More Backstory

Last time I went into the backstory, I mentioned we found a goldmine in an outlying area. There were several cheap houses out there. It was a nice, quiet part of town, and we had never really explored it before. By this point we had a different real estate agent; the first wasn't really responsive any more when we'd call her up. This new one, however, was more than willing to take us around to whatever houses we wanted. Well, we found a few houses that looked really good in their photos, went and saw them, and realized that photos do not tell the whole story. The place we were really interested in had obvious foundation issues, and it was so small that we couldn't really fit any furniture into it.

The best fun came the next time we looked at houses; we saw one that had been in a fire. The place was CHE-EAP, but it was half burnt, and that would require redoing all of the electrical wiring in the house. Also, one of the bedrooms was adjoined to the attic, which was itself adjoined to the great outdoors.

We considered the "Fire House" for a while. We went to a book on current contracting prices and figured that it would cost more to get the place up to snuff than to buy a house that wasn't burned out.

It was a while before we really looked at houses again. By this time, we were looking at renewing our lease at the apartment complex for another year, and we didn't have any good housing prospects, so we signed up to stay on the third floor. With an increase in rent. [sigh.]

1 Cor 3:13-15 - Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.