-I’m tired. I’m always tired. But it’s nap time now and instead of curling up for my (almost) daily nap I have to go get in the (rental) car and drive to school. Does anyone else see why this is bad? I’m in class until 9:45 tonight. Then I get to drive home. No really. Does anyone else see why this is bad? Considering that I am driving a rental car cause I rear ended someone while falling asleep? Awesome.
-For some reason LJ isn’t showing me icons. Not mine, not anyone else’s and I don’t know why.
-The continued evolution of sex during pregnancy is confusing and difficult and complicated by a few very specific things right now. I really wish I could feel more secure right now.
-I messed up giving Puff her medicine this morning. 🙁 I was overzealous and I managed to push the medicine out harder and faster than is good and I think I sent it “down the wrong pipe.” She struggled to get away after that and was pretty miserable as she kind of coughed/sneezed for a while. I feel bad.
-I’m overall not feeling very intellectually with-it right now. Although, I have to say, despite feeling like I am walking in a foggy haze I like Derrida. He’s a snotty French Deconstructionist. Now I have a name for the pedantic over-analyzing that I like to do! Yay! You can’t take things at face value because language is inherently flawed. This rocks my socks off.
-Including today I have six days of class left. That’s it. Period. That’s the end of my classes for my degree. That’s pretty intense. Of course, I still need to pass the comp exam and the language test. I’ll worry about that later.
-Still feeling kind of sad and withdrawn. I’m sorry I don’t have more to give anyone.
-My therapist should be calling in the next day or two to schedule an appointment. Have I mentioned that I’ve missed her?
-Freaked out about selling the house now. I don’t know how I really feel about the possibility of not moving any year soon because we missed the housing market bubble. It isn’t worth it to sell our house at a really low price. It will mean staying for a while, maybe quite a while. I was really adjusted to the idea of leaving so now I don’t know how to reconcile staying. There are good things about staying, but in my head I was already half gone…
About the house
This is not advice, it’s questions to think about.
Can you rent the house for enough to pay for itself while you’re not living there? What are other houses in the area renting for?
If the house is being rented out at break-even, can you afford to buy in Pittsburgh on your anticipated income? (By “you”, I of course mean you and Noah.)
I tried twice to rent out my house: once in July-August last year, and once recently. In July-August, I had to lower the rent I was asking to get people to look at the house, and I only had one good applicant, who took a different place. In March, when the sale listing expired, I listed it for rent at the higher rent I’d asked in July. I had two good applicants, and I now have a tenant, at that higher rent.
Re: About the house
We could probably rent the house out at break-even. Landlording from Pittsburgh would be a difficult proposition, though. And renting the house will tend to make it shabbier over time since renters will be less likely to take care of it than we would, and *far* less likely to do important repairs and maintenance that suck.
It’s possible to rent through a company that takes care of such things. I wouldn’t trust them to do much better at keeping the house in good shape, though.
We could buy a house on our Pittsburgh income, but our much higher total debt (no money from CA house to put down) means that we’d be paying a substantially higher mortgage in Pgh, wiping out some of the cost-of-living reduction. Since we’d be in worse shape in Pittsburgh *and* a CA house to keep rented out, we’d be substantially increasing our risk if something bad happened (trouble getting tenants, CA rental market downturn, fire/earthquake, etc).
Re: About the house
I understand that you have different views about risk than I have. You have brought this up before. I’m still not interested.
I worry about you driving when you’re that tired. Please take very good care of yourself, ok?
On the positive side, once class is finished there’s no place you HAVE to be for a while.