yesterday that we really couldn't afford, but I had fallen in love with it a couple of weeks ago, and when I saw the open house I wanted to see if it were as beautiful on the inside as the outside. When we drove up to the house, I told Chris I didn't want to go in because we couldn't afford it ($470K), but he talked me into going in anyway. It was quite nicely "done", with Williamsburg style cabinets and hardwood plank floors, but we would have had to sell all our furniture (Mission style) and start all over. So even if we could afford the house (we "could" but then all our money would go to the house note) I didn't want it. Walk-in his'n'her closets are nice, and so is a separate spa room with an exterior door to the deck and the in-ground pool. But if I had those bucks, I'd build an indoor pool, instead, so I could swim year-round. There are almost no Victorians in the neighborhoods we are looking at. I think they pretty much got built up in the 1960's when the federal government got built-up for the Vietnam war and the Great Society. I have passed up the few Victorians I have seen for sale because they are all on major highways, which were just country roads when they were built. My old boyfriend in New Orleans lives in a very nice Victorian, but it's got termites.

To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (30235)	6/28/1999 7:39:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Mel, When the boys were babies, we used to put them in their carseats and head out to all the Open Houses we could find. It didn't matter what the houses cost, we knew we weren't buying. Every once in a while, we would come across a house like the one you describe, with so much love and attention in each detail. it was alive. I would so desperately want those houses, not just because of the condition, which was usually excellent, but because of the way that house FELT- all loved and happy and giving. A couple of times, older couples wanted us to have their house and were very willing to work with us, even offering to come down in price, just because I think they could sense someone who would love the house as much as they. So it probably IS hard to sell a house that has become a real presence for you, or maybe one in which you raised your children, filled with all those wonderful memories. I like to think of my houses inhaling the laughter and the happiness of our family and making it part of its personality.