Tuesday, March 11, 2014

The Perfect House


Friday afternoon Travalon and I had lunch at the Great Dane, then we went to the credit union to talk to a loan guy. The meeting seemed to go well, but the guy needs more information, so we don’t know yet about getting the loan for the house. In the late afternoon my band had a gig, and Travalon came along and listened. He liked our klezmer music best. I thought it was a free gig, but we got paid $10 apiece… and then we each got $20 more! Not bad for a free gig! Getting paid for making music never gets old! So after Travalon and I went to the East Side Club for fish fry (only we got baked haddock since we gave up fried foods for Lent), I bought him a drink at Le Tigre Lounge. It was crazy busy in there!

Travalon stayed over at Rich’s house, and the next morning we got some coffee before meeting our realtor to look at more houses. The first one was out of our price range, and we weren’t that impressed with it anyway, but Kathbert came along with Richard Bonomo, and she’s keeping it on her “maybe” list. The second one was kind of small and was just a few blocks from Toque McToque’s house, in a lovely neighborhood in the Arboretum. The third one was, in a word, perfect. It had a two-car garage, man cave possibilities in the basement (as well as a bar with colorful lights), a sunny room for plants, two bathrooms, and FOUR bedrooms, plus a huge yard. We almost didn’t want to look at the fourth property after that, but it was a very sunny condo with a cool basement, so we aren’t taking that off the list either. Travalon and I discussed our options over a late lunch at Sofra, then I talked to Richard Bonomo and Kathbert, and they wanted to see the perfect house. So Sunday after Mass, brunch, and doing my taxes, I went with them and Luxuli to see the house again. They declared it was a good house with no outstanding issues. (Rich even looked in the attic.) Some other people were also looking at it at the same time, so hopefully we hear about our loan soon, before someone else puts an offer on it.

Famous Hat

2 comments:

Hardingfele said...

We need pictures! Four bedrooms seems like a lot of house even with potential kids, unless you give the bunny, the cat and the dog individual rooms and the plants can have their own too

Famous Hat said...

One "bedroom" is a walk-through so we might use that as an office.