Wow, I am getting so lax in posting in LJ. I used to post almost every day! It's not that I don't want to, I just have no time. First off, I know some of you are curious, so here's the low-down on the house:

1. We did not pay Shady Landlady September rent. We knew we were probably going to never hear back from her again, and thus not get our deposit back, so we left her a message on her phone informing her to keep our $1200 deposit and use it for our September rent (also $1200). Also sent a letter certified mail to cover our butts but she never picked it up from the post office and it got returned from me. Oh well!


2. The house was sold back to the mortgage company on September 23. Keith went to the auction. The bid to beat the bank was $94,000 something, which gave Keith hope that he still may be able to buy it.


3. We were able to get in contact with the mortgage company... thing and Keith has been talking to them about buying the house. At this point, we're waiting for them to call to schedule for a broker/house inspector guy to come out to take a look at the house, and then they'll decide how much they want for it. Hopefully it won't be too outrageous. This is a really nice house, except for the bugs.

  In other news, things have gotten intense around here. I don't even have time to worry about the house.

1. Work was giving me 20 hours a week which was coming to about $130 a week for me, and it wasn't really cutting it. So I was offered a third job (another FSU webpage) and I accepted it because I had the time and I needed the cash. They want me to give the website a complete redesign.


2. The Sociology webpage also needs a complete redesign (this is all FSU's fault for changing their damn layout again -- they make all the dept. pages comply to the new layout). I mean, this is great, 'cause I'm going to get a lot of money from it, but --


3. Both of my classes this semester are asking for a paper to be due every weekend, so I have two papers to write every week until the end of the semester --


4. And hours suddenly, for no apparent reason, shot up at Staples. So I just jumped from 20 hours a week to 29 this week, 29 next week and 35 the week after that. Which is great, as I'll finally make some money and be able to keep it, but goddamn.

  So... yeah. I have no idea what I'm going to do. I told this guy that I'd be able to have time to do the new webpage, and now I suddenly don't have that time, but it's too late. This is the most I've had to work a week at Staples in a long time... I asked to be brought down in hours because I didn't have enough time for school, and now I'm back up at hours and my two other jobs are being really demanding. I really, really need this money, and I'm trying to be grateful, but I am honestly wondering how I'm going to get through this semester.

  So don't worry about me if you haven't heard from me in a while... I'm drowning in a sea of work of all kinds. I'll try to post with any house news I get though.

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  So. I was the happiest I've been in a long time, for a lovely, brief month, which was a wee bit tainted by the end of the semester and the god awful assignment... and now I'm the saddest I've been... in a very long while.

  Let's keep it simple: The house is foreclosed.

  This beautiful, too-good-to-be-true (what do you know, it really was!), perfect-for-us house... was rented to us by a real good for nothing bitch. Yesterday we got mail, addressed to her, from a foreclosure attorney. I panicked immediately, but everyone tried to persuade me that it may be for one of her other properties, or something. Later on, I did some research, figured out how to access public records online, and yep, sure thing, this house is foreclosed. It's been in the process of being in foreclosure since DECEMBER 2008. She lied through her teeth to us. She has a bunch of other properties in foreclosure, too, including her own house. And of course we can't get a hold of her.

  This house is going to be sold at auction September 23. We will have lived in it for less than three months.

  My mom says that there's a small chance that the new owner may want to rent it to us, and thanks to the bill signed by the President in May 2009, renter's rights are much better, and we are allowed, by law, at least 90 days to get our shit together and find a new place to live. Keith wouldn't even mind buying this house, except that since it's going up for auction it's probably not possible.

  I spent all of last night crying, but I'm getting better. I just don't understand how something like this could happen to me. What did I ever do to deserve it? I was really, really happy here.

  I PAINTED TWO FUCKING GODDAMN ROOMS.

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  I'm having one of those days where I've compiled such a huge list of stuff I need to do that I don't know where to start and end up doing nothing all day long. Sigh. Gotta go to work in about an hour so at least that solves that problem. :P

  One week till we can start moving in. I just want to get it over with. I have so much to do... :(

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  Things are, for once, going amazing here. We've been spending our last few weeks looking at different houses, and at first it seemed like kinda a bust, having to always choose between having a washer/dryer or having a garage, or between lots of space or a remodeled interior, and finally we just got lucky and found a house that had... everything. We had lunch with the lady today, and though even after initially telling Keith she wasn't really down to renting to a bunch of 20-something roommates, I guess we were able to convince her that we weren't partying crazy folk.

  Went to see the house tonight and it's... beautiful. More than I could have ever asked for. I was trying to be very open-minded with these houses, realizing that we can't really ask for too much and probably won't get too much, but this house is beyond anything I would have ever imagined. Better than my house or any of my friends' houses, honestly. It's a huge, 2005, 2000+ sq. ft. home, four bedrooms, two bathrooms, tons of closet space, huge kitchen with brand new appliances, plus a washer and dryer, also pretty much brand new, whirlpool garden tub omg, and cat-friendly. And it's only had one tenant before us.

  And we get to move in July 1! I can't believe it's only two weeks away!

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  So I guess after we get back from Oregon, Keith and I are going to start looking into renting houses. D: Neither of us are really apartment people, and renting a house is only slightly more expensive (actually about the same price when you consider that a house has way more rooms and stuff -- crazy). Also renting a house gives us the option of having that elusive third person.

  For all my worries about moving out on my own (and with a boy or possible multiple boys if we can get the 3rd person), and all the money I will be throwing out the window, at this point I think the pros far outweigh the cons.

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