"How do you keep finding these ghetto places?" My friend queried, after I mentioned that the water was turned off in our apartment (again) because there's only one primary water shut-off in the building.
Something in that comment shook me. Kansas City house definitely tarnished our reputation, but we realized we liked it. It kept us humble, it kept life real. We knew what the really important things in life were, and stopped bitching about the small stuff that other people seem to think Ruin Their Lives. But certainly, I don't want the reputation of being ghetto.
So we called a realtor, a friend of a friend up here and we started looking at houses in the Supreme Apple Valley suburb. Dan and I had convulsions. We promised we'd keep an open mind, but it went something like this. "Beige....big yards for mowing....uniform grass.....giant swing set...head explode!" Our Realtor wanted to show us what we could get for the cost in the suburbs and we wanted to be sure that we knew that we saw "everything" there is to offer in all parts of the metro. She took us to a little enclave in the suburbs that I liked, though. Brand new construction, which we thought we'd never imagine ourselves in, but it's a little community built on smaller lots, like the city, and it has a lovely 4 acre lake with a big set of trails all around it. It has an association, and the houses inside of it actually had some character. And the kitchen was huge. It was pretty affordable, which in Minnesota terms means that it was under 300K.
But next weekend we're going to look at houses in the real city, near the good side of Nokomis and Calhoun and other random parts of the city that we don't know about yet.
House requirements:
Tons of cabinet space in the kitchen
1 car garage or better
3 bedrooms
2 bathrooms
minimal repairs needed???
Well-insulated
Near light rail/bus
close to interstate 35/w or 35/E
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