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Originally Posted by hiknapster
If you are a brunette with brown eyes you stick out like a sore thumb!  |
I'm WAAAY behind in this thread, just starting to read from where I last posted on page 2. I'm a brown-eyed brunette, so I guess I'll stick out, then! Just mixed heritage, tho, with a bit of Irish, German and Native American. My hubby is a tall blue eyed blonde, so he'll blend in. Pittsburgh PA area, there are so many different heritages in the different areas, there's Polish Hill, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, German, and alot of Irish in the area, migrated here from the old country way back when, and alot stay in the old neighborhoods. Me - I'm a wanderer, which is part of my family heritage. Hubby is 100% Hungarian, lived in a hunky neighborhood, church and school. Furthest he's lived from where he was born and raised is now, about 10 miles. He's never travelled very much (I'm rectifying that!), and is a couch potato when he's not working (another thing I'm rectifying now that he's married to me!)
A real estate agent got my name and number off of a list I was on, called me on Friday. She was from Cookeville (pronounced 'Cukvulle'). Very nice lady, but I warned her that we won't be coming down until November to look around. So, she'll send me listings until then. One beef I had was, I told her our limit was $250k, so what did she tell me about first thing was a place for $350k!!! Come on now! Sounded nice, but ain't no way we'll get into deep debt. What we sell our place for, is what we'll be able to spend, plain and simple, and $250k is stretching it, as I think we may be able to get $200k at the most, but we'll see what the market brings then. It surprised me what people were selling at $200k+!! There's a junky looking modular down the road, smaller than my place, smaller yard, but has a pool, selling for $208k. That surprised us. So, we're doing some remodelling, will add a laundry room/pantry and powderroom at the back of our big garage to bring up the value and price of our place, at little investment. We updated the 1950's kitchen into a gourmet kithen at a cost of $11k, which upped the value $35 - $50k immediately, painted the outside, painted the living room, and have the bathroom(s) to remodel yet. Plus, I just got a new job, so, I'll sock 3/4 of what I make into the house. Oh yeh, a little curb appeal needs to be done yet, too - like flowers, and putting up the decorative light pole (that we got on clearance at Home Depot) at the driveway entrance. I LOVE clearance sales, discount stores and Ebay! I picked up marble tile at Builders Surplus dirt cheap - enough to do our bathroom. Hopefully, I'll have enough tiles left to put on the fireplace as a surround. Wish I had enough to do the foyer also, but I know there's not enough - I'll just have to pay another visit to the store. They did have some other marble there, but even discounted, it was still too much for us.
Well, I'll go thru the rest of the thread and see what else I can comment on.... Beautiful day outside!
blessings, Shen
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04-22-2007, 12:02 AM
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