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Provo • Running back Mike Alisa knew something was wrong with the arm he fractured last September in BYU's 47-0 win over Hawaii, but it took a high-five from a teammate to persuade the senior that he needed to have it checked out again.
Yes, a high-five.
Now he's on the sidelines again with preseason camp in full swing, just as he was the last eight games of 2012. Alisa's chances of regaining his position from super sophomore Jamaal Williams as BYU's featured back are slipping away with each passing day.
"To me, it is tough not being in there, because Jamaal Williams is a stud," Alisa said. "Guys like Adam Hine and Paul Lasike are also coming in. Those guys are all very capable of being great running backs for Brigham Young, and not being in there does make things complicated for me."
Alisa said his arm was bothering him during weightlifting sessions most of the summer.
"And when it actually happened, I high-fived somebody and it just ached like crazy," he said. "Got the X-ray, and the next day I was in surgery. … Yeah, no more high-fives."
And no carries for a couple more weeks, at least. Coach Bronco Mendenhall said Saturday that Alisa, who is wearing a non-contact cast, is still expected to be able to play in the opener at Virginia on Aug. 31.
"I am going to be optimistic and say I am 85 percent [recovered]," Alisa said. "Let's go with that."
After the X-rays showed one of the two bones was not healing properly, doctors went in and removed the old plate on Alisa's ulna.
"The inside bone was good to go, but the outside bone just needed some reinforcement," he said.
Alisa said he spent a lot of the first few days of practice coaching up the younger running backs, including returned missionary Algernon Brown and sophomore Nate Carter, who has made several nice plays, along with Williams.
Corner update
Another player who came out of spring camp listed as a starter on the depth chart, senior boundary corner Mike Hague, also needed offseason surgery and will miss a good chunk of camp, if not all.
Mendenhall said Hague had surgery on the iliotibial band (IT band) next to his knee, but added, "He could be ready for Game 1. If not, Game 2."
True freshman Dallin Leavitt of Portland, Ore., has been getting most of the reps with the first-teamers at the boundary corner spot, but juco transfer Robertson Daniel and Skye PoVey, who also plays some safety, are still in the mix.
Jacob Hannemann would also likely be a contender for the spot, but he signed with the Chicago Cubs for nearly a $1 million and is playing minor-league ball in Boise, Idaho.
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What we learned • The Cougars held their third practice of preseason camp on Tuesday, donning shoulder pads for the first time, but the session was not open to the media and there were no interviews afterward.
Up next • Wednesday's practice will be held in the afternoon and the media will be allowed to view the last 30 or so minutes, with interviews afterward.

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I have a wider range as a human being than as a writer. (With some writers, it's the opposite.) Only a fraction of me is available to be turned into art.
Words have their own firmness. The word on the page may not reveal (may conceal) the flabbiness of the mind that conceived it. > All thoughts are upgrades — get more clarity, definition, authority, by being in print — that is, detached from the person who thinks them.
A potential fraud — at least potential — in all writing.
Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won't come through.
If only I could feel about sex as I do about writing! That I'm the vehicle, the medium, the instrument of some force beyond myself.
Science fiction —
Popular mythology for contemporary negative imagination about the impersonal
Greatest subject: self seeking to transcend itself (Middlemarch, War and Peace)
Looking for self-transcendence (or metamorphosis) — the cloud of unknowing that allows perfect expressiveness (a secular myth for this)
(undated loose sheets, 1965)
Kafka the last story-teller in 'serious' literature. Nobody has known where to go from there (except imitate him)
(undated loose sheets, 1965)
John Dewey — 'The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.'
I think I am ready to learn how to write. Think with words, not with ideas.
'Writing is only a substitute [sic] for living.' — Florence Nightingale
French, unlike English: a language that tends to break when you bend it.
A writer, like an athlete, must 'train' every day. What did I do today to keep in 'form'?
