It may not be an accurate mindset, but as of Saturday I entered "any day now" mode about medical school. I will exercise my restraint by only checking the mail once a day, which really is not hard to do since I am not there.
Lee and I went house hunting this past weekend. It is unbelievable what things are going for now. Lee and I planned on finding something that was a little dated that we could spruce up over time but the new constructions/renovations are SO cheap that there is no way that we could ever remodel so well for the relative price difference. Just to give you an idea, there was one place that we saw that was immaculate. Absolutely the best materials available. The area is one that has been undergoing gentrification for the past couple decades. The street it is on is very nice though. It was a 3 unit building, all basically the same. The top unit sold for 333,000 in 10/07. The bottom unit sold for 310,000 in 6/08. The middle unit dropped its list price to 219,000.
The only drawback to the weekend was that we found out that a lot of condos do not accept FHA loans. Unfortunately, living in areas close to mass transit means looking at condos almost exclusively. We are diligently scrounging every penny and trying to find additional work where possible. It is our hope that 20% might be within our reach at closing and that we don't wipe ourselves out in the process. Meanwhile, we are trying to obviate the supplemental condo association hoops.
Anyone out there need any medicinal chemistry consultation?
-JohnMark
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