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February 28th, 2008 at 03:40 am

Saving log - $0 tip box
Spending log - $1.19 coffee, milk

It was a nearly no spend day; our temp treated me to lunch as a payback for me treating him a couple of months ago. He has only a couple more weeks with us, but he got picked up by another department for a few more weeks.

Now the not so nice news. Rent is going up by $30/month should we sign another year lease. We've only had a couple of rent increases in the 8 years we've been renting, need a place to sit out and watch as housing prices drop to our level, even with the new rent its still a good deal ... blah blah blah. Still mildly sucks.

FYI - walked past the 500K hovel with no view. The flyers are all gone. It could be that its a sign that new, reduced price flyers will come soon. Or the sellers found an idiot with money. Or the sign will come down.

DH wants to pick up a one-time cleaning. I dunno. Not that the place doesn't need it, but somehow it would be better if it was closer to the spring, in time for "spring cleaning".

5 Responses to “rent going up”

  1. PauletteGoddard Says:
    1204171036

    The "high-priced hovel" is an estate settlement. The executor of the estate used a local-to-him real estate agency (Hans Brown's office is in Lakewood). The appraisal price of the property is $265,000. The deceased owner had lived there for at least a decade: his wife/co-owner passed away in 1998. It had been priced at $540K.

  2. luxlivingfrugalis Says:
    1204206235

    Sorry about your rent!

  3. baselle Says:
    1204245276

    Thanks for the info. So it had dropped 10%.

    Interesting about the house - I wonder if the owner had owned it "free and clear", or whether there's a loan against it to pay for medical expenses. Or the heirs have some heavy debts that they were hoping the sale would pay off...

    Much more fun to construct a story than actually find out the facts. Smile

  4. PauletteGoddard Says:
    1204259005

    Actually I have been missing Joshua Koffler's weekly lists of King County and Snohomish County foreclosures. I think perhaps he was unable to keep up with 150+ weekly Notice of Trustee Sales to input weekly, on top of his real estate functions.

    Where there was no purchase date and a single owner I imagined an estate sale. Where the purchase date was fewer than 18 months ago I imagined an ill-timed flip, especially when entities had more than one Notice of Trustee Sales.

    I found it easier to give empathy to homemoaners who bought more than eight years ago and who didn't refinance their house to the point where they owed more than the original principal on their mortgage or their appraised value.

  5. scottmcg Says:
    1204735448

    Bummer about the rent :-( Unfortunately, that's the new norm I think. Gas, Energy, Bread......and now Rent!!! That's inflation hitting your landlord's pockets.

    I am new to this site, when you get a chance I would love to know what the saving log and spending log are? :-)

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