In 'life,' I don't want to be reduced to my work. In 'work,' I don't want to be reduced to my life.
My work is too austere
My life is a brutal anecdote
The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart
The story must strike a nerve — in me. My heart should start pounding when I hear the first line in my head. I start trembling at the risk.
I'm now writing out of rage — and I feel a kind of Nietzschean elation. It's tonic. I roar with laughter. I want to denounce everybody, tell everybody off. I go to my typewriter as I might go to my machine gun. But I'm safe. I don't have to face the consequences of 'real' aggressivity. I'm sending out colis piégés ['booby-trapped packages'] to the world.
The solution to a problem — a story that you are unable to finish — is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.
Talking like touching
Writing like punching somebody
To be a great writer:
know everything about adjectives and punctuation (rhythm)
have moral intelligence — which creates true authority in a writer
'Idea' as method of instant transport away from direct experience, carrying a tiny suitcase.
'Idea' as a means of miniaturizing experience, rendering it portable. Someone who regularly has ideas is — by definition — homeless.
Intellectual is a refugee from experience. In Diaspora.
What's wrong with direct experience? Why would one ever want to flee it, by transforming it — into a brick?
Weakness of American poetry — it's anti-intellectual. Great poetry has ideas.
Not only must I summon the courage to be a bad writer — I must dare to be truly unhappy. Desperate. And not save myself, short-circuit the despair.
By refusing to be as unhappy as I truly am, I deprive myself of subjects. I've nothing to write about. Every topic burns.
The function of writing is to explode one's subject — transform it into something else. (Writing is a series of transformations.)
Writing means converting one's liabilities (limitations) into advantages. For example, I don't love what I'm writing. Okay, then — that's also a way to write, a way that can produce interesting results.
'All art aspires to the condition of music' — this utterly nihilistic statement rests at the foundation of every moving camera style in the history of the medium. But it is a cliché, a 19th c[entury] cliché, less an aesthetic than a projection of an exhausted state of mind, less a world view than a world weariness, less a statement of vital forms than an expression of sterile decadence. There is quite another pov [point of view] about what 'all art aspires to' — that was Goethe's, who put the primary art, the most aristocratic one, + the one art that cannot be made by the plebes but only gaped at w[ith] awe, + that art is architecture. Really great directors have this sense of architecture in their work — always expressive of immense line of energy, unstable + vital conduits of force.
(undated, 1977)
One can never be alone enough to write. To see better.
Two kinds of writers. Those who think this life is all there is, and want to describe everything: the fall, the battle, the accouchement, the horse-race. That is, Tolstoy. And those who think this life is a kind of testing-ground (for what we don't know — to see how much pleasure + pain we can bear or what pleasure + pain are?) and want to describe only the essentials. That is, Dostoyevsky. The two alternatives. How can one write like T. after D.? The task is to be as good as D. — as serious spiritually, + then go on from there.
Only thing that counts are ideas. Behind ideas are [moral] principles. Either one is serious or one is not. Must be prepared to make sacrifices. I'm not a liberal.
When there is no censorship the writer has no importance.
So it's not so simple to be against censorship.
Imagination: — having many voices in one's head. The freedom for that.
Language as a found object
Last novelist to be influenced by, knowledgeable about science was [Aldous] Huxley
One reason [there are] no more novels — There are no exciting theories of relation of society to self (soc[iological], historical, philosophical)
Not SO — no one is doing it, that's all
(undated, March 1979)
There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work
(undated, March 1979)
To write one must wear blinkers. I've lost my blinkers.
Don't be afraid to be concise!
A failure of nerve. About writing. (And about my life — but never mind.) I must write myself out of it.
If I am not able to write because I'm afraid of being a bad writer, then I must be a bad writer. At least I'll be writing.
Then something else will happen. It always does.
I must write every day. Anything. Everything. Carry a notebook with me at all times, etc.
