Right Church, Wrong Pew.....

Or is it?

In anticipation of our up coming visit to Deco Dirt City, I was looking around the MLS to see what the market is doing in my neighborhood. Not that I want to sell La Casita. I have friends looking right now, and I was more or less looking for things in my neighborhood that they might like.

Then I started looking for things that Best Boy and I would like. We know we can't afford to buy in Big Hipster City. The property taxes alone would require additional house hold members to make them and any property that's not in a flood zone is far beyond our reach in terms of price. Big Hipster City is home to 800 square foot shaks that go for $275K because you can see the right building from them. It's sad, really, it is. And aggravating to say the least.

And today, I found this:

Excuse the photo quality.
This is a 5 bedrooms, a two car work shop, a court yard and a guest house with courtyard, with a half acre behind it. It's located in a small town about 20 miles from Deco Dirt City, in the Rio Grande River Valley. And it's about a mile from the local light rail system that will run to Deco Dirt City and on to Artist's Heaven in 2009.

Here is the court yard

And here is more courtyard.




There are 15 pictures on the listing. I won't post them all. But it is everything that we wanted in a house. The size is more then we could have ever dreamed of. It is adobe, old thick walls, with stone and brick flooring in it. Vigas in the living rooms and kitchens and at least one fire place. Plus the all important Hacienda style court yard. The two car garage/work shop with 220 outlet already in place. (For the welder)

It is old, probably from the 1940s at least. Judging from the interior pictures it's probably only had a couple of owners, and has an elderly owner now. Or did.

It looks so nice and inviting. Best Boy asked me to stop showing him pictures because it was too perfect.

Except that it was in Deco Dirt City... Or close to it.


Why is this a bad thing you ask? DimeADance, you own La Castia. What would be wrong with own La Margarita? Nothing. Nothing at all. At least not right now. Not from this angle. Heck I'd call Chicano Greaser tomorrow and tell him to lay hard wood in La Casita and repaint the walls to a neutral color if I thought we could get all of it into La Margarita that quickly.

But that's me. And Deco Dirt City is farther from Former Home then Big Hipster City, and it is worlds apart. To me, this does not matter. I have little love for BHC, and less love for FH. To Best Boy it does matter and it matters greatly.

Who knows though, we are going to DDC in the next week, we have already planned to talk to Best Realtor Ever to see what the new laws that passing right now will do to borrowers and lenders. We have not ruled out the possibility of a drive by.

That balcony? It's bedroom number three, I could have sewing studio with a private entrance. Ooh... The thoughts... I could sit in studio and work and look out at the river at night...

And what does La Margarita cost? Because I know you want to know... $150,000.00. that's it.
Property taxes are less then $2K annually.

Divided by two, that's $75K each. If we got Chicano Greaser and Girl in on it. That's less then $35K each. With five bedrooms in the main house and a two bedroom guest house.. Why the heck not..

Sigh... I can dream...can't I?