November 12, 2005

  • The past two months I pretty much lived in two homes, my own home and
    my girlfriend's home.  I would average about four to five days at
    my girl's place, which is a lot more than the one or two day average
    that I used to do.  For the most part, I'm rather enjoying it, and
    if anything else, it makes me want to completely move in with her. I
    honestly can't say right now if that will happen or not, but it's
    crossed our minds a lot lately.

    On a related note, we've talked about our future home together that we
    plan to own.  There are currently two choices at this time. 
    Her current home (owned by her Mom) or a house that her Mom is using
    for rental purposes (recently vacant). I visited that house recently
    and with some fixing, it's actually quite nice. It's a one story house,
    two car garage, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a study, living / dining
    room, family room connected to the kitchen, and an additional patio
    room at the yard. In the current market
    value here in California, my girlfriend's house is currently $800k
    while the rental place is $600k.  If the market stays that way in
    two years (our current time frame goal), we're most likely going to
    choose the rental place to purchase.  But if the market goes down
    at that time, we'll just purchase the house she is staying in right
    now. We'll just see what happens.