Wednesday, September 29, 2010
House hunting in Chicagoland
I'm in Chicago this week visiting Tarzan and sort of house/condo hunting. Unfortunately within 18 hours of being here I came down with a damn head cold so that is making me feel like crap. I did however meet my realtor yesterday and looked at 7 condos. I only liked 2 and both of them had an issue - the one that I liked the most was absolutely adorable, awesome paint colors, in great shape, but didn't have a basement. The other one was really nice - huge rooms, a finished basement, but it was kind of far from Tarzan's office and the yoga studio I hope to go to when I move here. Most of the other ones were total dives and looked nothing like the pictures posted online. Plus some of them had renters in them right now and OMG they live like total slobs. I cannot believe how some people live - it's disgusting. Tarzan found a great condo last week, but he failed to ask if they would accept cats and when I look on the Craigslist ad for that one, it doesn't say that pets are allowed. However it doesn't say that they are not allowed either, so Tarzan left her a message. I hope to see a few others before I go back to Michigan on Saturday. We had been waiting to see if Tarzan was going to Germany for training, but that appears to be on hold, so we are not going to wait. I hope we can find something before winter is upon us. We haven't tried too hard to rent out our house in Michigan and now Tarzan isn't sure he wants to rent it at all. We may just keep it and have 2 houses.
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Yes, amazes me the way some people live. I totally understand not wanting to rent your house, especially if you want to return to it one day. Are you searching to buy or are you going to rent for a while? Do you know the area where you want to live?
ReplyDeleteHi Erin - we are searching to rent. The only way we would buy is if we got a foreclosure deal that wasn't destroyed inside, but we are leaning more towards renting. We don't want to be tied down in case Tarzan gets transferred elsewhere with his job. We are looking in the towns of Crystal Lake, Algonquin, St. Charles, Gilberts, Cary, Dundee. They are all northwestern suburbs out past O'Hare airport.
ReplyDeleteHey Kelly!
ReplyDeleteIt's funny, Crystal Lake is where our first PBM was from! Any luck finding anything yet?
Yes, I totally wish you were here with me. Sightseeing is not nearly as much fun when you are alone! We would have especially had fun wine tasting today! But I am glad you are still going to get to go this year! Fun!
I hope you find something soon that you like soon! (Or maybe you already have?) I remember when we were house hunting -- yikes, some of the stuff we saw...! Made me wonder whether these people really wanted to sell...??
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