A small two-bedrrom condo. An easy bike ride or vigorous walk to work – my commute goes from about 10 miles to less than 2. I’ll be able to have a separate library/office, and the living room is big enough for my monster TV.
I should know within 12 hours if it’s accepted.
Congrats!
The joys of owning your own place. 
I wish you well on your bid!
Congratulations! Good luck!
I’m crossing my fingers for you.
Also, look at your post count. May your 4,000 post be the one telling us you have your own home!
Bingo! My offer was accepted (after a little back and forth negotiating)!! Whoohoo! We close October 20th. My new lucky number is 4,000.
Hey that’s great! Having your own place is really a neat feeling. Have you started mentally decorating yet?
Not so much decorating as thinking about where I can cram everything in. I have 5 large book cases and I’m wondering whether I will have to to a purge. I have 1/2 the grounf floor of the building, so I have lots of windows – on 3 sides in fact, and correspondingly less unbroken wall space. I may end up putting pairs of them back to back in the middle of the second bedroom, like library stacks. The 2nd bedroom also has an exit to the parking lot in the back, which I will likely use more often than the main entrance.
And I already have an issue to bring up to the condo association. The rear entrance is about 2 steps above gound level, and has a versy small wooden deck, rail and stairs. But the rail and stairs are set so you strp out and have to immediately turn 90 degrees to go down the stairs. Whay I want to do is turn the deck around, and reposition or take out the rail so I can walk straight out. This would allow me to roll my very long and heavy recumbent bicycle in and out without lifting it, or manuevering down the main entrance hallway. But that is part of the “common property” even though no one other than me and my guests would use it, so I need permission to change it.
I suppose this will tell me something about my association. My sister sold her condo and moved into a house just a few months ago, mostly because of idiotic association problems, and I worry about running into the something similar here. I still haven’t figured out how to determine in advance whether I’m buying into a dysfunctional assocuation. Even if I could go to a meeting to observe, that would take so long that somebody else would come along and make an offer in the meantime.
I was reassured however, when the door of a unit opstairs opened and out stepped one of my coworkers. Not anyone close, but at least we recognized each other, and he told me he’s been there for 8 years and never had any problems.
You’ll have great fun getting everything the way you like it, I’m sure.
Heck, I’ve been in my little shack ten years now and it’s still fun (except when the furnace bit the dust)
Being a condo, do they maintain that sort of thing? How about the yard work and sidewalks?
With a couple of exceptions, the association in responsible for everything outside my doors. The exceptions are the furnace and water heater, which are my responsibility even though they’re in the basement. Each unit has they’re own furnace and water heater. I’m not sure how they heat and light the common halls, but my $90/month association fee covers it.
May your closing go smoothly and your money not end up somewhere out in Never Never Land!