Monday, March 19, 2007
Open House
Monday morning, 10:26 am. 'Does Anybody Hear Her' [Casting Crowns] is playing on K-LOVE online. I'm wondering to myself how long this song will remain popular.
Pastor invited everyone to visit the building that we're trying to buy in order to have enough room to hold everything that's going on in our little 8,000 square foot church that we're packing ourselves into now. We are literally bursting at the seams. We had people standing in the back of a Sunday afternoon class last week, so we had to move to a larger room this week. It's awsome! The new building is about 40,000 square feet and used to be a rack server manufacturing plant in its last life. The main assembly room will be our auditorium. The building used to be used for building servers. We want to use it to build servants! I coined that - I think pastor liked it.
I'm a sucker for an open house. I can barely pass one in my neighborhood whenever I see one. I love looking at comparables; seeing what they did with what. I saw one near my house on Saturday that is being offered for about $360k. That's good and bad for me. Good because my place is nicer, but bad because I'm really looking for $388,888. That's two houses in Texas! but I digress. I'm wondering if my improvements will be worth $28k to someone. Things I my place has that theirs doesn't: double paned windows, front loading laundry, remodeled kitchen with granite counters and upgraded appliances, remodeled bathroom which wasn't a HomeDepot flip job. If you know what you're looking for, you can really tell a bad remodel from a good one. Then, there are the almost intangibles, like my double paned windows are actually two different thicknesses, which reduces noise from the outside by another 20 decibles. That's nice and all, but I'm not sure how I would word it in a listing. I also opted for more expensive granite because it just looked nicer. I spent about $300 more than I could have, but I think it will make a difference to a trained eye. Now, to find that eye - and the wallet attached to it.
The bad news is that my place is smaller, but that's one of the main reasons for the move in the first place. Caveot from a prior blog entry: I had stated that my hidden reason was to sell this place and move back into a house I had in Texas. I was keeping my options open and being available, but now I'm thinking about Morgan Hill.
Pastor invited everyone to visit the building that we're trying to buy in order to have enough room to hold everything that's going on in our little 8,000 square foot church that we're packing ourselves into now. We are literally bursting at the seams. We had people standing in the back of a Sunday afternoon class last week, so we had to move to a larger room this week. It's awsome! The new building is about 40,000 square feet and used to be a rack server manufacturing plant in its last life. The main assembly room will be our auditorium. The building used to be used for building servers. We want to use it to build servants! I coined that - I think pastor liked it.
I'm a sucker for an open house. I can barely pass one in my neighborhood whenever I see one. I love looking at comparables; seeing what they did with what. I saw one near my house on Saturday that is being offered for about $360k. That's good and bad for me. Good because my place is nicer, but bad because I'm really looking for $388,888. That's two houses in Texas! but I digress. I'm wondering if my improvements will be worth $28k to someone. Things I my place has that theirs doesn't: double paned windows, front loading laundry, remodeled kitchen with granite counters and upgraded appliances, remodeled bathroom which wasn't a HomeDepot flip job. If you know what you're looking for, you can really tell a bad remodel from a good one. Then, there are the almost intangibles, like my double paned windows are actually two different thicknesses, which reduces noise from the outside by another 20 decibles. That's nice and all, but I'm not sure how I would word it in a listing. I also opted for more expensive granite because it just looked nicer. I spent about $300 more than I could have, but I think it will make a difference to a trained eye. Now, to find that eye - and the wallet attached to it.
The bad news is that my place is smaller, but that's one of the main reasons for the move in the first place. Caveot from a prior blog entry: I had stated that my hidden reason was to sell this place and move back into a house I had in Texas. I was keeping my options open and being available, but now I'm thinking about Morgan Hill.
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