A friend of mine, who is looking at houses in Tucson, sent me a link to an adorable – and affordable – little house.
It was undeniably cute, with nice high ceilings.
Clearly some thought and creativity went into the remodel.
And it had a pool!
By the time my friend told me about it, it had been on the market for 4 days and was already under contract.
Soon after, we took the plunge and tried to make an offer on this cute little one, but even though it had only been on the market one day, they were overwhelmed with a huge number of offers and wouldn’t take anymore.
We liked the round fireplace, which they call a “beehive” fireplace in Arizona. We call them “kiva” fireplaces in New Mexico.
A pool and a very handy covered gazebo.
But that one was the house that got away. We are now trying for this one:
It’s in central Tucson near a branch of the bike trail we like. It’s on a corner, with an alley and a large property behind it, so it really only has one close neighbor. It’s old and the kitchen is going to take some work.
At first glance, the kitchen looks ok. Never mind a little bit of broken tile here and there. But wait…where’s the refrigerator? Is it supposed to be there where that open shelving is? That doesn’t even look big enough for a refrigerator! And it turns out, there’s no outlet back there. Oh and yeah, that’s the back of the stove peeking over the counter. Not a good look!
We would just have to put the refrigerator awkwardly on this wall, blocking cabinets, until we got around to doing a remodel. You can also see broken and missing tile in this photo.
It has some mudbrick walls and a few wood ceilings, which we like, although it’s not in style anymore. Most of the ceilings are painted, but still the wood adds character we think. It also has a kiva (beehive) fireplace.
This was probably once an exterior space (we would not be putting a couch across the doorway).
The backyard is sad-and-sorry looking, but it has good potential. Lol, when people find themselves using the word “potential” in reference to buying a house, they should drop everything and run. Backyard potential is much less intimidating to me than kitchen potential.
The shed-like addition with the two identical red-rimmed doors bugs me. But there’s potential there – an entire functioning bathroom lurks behind one of those doors! I just need to figure out how to make the space more practical – and not so shed-like.
Yes, we appear to be considering doing everything I’d advise against – don’t buy in a hot market, don’t buy a house that clearly needs work…apparently we don’t learn!
I am continuing to worry about the fires. Not only is the smoke affecting Laura and my friends in the Bay Area, it’s been getting worse in Boise too, where Darren is. The smoke is even affecting John and I, all the way out here in the desert. We both have sore throats; I’ve been having red eyes and migraines. I can only imagine how bad it is closer to the fires.
I’m frustrated that I have an evaporative cooler rather than refrigerated air conditioning. New Mexico residents are being advised to turn off their evaporative coolers at night, but it’s hot! No one would sleep. Evaporative coolers, which are very common in New Mexico, work by blowing outside air over water and then into the house, continuously, with the windows cracked open. So we can’t shut our windows against the smoke. We had planned to upgrade this spring, but with cancer, covid, etc., it never happened.
Here are the air quality reports from last night and again this morning:
Santa Clara – where Laura lives
Livermore – where my friends are
Boise – where Darren lives
Albuquerque – we are apparently fine (moderate air quality), but the smoke is still irritating my eyes and throat. Imagine what everyone in the worse areas must be going through!
Last night:
Am I the only one, or does today’s smoke pattern look like the Native American bear symbol?
The plan was to go camping in California this coming week for my birthday (after a brief but necessary stop in Tucson, more about that later). Following the camping trip, we were going to spend some time in the eastern edge of the California Bay Area. John can work there, because his company has a branch there, and it’s fairly close to Laura and good friends of mine.
We’ve rented a cute little Airbnb in Livermore. It’s a stand-alone guesthouse so we feel fairly safe from COVID risk (stand-alone and thus having its own airflow). It also has a covered outdoor seating space for visiting Bay Area friends and relatives.
But look at the smoke in California!
The smoke covers the entire western US (except Seattle), including the coastline, from Mexico to Canada and all the way to the Great Lakes.
We are all having migraines, Laura, Darren, and I, but Laura is closest to an active fire and has it worst. The air quality numbers where she is near San Jose are abysmal. Because she lives right next to one of the larger fires, the SCU Lightning Complex, the smoke is hanging low in the air. For us, the smoke is higher in the air and not impacting our breathing as much.
