I’ve looked at more properties in the last week than I have since I started on the initial renting venture (memories of a house smelling far too much of urine, and many, many ads stretching the truth about everything) months ago. Last weekend I went to look at an apartment which was the last depressing nail in my solo buying coffin. It became seriously apparent what I want is not possible with the budget I have. Coming home, I surfed domain.com and found a fabulous warehouse shell in Abbotsford. I was daydreaming about how great it would be to be able to buy it, and build from scratch, and I came up with an insane scheme involving my brother buying into a property with me.

Amazingly, he loved the idea. Sadly, the shell was already sold by the time I spoke to the real estate agent. Ditto another property in the same street, which I loved because it had a home theatre. Shallow - me?

I’ve found us another place, which I’m going to look at tomorrow evening. It looks like the best of the bunch so far, since it has two separate living areas, is super close to work (a little further from Miss M’s school than I wanted, but that’s unavoidable), and huge. Auction is 9th June. Remaining unattached, it will be interesting to see what happens.

So it’s all work, finding a house … repeat daily. But it’s good.

Today I’m loving: eBay success!