Once a week I read the classified ads in Michigan (and now some in Tennessee and even locally here in PA, too, just cause). When I’m done searching for a job that will relocate me to MI, I tend to wander off to realtor.com and look over the housing options that are within my price range in Michigan (since literally NONE are here in PA).
I don’t know if the current owner knows it just yet, but this is MY house. It looks like my house, it is described like my house, it has all the amenities I want in a house…it’s MY HOUSE. I just don’t have a job to get me there so I can buy it.
Three bedrooms, THREE bathrooms, two car (two story, even) heated garage, fireplace, arched doorways, three season room, fenced back yard, basement rec room (with bathroom). Sigh. I could move in today. Look at all the windows, and the curved front door. I can even look past all the snow and say this is the most gorgeous, perfect sized house I have laid eyes on.
Sigh.
Someone hurry up and tell me something dreadfully wrong with this place so I won’t want it anymore.
Blessed Little Things 
oooo… it looks like a postcard.ok. that probably didn’t help.
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you had me at heated garage
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oooh, look at all those windows, and that dormer….and entryway…and a birch tree, my favorite.yeah, sorry no help here either 🙂
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That house IS adorable. And I like that it’s in MI! :)But, um, it does look awfully snowy? (okay, that was a poor help in convincing you otherwise.)
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Well, there’s that birch tree blocking the one window…I don’t know about you, but that would really bug me…(does that help?)
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how about the price? anything with 3 bathrooms has to cost an arm and a leg.
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SL -Yeah, that birch tree…it’s really an eyesore, isn’t it?? Thanks, that helped (or I’ll try to think it did!!) LOLGB -Asking price is $15K more than my current mortgage on my condo. Yeah, see why Michigan ain’t so bad?
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How about,… You can’t see the ocean from that lot? Does that do it for you?
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Ok, so it sounds lovely, but remember….you have to actually clean it! And, the thought of a heated garage made me laugh. Remember…I’m from Texas so we have almost no need for heat here. Now an A/C would be a different story 🙂
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Hmmm….let me try getting my thoughts out again….you have to actually clean it – meaning you have 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms (think about it, 3 BATHROOMS!), and all of the other rooms that would take so much time and energy to clean….did that help change your mind?!?!?
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oh yeah, all that cleaning would definately clinch the deal for me to NOT BUY A HOUSE. I hate cleaning!!When I was a girl and we drove by nice houses my mother would say, “I wouldn’t want to clean it.”
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I would rather clean 3 bathrooms used by 2 people than 2 bathrooms used by 4 people. (Especially when 2 of those 4 are little boys!) 🙂
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Oh! Curvy front door! I’m a sucker for curvy front doors!
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Ummm…a house that big would probably take a really long time to dust. And vacuum. And….aww, who am I kidding? It’s gorgeous!
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way too many windows and baths to keep clean…and those trees, lots of leaves to rake…this is a seriously pretty house (sorry).
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