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Sat. February 26, 2005
Let the hunt begin
This week Sarah and I put in motion the new-to-us adventure of home buying. Although we met last Monday with a broker, today was our first day out with a local realtor. The recommendation for this job went to Fred Minniti at Puget Sound Real Estate. There's certainly something to be said about a flesh 'n blood person that grew up in the area that knows it and this business inside and out. Our week prior was spent searching all brands of real estate websites but we truly enjoyed our experience today.
Our goals for a home, up to this point, are pretty well refined. We love where we live now in North Tacoma but know of some other desirable areas around here we might be able to live with/in. We checked out some places in Fircrest, University Place, and in Northeast Tacoma over on Brown's Point. We didn't really connect with anything today but were able to get more of a beat on things. The place in Northeast, for example, was nice, had enough room for what we'd use it for, and even had a decent yard. The problem was the area. The neighborhood seemed to quiet and steril with no sidewalks or sense that anyone really even cared. None of the surroundings were run down but there seemed to be a mentality here and even over in Fircrest and University Place that "we live here because we do." It felt to me like these were places that middle class people lived lives on the boundary between family and work and didn't really sink much passion into either. Maybe I'm reading way too much into this but the bottom line is it'll be harder to accept spending nearly a quarter million dollars on a home when this sort of thing lingers on my mind.
I don't get this feeling on the North End where we live now. Sure there are some sketchy neighborhoods but generally there is more of a sense of community and history especially since there are actually restaurants, theaters and a real, live city nearby. I think greater suburbia isn't going to be a place I want to live. But for now, the hunt goes on...
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