venting
I'm so bummed. I live just outside of downtown, in a fabulous condo with a fabulous landlady. She's the best and this place is great. We anticipated settling in for a few years here while figuring out "what next".
She called us yesterday to tell us that they are working towards buying some huge dream home, and will have to sell all their properties, so if we wanted first crack at buying the condo we could. Well that owuld be great, in a year, once credit is figured out and all. And she's asking about 150K over what 3 condos in the building just went for. She's nuts. There's no way.
She says that if they put it on the market she'll tell them that the tenants would be happy being here for a few years, but come on, what buyer is going to do that? And even if they did, the landlord wouldn't be our fave lady!
So we'll likely have to move at the end of the lease (she said they won't do anything until close to lease end). Again. That makes a move here this May, a move to the old apt (across the street) May of '07, in May of '06 we moved into the landlady's townhouse (awful place but brand new so she didn't know), and before that we were almost 3 years in a horrid apartment (landlady was the manager of the complex), before that we were a year in BIL's condo. Moving is expensive, stressful, and my son really hates it. But there's no way we can afford to buy this place. Renting was just fine.
Dangit.
Molly, I totally get how you feel. I have moved every year for the past three years. I hope you find something suitable for your family.
