today's power tour

Today I looked at 12 houses with my patient realtor and my rockstar friend B. I may or may not have found one. Indecision, my longtime companion, came along for the ride with us as we whisked through houses with varying degrees of success.

This one, to the left, is not a winner: gigantic crack in the foundation.











This one is not a winner, either. Can you guess why? "Recent remodel."
















This one needs at least $50,000 of work to be safe and tenable. What does it need, you ask?
*rewiring
*oil tank excavation (the bad kind)
*heating conversion from oil to gas
*entire kitchen remodel
*new floor in bathroom
*interior and exterior paint
Major project. It's got a really weird floorplan, but really good potential. Someone needs to love it and bring it back. I'm actually considering it... but only vaguely.

But, well, this one... this one is pretty gemmy. Down and dirty 'hood, sweet sweet sweet interior. It smells badly of floor varnish inside, and after 10 minutes I began to feel nauseated. So, I'm looking into that. But my golly, it is a cute house. And I went back later on to patrol the neighborhood for unsavories and pit bulls, and met a very sweet neighbor named Jules, who is just as dolly as the house is.

I'm exhausted.

I shouldn't be thinking about this any more today.

But I am.