House for Sale!

- It's selling for $265,000.
- It needs to be painted really badly.
- It has mildew, roof and foundation issues.
- The original hard wood floors were destroyed by the previous owner.
- I lived here from 1999 to 2009.

A year and half ago, Mark and I moved from this house to the house I bought around the corner. We couldn't get out of that place fast enough. It turns out the owner of the house had stopped making payments months before we gave our notice, so it was foreclosed as we were moving out. Whew.

We imagined a family or an investor would buy it and fix it up. Instead, someone that seemed to be the previous owner's son bought it. It quickly became what looked like a base for selling drugs or prostitution. Some scary people came in and out of that house for a while. But, eventually, new signs went up that said the house was foreclosed again. Suddenly, all of the scary people went away but the house continued to dilapidate.

This week, there's a new For Sale sign up, and people are actually interested in buying it. (Including a super-hot muscle-daddy guy I saw the other day. Just sayin'.)

( I have a bonus story about people looking at the place. )

Part of the house hovers over our backyard, so we're hoping for the best. If it gets fixed up or torn down and replaced, I will be a very happy boy.