I’m in my pajamas and have dishes to wash, but I’ve gotten some emails asking questions about the house, so rather than wash dishes or go lay in bed and stare languidly at the ceiling while reveling in the warmth of Leila-gifted sheets, I’ll tell you the latest with our house. If real estate stuff bores you, maybe you want to print this post out and take it to bed with you: easy snoozes ahead!

• The inspection on Sunday revealed about $5k worth of work that needs to be done on the house right away (new furnace, some electrical stuff, etc). We tried to negotiate $4k from of the sellers, but they only agreed to $2k. Realistically, they know how hot the market is and that the house is a deal and they’re playing hardball. And, realistically, we’re still getting a great deal. This house easily could have sold for $10k more than it did.

• I figured out why the house feels like nobody lives there: I knew that it was owned by two people with a Japanese last name, and I assumed it was a couple. In actuality, it’s two brothers living there. Not to get into gender stereotypes, but women tend to give houses that “lived in” feeling more than two bachelor brothers would, so it explains the bland furniture, total lack of art, and the sense that no one ever eats there.

• Our loan stuff went through. We locked our mortgage in at exactly 6%, which is pretty good. Is it still scary as hell to realize that over the course of a 30 year loan we’d pay $450,000 for a $250,000 house? Yes. Is money going to be tight for the first year while we make improvements and get used to a mortgage? Yes. Is that ok? Erm, yes. I think. No: yes. It’s ok. I swear!

• Names being considered for the house include “Tijuana” (as in, “Hey friend who lives in Greenwood/Haller Lake/Wallingford/etc, do you feel like making the trek to Tijuana tonight?”) or “Anothaship” (in 1995 I lived in a house nicknamed “The Mothaship”; in 1996 we moved to a house named “The Othaship”).

• Yes, we’re thinking about colors to paint the walls but we’re not sure when we’ll have the cashish to buy paints, so I’m hesitant to get too excited about the mint green living room, red bedroom, or pale orange hallway.