Workload

Well, my boss has just piled a huge box order on my desk, so I’m really not having time to think about my townhouse purchase—but it’s always weighing on my mind because I’m just so worried that I’m going to purchase one and end up hating it. I wish I had an endless supply of money for this purchase, so I could just pick my favorite based on everything else. Money is such a deciding factor right now, and I can’t get a fixer upper, because I don’t have the cash to pay for all the repairs that would be necessary.

Windows Vista

Holy moly, I just saw some information about this new Vista operating system, so I’ll take a minute from my townhouse rants to discuss it—has anyone gotten this OS, or are you planning to? I am always worried about Microsoft’s first versions of things because they tend to put out products before all the bugs are worked out. Has anyone else found this to be true?

Best realtor to choose

My realtor has assured me that they would never put me in a unit that is unsafe for me. As a single female, I need to take precautions that males or even couples don’t have to worry about, and it’s not like I have big guard dogs to protect me—they’re just yappy terriers.

Townhouse search continued

Does anyone have any advice for me about doing this townhouse search? I was unable to find any really good message boards about the neighborhood I am thinking of moving to, and that’s what I really need to find out. It’s difficult for me to be able to move to a place where I don’t really know the demographics of the neighborhood—like might there be gangs there or something? That worries me.

Realtors

So I am in talks with realtors, and they all seem to have an idea of which places are the up and coming ones, but I’m still worried about their predictions, because what if they’re wrong? Sure I could get a relatively nice place for less money in one “up and coming” place than a comparable unit in an already established place, but what if the developer decides to hightail it out of there before they really finish the community? I might be living next to a pile of dirt—and I’d never be able to resell that in 10 years…