House Hunting

Ah...house hunting. So much more fun looking at houses when you have nothing better to do on a Sunday afternoon as opposed to seriously doing it! When we moved here 3 years ago we didn't think we'd be here this long. It was just another military assignment - in and out in 3 years (or less). Now it turns out we will be here until Mark retires and we would like to stay here after that. So, we need to either refinance or move. There are also other considerations. Spence's school will not be the greatest. Also, and this could be a big one, behind the houses across the street from us is a four lane parkway. Right now it is lined with trees and you can neither see it nor hear it. There are two things proposed for that land behind the houses across the street: 1) The water authority wants to put in a bigger water main so they want to take an easement onto those properties and cut down all the trees. There will be construction and construction equipment there for 18 months (which, like all construction, probably means at least 2 years.) And 2) There is now a plan to widen the parkway by 2 lanes. Now this is all happening across the street and there are no final plans in place but still, it makes us think a bit. Throw in a slump in the housing market and the fact that 4 other houses on our street are for sale (one next door and one diagonally across the street to make matters worse) and I just don't even know if we can sell our house now. I'm thinking if we really had to sell we'd have to come in well below the other 4 houses. So we are house hunting to at least narrow down the neighborhoods we like but if we see something spectacular then what? Or we hope that nothing happens across the street and we put our house on the market early next spring when the house inventory is down. So that's where we are and it is confusing and frustrating but I do know that IT IS OK! (Love, love, love Ali Edwards!) Things tend to work out one way or the other. So that's the house hunting scoop for now! Happy Friday!