As of right now, our journey to bankruptcy has been halted due to some friends challenging us regarding the spiritual and moral implications involved (yep, you read that right). Saving that post for another day.
However...our two bedroom/two bath condo went up on the market this past Friday as a short sale. Starting price is $83,000. We paid $145,000, back in 2006, buying it from our family estate as it used to belong to my Nana, until she passed away. We were 22 when we bought it. Buying a home that young is like asking a six-year old to babysit...it might last for a little bit, but all in all, naivete will get the best of 'em. (Okay, maybe that was a bit drastic of a comparison. Maybe some people are mature enough at that age, but we were not ready and should have waited). Here are some pics of what it looked like when we lived there...
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| Mercy's room |
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| Our room, completely IKEA |
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| I don't miss the glass coffee table. |
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| I do miss these colored walls. |
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| Thumbs up for the condo! |
So many firsts there. We brought Mercy home from the hospital there. We celebrated our one-year anniversary there. We also watched the Bears vs. Colts Superbowl there. We were there until Mercy was about 15 months old, and then rented it out to this sweet single lady who took care of the place. We had her move out when we couldn't afford the mortgage any longer and were being threatened with foreclosure.
Now it is just an empty shell of a condo, absent of life but for spiders. Poetic, really.
I guess our dream was to have the place paid off and be able to rent it out at a low price to people who were needy, but right now, that is not going to happen.
We are renting our 4 bed/2 bath house right now, and it looks like we will be renters for a while, and we are okay with that.
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