it's apparently not my week...

[tollermom]

There's a diesel VW Beetle in Memphis that looks like the perfect car to end my search for a fuel-efficient daily driver, and I had a friend lined up to drive me to Memphis tomorrow to help me look at it and potentially bring it home.

Apparently just _yesterday_ a guy put a hold deposit on it.

*sigh*

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[mbumby.livejournal.com]

Make sure the seller knows you're still interested. The house we wanted got money put on it hours before we decided to do the same, and a month or two later something happened to the financing or something, and they came back to us.

[tollermom]

When I talked to the seller today I told him that I'd call him tomorrow afternoon and see if the guy who's looking at it decides to take it. If he doesn't, I'll put a deposit on it then and my Dad's agreed to go up and look at it for me (it's 90 miles from him... compared to about 500 from me).

Did you wind up buying the house after the first buyer fell through? (I'm house-shopping too, so it's always interesting to hear other people's experiences!)

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

Yep. Still living there.

It probably was the best house for us, but I have one gripe. We're both pack-rats, and had each come from about 1000 square feet, so we figured that 2000 square feet was about right. Most of those were more expensive than I was comfy with but this one, listed at 2100, was in about the right price range. It's a split level. Once we moved in, though, I measured it, and the only way they got that number was by including the non-finished, lacking-egress basement, which some people say is proper and others say is illegal.