The red outline is the The SCU Lightning Complex fire boundaries as of Sunday morning. John and I plan to stay in Livermore, just north of the fire, and Laura lives near San Jose, just west of the fire.
I’m thinking we may need to reconsider our plans to go camping this coming week, but darned if I’m going to miss my trip to the Bay Area the following week! I haven’t seen Laura since Christmas! It seems like a lifetime ago – before COVID, before cancer, before the word “apocalypse” started seeming relevant to real life.
John and I are talking about going up to the far northern edge of the California coast, near the Oregon border to go camping.
But that is a heck of a long way from Albuquerque (especially via Tucson). And with just a slight shift in wind, that area could be inundated with smoke too (see where it says Rogue River and Siskiyou and Six Rivers, nearish to the ocean on the edge of the smoke lines).
Not to mention two or three days of smoke-filled driving from Albuquerque (via Tucson). It’s starting to sound less like a vacation and more of a miserable idea.
Our vacation plans are up in the air – and it’s smoky up there. Plan B anyone?
I advertised our townhome in Albuquerque for rent on Zillow at around 10:30 this morning. I already had one person ready to sign the lease, a neighbor who had seen my tenants moving out and contacted me. But I thought I’d list the house anyway, in case the neighbor fell through.
Within minutes the applications started pouring in – the first one at 10:37 and the voicemails started at 10:39. They’re sending me their credit scores and everything, trying to make a good case, and some of them don’t even want to wait to look at the house, they’re ready to sign the lease now.
And I just started crying, because I feel bad for everyone who is struggling to find a house right now. Not to mention the thousands who are currently losing their homes due to no fault of their own.
I don’t understand why there’s not nearly enough houses for rent or for sale. I guess my friends in the Bay Area are used to this, but Albuquerque and Tucson?
All the applications are good, credit scores are excellent, incomes are impressive, I could rent this house many times over. I feel bad having to say no to all but one applicant. The house has only been listing for 20 minutes and I’ve already got more applications than I even want to look at.
I took the ad down after half an hour. Why aren’t there enough houses?
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On a related topic, a good friend of mine in California has been having her power turned off at regular intervals, for many hours at a time, by the power company. Apparently the power grid is maxing out in the extreme heat. Everyone is staying home, running the air conditioning, and we’re having a record heat wave. There’s simply not enough power.
My friend is trying to save her refrigerated and frozen foods, but has had to throw out some items. And here I always thought of California as being so advanced. Previously I associated a lack of consistent infrastructure to be something we’d encounter on a trip to Mexico, not something that would become an issue in an expensive suburb of the California Bay Area.
And last year they were cutting power in California during windstorms, out of concern that the power lines would start fires in the wind.
These past few years, and particularly this year, have been very humbling for our country. No longer can we claim to be far more advanced than everyone else.
I would love to have solar panels and be off-grid. We actually bought a roof full of solar panels for our house a few years ago, but then we sold that house. Now I’m afraid to buy them for this house because we still are not settled down. We can’t afford to buy solar panels each time we move, especially if we keep moving every year or two! And we’ve never gotten lucky enough to buy a house that already had solar panels. I wish all houses did! THAT would be progress.
Meanwhile, Laura encountered these robots in the streets of downtown Mountain View. Talk about uneven progress. We can’t keep our grid functioning, and we did one of the worst jobs of dealing with covid in the world, but we have robots bringing us lunch. At least for those in downtown Mountain View.
Here’s the video she took, it’s short and cute:
Laura says, “There were two parked in front of a restaurant. A woman came out of the restaurant, opened the top of one of them, placed a bag of takeout inside, shut it, and walked back into the restaurant. That robot then left the restaurant and drove down the sidewalk, which is what I got on camera. It turned at the corner and I lost sight of it.”
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you! If you live in Silicon Valley.
You’re all like, “Kristina, first you put out a survey asking where we’d visit you if you lived there, then you try to pretend you’re considering more conventional bucket list items like an overseas trip or a health retreat in the middle of covid. Who are you kidding? We know that all you really like to do is collect houses and puppies.”
For those of you who guessed I was adopting that adorable little pit mix (who, by the way, was genuinely up for adoption right here in Albuquerque), well, you certainly have precedent for your guess. I have been known to adopt puppies!
In fact, here’s some more puppy pictures, just for fun! OMG, this one is only a mile away from me!
