Mom-in-law to the rescue

I’m so relieved, Monica’s coming out to help me look for rentals. I thought I was done finding properties, but suddenly I find myself only 1/3 of the way done, with only 2 weeks left!

And it’s always a good idea to have a second person involved when making any major purchase decision. John doesn’t have time to look at rentals because he works a lot of overtime (for example, he’s at work right now, on Sunday.) He didn’t even see the Academy Ridge house until after we were under contract. He was able to show up for part of the inspections one morning. Luckily he liked the house, right?

John was more involved in the one in Placitas that we tried to buy, but now we’re not buying that one. So I’ve got my work cut out for me these next couple of weeks.

There’s a reason the House Hunters show always has two people in addition to the agent looking at the houses. In addition to making more interesting TV (I know those shows are staged), it is actually easier to make a decision with someone else involved. And it’s not the agent’s responsibility to help you make a personal decision. They can point out objective flaws or advantages to different houses, but they don’t want to have an opinion on your final decision.

I actually have really good rapport with the agent who helped me find the Academy Ridge house. That partly made up for the fact that I was looking at houses by myself. But she’s going on vacation for 2 weeks, and I need to be done in two weeks.  She has a back-up agent, but that’s essentially like getting a new agent.

I’m not sure yet who I’m going to use for an agent, but I was definitely feeling on my own with this. So I’m very happy to have a house hunting partner, starting on Wednesday! Yay mom!