I read my bad reviews. I want to go to the bottom of it — this failure of nerve
The writer does not have to write. She must imagine that she must. A great book: no one is addressed, it counts as cultural surplus, it comes from the will.
Ordinary language is an accretion of lies. The language of literature must be, therefore, the language of transgression, a rupture of individual systems, a shattering of psychic oppression. The only function of literature lies in the uncovering of the self in history.
The love of books. My library is an archive of longings.
Making lists of words, to thicken my active vocabulary. To have puny, not just little, hoax, not just trick, mortifying, not just embarrassing, bogus, not just fake.
I could make a story out of puny, hoax, mortifying, bogus. They are a story.
As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh is exquisite in its entirety — I couldn't recommend it more heartily.


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Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle won another term Tuesday, handily defeating Democrat Carol Porter with 55 percent of the vote.
Speaker David Ralston introduced Cagle at a victory party by saying voters believed in the message of cutting taxes and cutting government.
"We won back seats we shouldn't have lost two years ago," Ralston told a crowd that swelled to hear from Cagle and Nathan Deal, who was slated to appear shortly after Cagle took the stage.
Cagle echoed the joy of other candidates in the GOP sweep.
"It is our moment to seize the time to liberate our state," Cagle said. "People are looking for someone who recognizes that government does not create jobs but the private sector does. We have to make our state the best there is to do business in."
Cagle defeated Democrat Jim Martin in 2006 to become the first Republican lieutenant governor in Georgia history.
- April Hunt
November 2nd, 2010
11:35 pm
No, the election of Cagle just signifies that the denser, more progressive parts of metro Atlanta ITP and just OTP haven't grown large enough in population yet to counter the good-'ol-boy politics outside the state and put leaders who will push for rail and other positive infrastructure changes. It's business as usual and Georgia will again not move forward and not compete unless we get people like Cagle out of office. Hopefully the others elected in can undo the damage that was done by electing Cagle.
November 2nd, 2010
11:36 pm
I meant good 'ol boy politics outside the inner metro.
By the way, when metro Atlanta grows large enough, it will dominate state politics. I can't wait for that day. Rural Georgia shouldn't run things.
November 2nd, 2010
11:39 pm
By the way, are you ready to lay down the infrastructure the businesses need to grow? Cutting taxes isn't a policy that brings in the business community. You need to build for growth – more freight rail, commuter rail, light rail. If you want to grow, INVEST. Cutting taxes further just isn't going to do it. We're tired of "let's build roads" politics, we're tired of your rhetoric. You guys have been in power too long. How can you talk about change? You have failed to do it in the past.
November 2nd, 2010
11:42 pm
Whuh time is dinner?
November 2nd, 2010
11:54 pm
Months of AJC shilling for Barnes down the drain. Lots of headlines about a likely runoff when polls indicated a LANDSLIDE for Deal was in the offing. The AJC simply does not care that they don't have a shred of credibility.
November 3rd, 2010
12:03 am
All I want to say about this race is….I can promise you that you have not heard the last of Carol Porter. She will accept this defeat with grace and will continue to fight for education for our future generations. What an awesome person with tremendous character she is! I have faith that she will be back!
November 3rd, 2010
12:04 am
Georgia has decided to remain in the 19th century with the results of these elections. It is a sad day in this state when 2 men from the same city are elected and both are ethically bankrupt.
November 3rd, 2010
1:02 am
The trouble is there was NO ONE worthy of our votes. Deal is a crook and Barnes couldn't govern his way out of a paper bag!
November 3rd, 2010
1:10 am
Yeah. "Both Sides" there snowflake. You just enjoy full republican control for another two years and see where tax cuts get you all.
November 3rd, 2010
5:22 am
i am prowd of my son dan barber for running in race
November 3rd, 2010
6:10 am
Typical d-bag liberal bringing up "infrastructure". **YAWN***
Get a new mantra. I don't even want to touch your ignorant comment on people inside the perimeter being above the "good ol' boys" outside the perimeter, you eugenicist, mouth breathing, arrogant imbecile.
