New Year Updates

My girlfriend and mother got out of the hospital on new year's eve, actually at about the same time.

Both are doing pretty well, and keeping me very busy. Thanks to everybody who messaged me here and on AIM, I appreciate it.

Other than that, my girlfriend and I are working on cleaning up the place all day today. It's 61 degrees, so I just cleaned out my disgustingly dirty truck. I was sealcoating until the end of the season, and figured I'd get to it about a week or two after I finished up, but cold weather and then like a month of ice/snow really took care of that.

I'm also moving my desk/PC setup into the second bedroom of our place. Right now it's in the master bedroom, which is pretty long (like 20ish feet) but since the second bedroom and bed is hardly every used these days, I finally won the battle of making it an office of sorts.

We're hoping to move either in a few weeks or few months, our lease is kind of weird. It expired last month, but the owner never called us back after reneging on the promise that the drug addict next door would be gone. Supposedly he'll be gone the 23rd of this month, but I'm not signing/doing anything in regards to this place or a new place until he's gone (or I find something I truly can't pass up).

I'd like to purchase a house, the market is so great for buying right now. The only problem is I'm probably a little short if I push it for a down payment, but that would be with good credit. Mine isn't really good right now, or established enough to be worth much. Doing some research, it would take me 8-10 months I believe to get it to where it needs to be.

So my other option if I can get a house, would be an investor/partner/personal loan. I'd much rather go the route of the first two, it would put me in a much more comfortable spot with less of my money tied up in the present and near future. This is all still a fairly long shot, I haven't had the time in the last two years to really keep up with a lot of my friends/contacts in the city that had money for this type of thing, so it really only leaves a few people that I know well enough that might be interested in doing something like this.

The most likely route is my girlfriend and I moving closer to my mom's house (for a lot of reasons besides her MS diagnosis) and signing a 6 month lease. By then I should have the money to put down on a house and hopefully good enough credit to get a decent loan.

Until I figure out what's going on, I'll keep reading up as much as possible about real estate and talking to as many people as I know who are involved in the business.

I'll upload pics of my new setup tonight or tomorrow with my new digital camera my mom got me for Christmas.