House % tentatively achieved!
4 years ago
General
My offer on a nice little condo a bit less than a half hour from my job was accepted. A quiet little well maintained complex with a car port, one of the two units on the ground floor that also manages to have full appliances despite only being 800 square foot. It'll be another several weeks of inspections and earnest money deposits and all that jazz before I actually take possession of it, but that's a nice shiny island of stability for me to anchor myself to found.
This does mean you'll probably not see as much commissioned stuff from me once I finally burn through this massive backlog, since any spare funds will likely be going into savings or upgrading my PC so I can finally do VR stuff with friends, presuming I manage to find a decently priced good condition graphics card, but I'll also be much closer to my local PC shop so I'll have more opportunity to do so.
At whatever point I'm living there on my own you can also likely expect that I'll be drawing a lot more, what with having the privacy of my own home, but that might be a bit since moving in winter will probably suck and I've got until probably early spring before I need to actually be completely moved out of here. (I didn't mention it but my family did relax on the "hey we'd like to try to get you moved out ASAP" stuff once I'd gotten a realtor and was actively hunting and it was clear there was no way I'd be free and clear to move in somewhere before December.)
This does mean you'll probably not see as much commissioned stuff from me once I finally burn through this massive backlog, since any spare funds will likely be going into savings or upgrading my PC so I can finally do VR stuff with friends, presuming I manage to find a decently priced good condition graphics card, but I'll also be much closer to my local PC shop so I'll have more opportunity to do so.
At whatever point I'm living there on my own you can also likely expect that I'll be drawing a lot more, what with having the privacy of my own home, but that might be a bit since moving in winter will probably suck and I've got until probably early spring before I need to actually be completely moved out of here. (I didn't mention it but my family did relax on the "hey we'd like to try to get you moved out ASAP" stuff once I'd gotten a realtor and was actively hunting and it was clear there was no way I'd be free and clear to move in somewhere before December.)
SlickDratini
~slickdratini
Excellent speedrun! Glad to hear you've made a result! ^O^
WesleyFoxx
~wesleyfoxx
OP
It sure felt speedy and not at the same time. It's a market where you've got a tiny, tiny window between something becoming available and it getting closed on. I was outbid on every previous attempt that wasn't already pending on offers. It's basically a time frame of "place hits the market, set up an appointment for the same day, following day at latest" and "place bid as soon after you check the place out as possible, make sure the time frame for the offer expires the day after it's sent then pray they accept it and no one outbids you in that window"
SlickDratini
~slickdratini
That reminds me of how it felt buying a graphics card, but rather than not being able to play games, it was more like not being able to live in a house. You have my condolences, but also my blessings for what is hopefully going to be your new home!
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