Real Estate Dramas in Trichotomy

Afford to be picky

So far, house prices are high, and the ones that fall in our price range all have some issue with it. We often wonder to ourselves what the homeowners were thinking putting in features that were interesting. (We had a homeowner convert one of his garage spaces into a cat habitat, for example).


Just as well though - we are in a comfortable enough position to wait. And the longer we wait, the more savings we have to push up our price range, and also hopefully the market will have calmed down a bit.


- D

Just a scare

The in-laws traveled down here to stay with us this past week for a meeting with an Alzheimer specialist here, to get a second opinion of his diagnosis. It turns out my father-in-law’s likely does not have Alzheimer, just regular dementia, so that was good news. We were all relieved.


But, this also means the in-laws won’t be moving here. That worries me, since I am not impressed with the health care where they are (see: the mis-diagnosis and late diagnosis). I suppose that means they would need to drive down here to get their health appointments with specialists, which I think would be an issue. But I guess not for them: even now, they do an hour drive each way to Rochester for nerve pain management every few months, and to Syracuse for eye issues, and the last few times they’ve needed to drive 3.5 hours down here for cancer treatment follow-ups. But as their specialist visits rack up, I am not convinced staying put is the best way.


I suppose I am in the minority that want their in-laws close by.


- S

Take over

While the in-laws were visiting, we locked the rabbit in our office during the night so we could get access to his habitat, which is now converted back for human use. But while humans are in the house, we allow him full access to the house as well. So his territory is expanding. Now I am considering letting him roam the house full time, and we fence off our office table (the only bit we can’t rabbit-proof because of all the electric cords and cables) in a corner so he won’t get access to it. Ironically, it’ll be the exact same location where we fenced him off when we first got him.


An die Musik predicted the rabbit would take over the house. It’s coming true.


- N

Last updated June 20, 2023