Author: Brett
We have not been out house hunting since we lost the last one. It’s not that we can’t bring ourselves to look even though we are practically in mourning. While buyers all over the country seems to be getting great deals on homes, we have yet to see any houses we want to buy come down in price enough to be in our reach.
We have narrowed our search to two towns: Port Washington, NY, in Nassau County, Long Island, and Westfield, NJ, in Union county. Nothing new seems to be coming on the market since the end of last year (ok, last month if you’re an optimist). We flip between listings in each town. My MIL ponders whether the “new” listing in the New York Times is actually new to the market, or if it’s just new to The Times (every week I tell her that I think that it is new to the paper, but she still asks me anyway). She gives me scraps of paper with MLS numbers scribbled on them. It may or may not have a basement. I am to check it out if I feel like it. Later, she will ask me, did I find out about that house, the one she told me about a mere 6 hours ago? I think back to the last 6 blurry hours of solitary poopy diaper changes and sweeping far-flung cheerios from the recesses of the kitchen, cleaning running noses, rinsing dropped pacifiers, laundry washing, naptime orchestrating, clapping hands to “This Old Man” and “Itsy Bitsy Spider”. Huh? Listing? Which listing?Continue reading Housing Slump
