Sitting in the Dark...

We're almost through with our second week of school. The first week was rough. I though I might be looking for a job, but I had a good talk with my principal and things look like they're probably going to turn out ok. He was very understanding, which I wasn't expecting at all.

So, now I'm sitting in the dark in the library, which I will very likely be moving out of in the next week. Faculty meeting is over, and I think I'm more or less alone in the building. I was trying to get a new version of Windows Media Player installed on the circulation computer so I could synch my mp3 player and load a couple of audio books I downloaded from the Salt Lake City Library page. But there seem to be redundant layers of protection on them and if there's a way that I can get through our system's security, and the security on the files, and get them to agree that neither one is going to shank the other in the back on the way to my ears, I can't figure it out.

I no longer have internet access at home, so I'm doing things like this after school. That means until I have a new place of my own with my own connection, posts will be scarce.

About buying a house... As I was afraid of losing my job these last two weeks, I kind of dropped off of looking, but I guess I'm on again. But as the summer has come to a close the houses coming to market are in worse shape and worse locations. I think I may have missed my window.

I never posted about it, but the house on 13th East that I liked came back on the market and I made an offer on it about a month ago. We didn't hear back on it from the selling agent by the time I had set for the end of the validity of the offer. Rich kept calling the agent but never got any reply. Eventually a week after the offer was supposed to go cold, Rich got a hold of the selling agent's office. They said the selling agent went out of town on vacation the day my offer went in, and they didn't know when he'd come back. We've never hear anything more.

I don't think selling agents actually care about selling houses in my price range. Rich says many of them won't even list them because the stakes are so low. I'm frustrated by the situation.

We did finally hear back from the selling agent on the house on 4th East. He said that I was still the highest offer even though it has gone to short sale. They think if I would pay $120,000 the sellers and the bank would go for it. That was very useful. It was a number slightly higher than the asking price I think. Even after that I'd have to replace the roof, trusses and all, and I don't like the neighborhood that much. It's about as low quality as the east side downtown gets.

I'm starting to think more and more about trying to build a house myself. Could it be any harder than trying to get someone to sell me one?