@ fkusumot.....I was responding to Supernova 82 talking about having a profile blog where he could say whatever he wanted. A while back ioi had asked us if this was something that we would want. The general consensus was that it was unnecessary. But I was just saying that if it were to happen then it wouldn't be an un-monitored system. Blogs would be modded just like everything else...though I'm sure you could get away with a lot more than a general post.
Ok....so looking at houses sucked. The girlfriend's really excited and can't sleep. She's fallen in love with two houses...both of which are four bedrooms and would require us to take on three roommates. If that isn't enough of a problem...both she and her friend who is going to move with us have no rental history. I'm not sure how that will fly with the management companies. Couple that with the fact that we are trying to move with 3 cats and an aviary of finches...plus her friend's dog and we are quite the unrealistic candidates for finding the perfect rental.
Maybe with the market collapsing all around us they'll have no choice but to lower all the prices and rent to anyone with a paycheck. You see...I have no investments or securities or 401k to worry about losing...and I'm basically making minimum wage at the moment. It can't get much worse for me. All that can happen is that houses actually become affordable for me again.
Burn, baby, burn.
Edit...oh....and Universal Healthcare FTW. I saw a jar at a convenient store for a seven year old girl who needed surgery because she had encephalitis. They needed help paying her medical bills. Sad.