November 3rd, 2010
6:16 am
The citizens of Georgia have sent a very loud voice to Washington that we are tired of the spending & taxing us to death!1 We need jobs, we need a sense of security & with the win last night by Deal & Cagle I think Georgia is on the right track!!! It's time to roll up our sleeves, take the gloves off & get down to business for the state for Georgia!!!
November 3rd, 2010
7:03 am
I can't believe you IDIOTS voted or Amendment 1. Thanks a lot, you backwoods inbreds……keeping Georgia in last place.
November 3rd, 2010
7:11 am
@Melanie, So what was Sonny&Cagle doing for the past years? Oh yeah, they were chasing Gena.
November 3rd, 2010
7:29 am
Seems to be some sweet Libs on here, calling the citizens of GA names. As if they are so brilliant. I suggest Delta is ready when you are. Let me recommend The People's Republic of California. They have reelected Governor Moonbeam, and their state is in much worse shape than GA. You'll love it there. Have a nice trip.
November 3rd, 2010
7:32 am
In other words, INVEST=SPEND. Oh yeah, that seems to have worked reeeaal well.
November 3rd, 2010
7:41 am
what is it 'bout TERM LIMITS don't ya'll understand……..?
Never reelect them again….
Thats is TERM LIMITS
ONLY one term and make them get a real job again IF
one can be found……
November 3rd, 2010
8:59 am
netdragon, there is a reason why the south is leading the nation in Job creation. It is called taxes and the lesser taxes here in the south. However, start spending money to look more like the north and those taxes will increase the business will move elsewhere.
Why don't liberals understand tax cause and affect?
November 3rd, 2010
9:04 am
Let's don't make it an urban vs rural issue. The point is that the current Georgia government has been heavily influenced by financial interests and has not paid enough attention to the interests of the state in general. Carol Porter articulated some of these issues really well. We need more people in politics like her. Term limits alone won't solve our problems. What we need is good information about the performance of our representatives so we can make intelligent decisions. Over the last couple of years, the AJC has done a pretty good job of providing this information.
November 3rd, 2010
9:21 am
Why don't you understand the difference between effect and affect? Go back to grade school.
November 3rd, 2010
9:41 am
Netdragon is a fool. Yeah, I can't wait for metro Atlanta to further dominate anything in this state- Metro Atlanta is a cess pool….corrupt, bankrupt, all-racial, hell-hole. I guess the entire rest of the state of Georgia shouldn't matter. You are an ignorant, arrogant idiot. Here's an idea…….MOVE!!
November 3rd, 2010
10:10 am
Why should the color of ones skin matter? If that person is the best for the job, and the people, of all colors, vote that person in, why are you making a divisive issue out of it. I did not cast my votes based on color, or party. I voted for what I, as an America, felt was best for my corner of the world. I did not look for who was of what race before voting. I think the this article of yours is sad, and out of step with the new Georgia . You should have focused on the fact that so many Georgians got out and voted! , and that so many all said the same thing. I think you are taking issue with the fact that, race was not an issue. Blacks' and Whites' all want the same thing, a better life, for themselves, and their kids. Report on that!
November 3rd, 2010
10:18 am
Net Dragon,
My friend, you have missed the most fundamnetal of all economic foundational rules…..if you keep more money in the hands of constituents (low taxes), they will drive the economy with new enterprises and job creation. Filtering a bunch of wasted gov't funds through bureacratic waste filters is very inefficient, begs for abuse, and doesn't grow an economy. In a nutshell, it's called Reaganomics…..and EVERYBODY benefits.
