Ahhhhhh
Did my taxes today, with the able assistance of TurboTax Online, which has basically hooked me for life. This was an ugly complicated tax year, what with the move and the new job and the house sale and the business taxes and the everything else. I was done in about three hours. That’s impressive. Would have taken me three days on paper.
I had to hop over to my ex-mortgage company’s website because I couldn’t find my interest statement. (My fault. I know they sent it to me; I remember seeing it.) “Paid in full,” announced the account page as soon as I logged in.
Paid. In. Full. If that hasn’t got the nicest ring to it.
Housing prices in this area continue to bear zero resemblance to reason. Walking up from campus to meet David for his birthday dinner, I snagged flyers from two townhouses on the market less than a block apart. $434K on one, $660K on the other, which has an extra bedroom and a garage but is otherwise quite similar. Are a bedroom and garage worth nearly two hundred thousand dollars? I sure as heck don’t think so.
Even better, there’s another one a few doors down from the $434K one, identical square footage and beds/baths… for $549K. Been on the market a couple-three months, that one has. Can’t imagine why it hasn’t sold.
Bah. Glad to be renting, meeting my rent without difficulty, out of debt, and staying way the heck away from this crazy nutjob housing market.