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To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (39527)10/11/1999 10:20:00 AM
From: jpmac  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 71178
 
Just got rid of one stress and walked into another, huh? It is a wonderful place to live. And it sounds like one reason for a move is to be closer to the bay, but another is to have a little house with a yard. If you're where you want to be for a long time, don't let anyone scare you off from a house if you can swing it. You can handle it. And if you don't already know how to do simple plumbing (leaks, replacing p-traps, etc.) I bet you could learn just fine. And other basic home repairs with it. If you enjoy a house and yard enough, a larger mortgage could partly be paid for by coming out of *entertainment* money. A house can be entertainment in itself if you like fixing it up and working in the yard.



To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (39527)10/11/1999 10:39:00 AM
From: Crocodile  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 71178
 
Even if you think it will be awhile before you'll be ready to buy a property, it's not a bad idea to start looking. Before long, you should develop a very good feel for what's "out there". By the time the "right" deal comes along, you'll know it when you see it.



To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (39527)10/11/1999 11:42:00 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
A townhouse or a bungalow is all you really need, anyway, right? Being on the bay sounds so nice. We talked a little bit about buying a house close to the Potomac, but for some reason just never looked seriously. It would have been such an uprooting, and such a long drive for me to get to my office, but now I've moved my office, anyway.