None For Me :(

[Kittiee Katt]

So we're currently in a rental house, which has been for sale for almost a year now (I didn't want to buy it, its falling apart around us) and has just been sold to a new investor (I just got off the phone to the realestate) This wouldn't bother me but in October last year we got approval from the old landlord to put in a huge pond. We've since spent hours planning and applying for council approval, waiting and dreaming, and then, when our pond plans FINALLY get approval, the house sells, and the realestate lady tells me that the new investor doesn't want a giant pond taking up 50% of their yard.. Grrr!!! Had we been approved a few weeks ago, we would have already started digging and the new landlord wouldn't of had much choice in the matter.. But no, the local council likes to take forever to approve things. Grrrr!

Sorry about the long boring post, I've wanted this pond for ages, and was getting excited about getting it, so after this, I just needed to vent.

 

[pops]

buy, there is no return on renting. and the house is not yours.

 

[Kittiee Katt]

buy, there is no return on renting. and the house is not yours.

I'm looking for a place to buy, but a low income makes it hard - banks are hesitant to give a loan to someone on such a low income. The previous owner was okay with my pond plans, but the new one isn't. I didn't want to buy the house I'm in, as it will cost more to fix it than what it will to buy it.. Literally, I could have gotten the house for 100k, but the cost of repairing it is closer to 150k, the place needs new everything, to the point where the floor in the laundry has a huge (almost a foot round) rot hole thingy, the entire floor in there needs to be ripped up and replaced.. Its more trouble than its worth really. I was extremely desperate for a house when I moved in. I don't plan on renting for eternity, just until we can get a mortgage.

 

[convict360]

hope you find a good solution soon

 

[Kittiee Katt]

hope you find a good solution soon

Thanks, me too. The first thing we'll be doing when we buy a house is installing a GIANT pond. I'm determined to have an oscar pond! And a goldfish pond, and a koi pond, and a trout pond... I love ponds.

 

[pops]

No offence meant Ebbi, after the housing bubble broke banks are pretty spooked. took us 8 months of working with the banks and realtors to buy this last house.

 

[Kittiee Katt]

Wow, eight months??? That's forever in 'Ebbi time'! I wish I was born 20 years earlier sometimes.. I feel like life would of been easier if I was my mums age, I could of brought a house in the 80s for 60k... And a nice house at that! unfortunately I wasn't even born in the 80s...

 

[pops]

have to keep in mind wages on cost of living back then, houses where not cheaper per say when put against what the average house hold made.

 

[Kittiee Katt]

Oops, yeah I forget about that. Still, would be cool to be able to say "I only spent 60k on my 5 bedroom, three bathroom mansion and the 7 acres of land it's on!" (Hypothetical house). As it is my younger siblings don't believe me when I tell them that sherbet bombs used to be two for 5¢, the look on their faces if someone told them that, would be priceless. Haha

Actually my 10 year old brother asked me of I watched the lion king in black and white! And if I could see a movie as a kid with 3 dollars (he'd been talking to dad about dads childhood) and still get change.. I wanted to slap him, I'm only 22!

 

[Oddball]

You're definitely not old. I remember going to a James Bond movie marathon. The theater ran every Bond movie for $2. All 7 of them. Gas was 40 cents a gallon back then. My parents 5 bedroom 3 bath split level 3200 sq/ft home on a 1/2 acre was under $13,000 brand new.