First and foremost, I fucking hate HostGator and am currently looking for a new place to house my servers. Upgrading to WordPress 3.7.1 almost completely had the servers shut down because of how often WP was being called on for updates. Now, this was easily controlled with a wp-config update that marked all auto-updates to false. I’m pissed because this is something that should have been built into WP directly with an “Enable/Disable” function but whatevs. To tell me that two sites are using 80% of the server-load is bull shit considering there’s 30 CPU’s available to it. So yea, they fucking suck.
In the “Home” front, we’ve been searching, searching, searching. We’ve seen more than I can remember, and while some were doable, others were just “Uhm… wtf did we just walk into?” We’ve narrowed down the area we want to live in, as well as the basic requirements that need to be in the house before we even consider looking at it.
Right now it’s the matter of waiting on the broker to get all of the numbers crunched. We have the pre-approval for $250,000. He’s finalizing the paperwork so that it’s a pre-qualification. This gives us the ability to look within the price range, and if we happen to find a house he’ll be fast-tracking the paperwork as much as he possibly can. Since everything we’re looking at is either a stick built or a class-c there’s absolutely no reason for there to be any kind of issue popping up that’s completely illegal. We got screwed on the last house because the lender (not the broker) blacklisted the community, this is 100% not legal and I’ve already reported to the proper authorities but really don’t care enough to pursue more than that. It’s cheaper, in the long run, for Sean and I to just buy a house on it’s own property and go from there.
We’ve found a house that we love, the listing price is $249,900. Built in 1977, 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, living room, dining room, kitchen, family room, floored attic, unfinished basement, decent sized yard, huge front porch and a nice cozy back deck, and since we’re in a beach town of course it comes with an outdoor shower. Is that a waste to me, yes, but it’s easy enough to remove if we so choose.
It’s a relatively lightly used house, even though it’s over 30 years old it was very well cared for and you can clearly tell just by looking at it. I’ve never been in a cleaner basement in my life. Sean and I already know how we’re going to frame it out and set it up. If we do it right, considering the massive size of the basement, I can easily turn the 3 bed 2 bath into a 5 bed 3 bath with an office. That’s the ultimate goal over time. The other goal would be to do some upgrades in the kitchen but that’s something that can come later on down the road. For right now, since it’s just the two of us the kitchen shouldn’t be an issue – but in the long run when families start visiting… and one gets started… the increase is going to need to happen.
Maybe it’s an Italian thing, I don’t know, I just know that teaching someone to cook, or having a mini-assistant is important to me and that’s just the way it’s gonna go.
So we’re taking a second tour on Monday with Sean’s father so he can do a once-over of the house as he has more of a ‘contractors’ eye with things, hopefully putting in an offer the same day and then crossing our fingers and playing the waiting game. Everything seems to be falling into place thus-far… hoping it runs the same way.
