Housing Woes

Recently, I began dipping my toes into real estate market.  This is not a kids game, folks.  Real estate is a grown up business.  Last week, I scheduled a meeting with a guy who wore sagging jeans and sneakers and arrived more than ten minutes late.  Standing on the street outside the place I was looking at potentially moving into did give me a feeling for the neighborhood, which did not help his guy's chances of interesting me in the property.  But enough about that... 

My list of things that I want in my first home are reasonable.  It's not as if I'm going to hold my breath until I turn blue until I get a place like this:

These photos give you a small taste of the fancy home shown above.  Go here to get your full fix.

I expect to deliver more Halloween goodies next time.

TL;DR: Searching for my first home is going to be far more of a challenge than I anticipated.   

Rooftop Gardens Part 2/2

I’d Move In

The pictures of this house really do speak for themselves but because the search engines don’t read photos the way humans do, I’ll describe.  

I'm in love with this fantastic house because it has a garden on the roof of the first floor.  If I am interpreting these photos correctly, one could actually walk out of a door on the second floor and onto the garden.   

If that isn’t cool enough for you, there is a climbing wall instead of a ladder to access a loft area.  All we need now is a larger version so that I could enjoy it rather than it simply being for kids.   

Get Down From There Billy, It's Daddy's Turn!

This place has nice things like hard wood floors and according to the architects it's built using sustainable materials.

Since I tend to think about how I could do that myself when I see impressive looking things, my first thought when I saw this place was "I wonder if I could build that using stacked shipping containers?"  I’m fairly certain that if I tried, I would fail in a massive way.  In fact, I think I would be lucky if the property wasn’t declared a Super Fund clean up site. 

I suppose what I should be thinking when I see a place like this is how can I earn enough money from the Clean Sheets and Dirty Girls blog to afford to hire the people at Feldman Architecture to build one of these for me.

Here is a link to an article that lists more details about the property.