Housing update

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Update on the house hunt...

We found too GOOD candidates (now we even have a choice!!).

3 bd townhouse with great layout and lots of living space for 950.00 a month (plus utils) groundswork and snowremoval is covered. Attached garage. 20 mins from Tim's work and close (5 mins or less) to easy grocery shopping etc.

or

2 bed HOUSE. Full basement but it's cold down there - less living space than the townhouse but we'd have our own beautiful back yard, deck, and even a firepit - a place to have friends over and hang out!!
10 mins from Tim's work, 15 mins from major grocery chain, hospital etc. 850.00 plus utils.


We're checking on Utils to see if there is any major diff between the two (like on average does one cost more to heat/cool etc).

Both places have access to highspeed internet so I can continue to work from home (MAJOR bonus - we wouldn't take a place if it didn't have access to highspeed internet).

I really like the idea of the house - BUT there isn't a great place for me to set up bead stuff or fly tying area for Tim. There is room to put a desk in the living room and one in the bedroom - so we'd have our computer space covered. Chances are we'd have to get a wireless router though (not a huge deal).

We could do some set up in the basement BUT it's cold down there - not really damp (even with the major rains we just had) - but still cold. It would be even colder in winter. There are heating ducts down there but in the summer time youwouldn't want the heat on (upstairs you'd want the ac on in the summer!). It's also cheaper than the townhouse but we'd have to do our own grasscutting (there is a lawnmower for the house) and snow removal in the winter - driveway isn't that long. No garage with the house though - so Tim would have to truck the icehouse up and down the basement stairs - a pain but definitely do-able.

Soooo - tough choice. Wow how did we go from abysmal choices to 2 really good ones?? LOL

What do you guys think????