adventure in real estate by more-or-less proxy

[sistawendy]

My ex is terribly excited by what she says is the only house on the market right now, mainly because it's exactly where she wants to move. I mapped the transit and sent it to her: take a 50 or walk twelvish blocks to Columbia City station, hop on the train, go wherever*. The purchase price of the house is well within her budget because...

...it's a "fixer". It looks like somebody old and maybe poor lived there for a long time. Even the repairs shouldn't present a money problem given Ex's budget, but that's going to be a fair amount of time & hassle, and ugly in the meantime. It bears close inspection. As long as she doesn't screw our son, though, I don't care where she moves.

The big question in my mind is, how likely is a nebbishy-looking teenage white boy to get jumped on that stretch of Genessee St.? Not very, I hope. I suppose I could ask the same question of a middle-aged transgender white woman, but that wasn't what occurred to me first.



*The train goes to the Hill and the UW starting on the 19th. EEEEEE!

Comments

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I suspect she's more likely to get jumped than either of you.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

She can't walk that far because of her arthritis. In any case, the question no longer mattered: she's found out more about the house, and it's in worse condition than she's willing to deal with.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Good. Project houses are _always_ more than people are willing to deal with, and the only question is whether you realize that before or after you've bought it.