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Today is Boomtime, day 2 in the season of Chaos, 3270.

Lots of ruminating inspired by music today, the most recent inspired by my commute home. I've had Gillian Welch's "Time (The Revelator)"on near-constant repeat in my CD player the last few days; on my way home this evening I was belting out "I Dream a Highway" (as much as such a song can be "belted out", that is) along with Gillian and for some reason my brain observed that I never sing where anyone else might possibly hear me. I enjoy singing and do it fairly often, but never, ever, ever if I think I'm not alone. I was singing to myself when I got home night before last, but I stopped the second I walked through the door since I knew C. was there.

( navelgazing )

Rant on!

I just got the price list of "resident only" pricing (where they're supposedly cutting us a break on the price if we buy our apartment); any small, fleeting desire I might've had to buy this place and avoid the headache of moving and coming up with another $1800 in security deposits is now long gone. Our garage is apparently worth $20,000. The base price on our unit without a garage is $264,990, the price for the unit with a garage (the one we have) is $284,990. Plus $190 a month in condo fees for a 2-bedroom unit, which includes $12 a month for having a garage. Why the fsck should I pay an amenity fee for my freakin' single car garage? It's not like my car is going to use the pool or that you'd have to shovel snow that much more because I'm parked in a garage and not the parking lot. If this is the price they're giving residents, how badly are people who don't already live here going to get boned? I've lived here since 1999, and I can tell you for a fact that this shoddy construction is not worth nearly that much; I can buy a single family house in the surrounding neighborhood for somewhere in the $300K range, why would I spend that much on a place that was built by contractors who couldn't even be bothered to install outlets and wiring correctly and has little ventilation, no storage space and no parking for visitors? electriccat, guess how much they want for the three bedroom unit we lived in? $365,000. I realize that I live in Fairfax County, where home prices are charitably described as "on the high side" for the area, but still... Maybe if I wasn't completely unimpressed by the quality of this place I wouldn't have quite the same reaction.