Huskies, Chihuahuas, and adorable mixes:
What is holding me back is my uncertainty about my future. I don’t want John to have to deal with two aging dogs, a new puppy, and a sick wife if my cancer comes back. That’s too much. Of course I would like a new puppy – maybe that can be my celebratory gift to myself when I pass my 7-year mark (after which, it’s much less likely that the cancer would come back).
Now you’re all going, “Kristina, you are not going to wait 7 years before you get another dog. We know you better than that.” Ok, you’re right. Probably not. But maybe I should at least wait a couple of years.
Meanwhile, I am super excited to have found a local friend to help me with my current two dogs, Kai and Rosie! When I got diagnosed with cancer in January, we drove the dogs down to Houston and my in-laws generously cared for them while we were in Boston getting my surgery done. This time, if I need more medical treatment, I’ll have local care for them. That’s a big relief.
My friend, Sandy, is also going to care for Kai and Rosie while we do a little bit of traveling to visit Laura. Sandy has a teenage daughter – and talk about teen puppy love! It’s a complete puppy love fest over there. I’m not sure my dogs are even going to want to live with me at all anymore! They’re not going to want to come home!
Meanwhile I’ve been stewing about wanting to spend this winter somewhere warmer. I had become obsessed with vacation rental listings. I looked in Tucson and Palm Springs and Phoenix and anywhere warm, but all the rentals were so ridiculously expensive. Maybe affordable for a 4-day trip, but I wanted to spend all winter somewhere warmer – not just a week or two! It didn’t help that I also wanted to have a pool, and to be able to bring the dogs, and have enough room for visitors. My wishlist far exceeded the amount of rent I was willing to pay.
Meanwhile, on a somewhat unrelated front, as many of you know – for a couple of years John and I have been trying to figure out where we want to retire. Our top two criteria are: near the kids, and warm in the winter. Slight problem – it’s not warm in the winter near the kids!
After we got two of our rentals sold this spring, I hired three different real estate agents. One for Albuquerque (because…Albuquerque), one for Tucson (warm in the winter) and one for Sacramento (nearish to the kids).
Ever notice how, when there’s not a perfect solution, your brain just goes round and round? At least mine does!
So here I was, looking both for somewhere to spend this winter, as well as looking for a retirement home, and those two searches started overlapping a bit. Pretty soon I was looking at vacation rentals and/or long-term rentals and/or houses to buy, in various cities in California and the southwest…
You know in the comics when people’s eyes have spirals in them? Yeah, that was me, spiral eyes. It was so confusing! And impossible, because on top of everything the housing market has gone nuts. I hope none of you are trying to rent or buy right now. I don’t recommend it!
In Albuquerque, there is almost nothing available to buy or to rent. We have tenants moving to Florida, and already people are calling me asking to rent the house. I’m not even advertising it – they just saw the POD moving container in my tenant’s driveway and realized they were moving. Oh! Oh! A house is coming available! They got my contact info from my tenants and have been pestering me ever since. I could rent or sell that house in an instant, word-of-mouth only, without even listing it.
Tucson is equally crazy, with multiple offers on the first day of listing, bidding wars with offers going thousands of dollars over list price…it’s cutthroat out there.
In case you’re not addicted to Zillow like I am, that’s an utterly ridiculous number of views and saves for just 3 days. That’s an order of magnitude too high. I don’t know why everyone’s trying to rent or buy a house right now! I would think everyone would be worried about the future of the economy “in these uncertain times”. But I guess not!
Some people may be wanting out of their apartments (these covid times are especially miserable in apartments – shared air flow, no backyards, etc.). There may also be people in the northern part of our country terrified at the prospect of being trapped in their home all winter, unwilling to hang around outside in the freezing cold but unable to go to indoor public spaces due to covid, deciding to wait out this winter in a warmer climate. Also there’s a fair number of people who are now suddenly able to work from home, who are leaving the expensive cities like San Francisco and going to warmer, cheaper places. Apparently it is actually possible to rent an apartment in San Francisco, for the first time in forever.
It’s hard to predict the future. I keep thinking that housing prices are going to drop over the next few years because our economy is struggling. I’m worried that the smart thing would be to wait and buy later. So why are John and I looking into buying now? For us there’s that bucket list issue, the concern that maybe I only have a couple years to live if the cancer comes back. We’re no longer inclined to put anything off!
