Hey, we're moving to Venice! After only five days of looking we found a place that rocks. Nice rear duplex, 5 blocks from the beach, hardwood floors, enclosed yard for the kitties. And the listing was wrong, so we're getting it for a hundred dollars cheaper than intended: only $1050!
For those of you outside of SoCal or some other insane housing market, yes, that's a good deal. Frightening, but we've plopped down more than $60,000 in rent over the last four years. Why didn't you buy? Because we don't have half a mil!
We hope this is our last rental, but buying here is scary. Takes a lot of money, and the market fluctuates wildly. You easily can see your place drop a hundred grand or more in a downturn; just hope you don't need to sell then. Well, we'll see.
At least the kitties are happy.
Posted by yozhik at April 24, 2003 04:07 PM