Therefore…drumroll…the pop quiz answer is…the first thing we’re going to do on that bucket list is try to buy a house in a warmer location. Winter is coming!
I do still have my eye on Sacramento, which is located between the kids, but I’m just not sure if that would be close enough to either of them to make it worthwhile. It’s not actually possible to “buy a house near the kids” because the kids don’t live near each other! They are not even in the same state. So for now, we’re planning to drive out in our van to see them – not as often as we could if we lived closer, but hopefully more often than we’ve managed in the past.
15 years ago I came to Albuquerque from California in search of cheap sunshine. We are now looking at Tucson in search of warm winters and a cheap swimming pool.
I had pepper plants. They even had peppers on them! But I don’t have pepper plants anymore.
Here’s the culprit.
Where did he come from? How did he get here? How did he know I had pepper plants? Do all gardens come with one of these bad boys just in case the gardener decides to plant peppers?
We actually ordered it MONTHS ago, but you know how everything is disrupted nowadays. It was supposed to arrive in 2-4 weeks. After 8 weeks I thought we should just cancel the order because not much summer was left, but John wanted to wait a little bit longer in case it showed up.
When I finally gave up and went to cancel the order, the company (in China) appeared to no longer exist! At that point we assumed we were not getting a pool. I was just about to file a complaint with Paypal, (which is how we paid for it) to see if we could get our money back, when out of the blue, it showed up!
Turns out it’s a smaller version than we had paid for, and the package did not include the cover and the filter we had paid for. So I’m still thinking I should contact Paypal. But I’m very grateful to have the pool.
Obviously it’s too small for real swimming, but I can do my post-surgery exercises (I never got physical therapy so I’m just making up my own post-surgery exercises). I also just float around. It definitely seems to help me feel better. It gives me some core exercise without being too difficult. It’s a gentler type of exercise than the floor exercises I have recently been trying to do.
We knew the water would be very cold at first, so in addition to water from the garden hose, John cleverly thought to pump the water from the hot tub into the pool.
Here’s John cleaning out the hot tub. We’re going to leave it empty for a couple of months and then get it filled back up for winter.
John’s like, come on in, the water is fine. And it was!
Happy me, in the pool!
The first few days we put a tarp on it, then we were able to buy a solar cover (it was supposed to come with one, but didn’t). We get a lot of wind which blows leaves and dirt in, and we don’t have a filter, so we need to keep it covered. All the reasonably priced filters are currently backordered, so we’re just going to wait and buy a filter next year, because we’ll be taking the pool down soon.
The solar cover is basically just a really big section of bubble wrap. It works too! The top few inches of water get quite hot. It also stays on in the wind (so far).
We’ve had the pool for a few days and I’ve used it every single day so far! Often 2-3 times per day, only getting out when the thunder starts in the afternoon.
Oh, hey, speaking of wind and thunder (it’s monsoon season in Albuquerque), my friend just sent me this:
Scenario: Kristina emerges from a few months of chemo-fog and has a freak-out about the high mortality rate for her type of cancer (40% chance of it returning, 35% mortality in the next 5 years.) Kristina then starts obsessing about bucket list items. Which bucket list item do you think Kristina chose?
Booked a trip to Costa Rica
Enrolled in a holistic wellness retreat in California
Adopted a puppy
Bought a house
If you’re looking for the 5th option, “all of the above”, you could someday be right! I’m not ruling out any of those things. But for starters…what do you think?
Our dogs are getting too old to easily bound up the steps into the camper van, so John bought a step stool for them. He didn’t realize we were going to have to teach Kai to use it.
Awww, poor guy. I’m not going to bore you with all the videos, but Kai did that over and over. So John decided to use the van door to block Kai’s usual route, pushing him over to the step stool. Human Engineering (or dog engineering) at it’s finest.
Yay, it worked, John’s brilliant!
Or, er, John may be smart, but obviously Kai isn’t. He didn’t learn from his success and still can’t figure out how to get into the van. Here John is luring him with a kibble. Normally Kai would do anything for a bit of food.
He did it! But it seemed accidental. Did he learn anything? No. In this video he gives up and tries to go around to the back of the van. At least he’s starting to think outside the box, but unfortunately he can’t get up the back steps either.
Kai can do it if he eventually accidentally ends up with his front paws on the stool.
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