November 3rd, 2010
10:32 am
Sorry bud, but cutting taxes does create job opportunities. We saw how well the Democrats ideas have worked with their stimulus plan. Hopefully the Republicans will realize the need for small business benefits, as that's where our recovery will come from this time. Small businesses need a break! Infrastructure improvements for what? Atlanta? I've lived in metro Atlanta (born and raised in Atlanta for 29 years, and moved to Cobb 24 years ago) my entire life, and have to tell you that I avoid ITP as much as possible. When Atlanta wants to clean up their crime and all of the bums that have taken over public transportation, then maybe companies would flock here. Ignoring the obvious hasn't worked for decades and will continue not to work. Just open your eyes. It's obvious! Somebody has to be willing to roll up their sleeves and do some dirty work for Atlanta's benefit. Also, maybe it'd be a good idea to look at a map of Georgia. Atlanta is a very small portion of the state, although it might be the most densely populated area. Sorry, majority still rules, and yes Atlanta is not a state, Georgia is.
November 3rd, 2010
11:43 am
WE THE PEOPLE have spoken. Folk like Liberal Jay are crying in their cereal this morning. I love it. Guess what-the work has not started yet. We will be watching all of them by holding them accountable to keep big government spending under control while creating jobs, boosting our fighting men overseas and balancing the budget that folk like Hussein Obama created.
November 3rd, 2010
11:50 am
OK Republicans–get busy. If the Georgia unemployment rate is still 10%+ in two years you are toast. Oh wait, of course you can always blame Georgia's problems on Obama.
November 3rd, 2010
12:04 pm
netdragon- Do you think Cagle is from RURAL Ga? ROTFLMAO! He grew up in Gainesville and I don't know if you have been to Gainesville lately, or gotten out of your little dark hole of bitterness, but Gainesville is just north of Atlanta. Far enough to not feel so much of the crap and close enough to have at least one of everything and still be able to drive back and forth to Atlanta within 45 minutes or so (one way). Also you can enjoy the lake, or you can go to the more scenic areas in the north end of Hall Co. where you can see the mountains, and you Might find Some rural areas still, but not that many. They are all being built up into subdivisions due to the influx of people moving into the Hall Co./Gainesville area, but Gainesville itself, the city of Gainesville isn't rural in the least! That's where Casey Cagle grew up and went to High School, etc. Rural my tush…you need to check what you are whinging about before you start!
November 3rd, 2010
12:35 pm
small business can't provide enough jobs to keep the economy strong. we need to make it unprofitable for these companies who are taking all of our manufacturing jobs to China and other foreign countries. This did not seem important to the politicians when it was low payed textile workers who were losing their jobs but now it is all areas,
November 3rd, 2010
2:59 pm
Here's what one of yours said:
Nathan Deal is going to help throw Barack Anticrist Hussein out of our beautiful country. Why do we allow such shallow, idiotic liberal morons to breed? I say we sterilize you, so you will be the LAST trace of disgusting slime to taint our country. Nathan Deal deserved every bit of what he got. You and Roy Barnes can go jump off a cliff for all I care.
Who's the eugenicist now? Well, I still would be glad to put both of you down like mad dogs.


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Based on a feature in this month's Martha Stewart Living* and an endorsement from my friendly local cheesemonger, I bought myself fancy goat milk caramels today from Big Picture Farm in Vermont. They're "birthday caramels" except that I bought a very large number that will hopefully last beyond my actual birthday.
Coincidentally, about five minutes after clicking the big "buy now" button, I came across this article about how sugar is toxic. We sort of knew that already, right? But this is the final nail in the coffin.
And of course, I read the article and immediately thought:
I love sugar. I seriously do. And I have been eating a very large amount of sugar lately, what with the lack of sleep and being home all day and the insane ravenous hunger that comes with breastfeeding.**
It's not like I don't consume other things that are toxic. I eat bacon, and sausages, and drink alcohol. I am not above a bag of sour cream and onion potato chips. So I'm not about to go on some Paleo bender and cut sugar from my diet entirely. But in absence of real data on how much sugar a person can eat safely, I probably need to cut back.
After I eat my birthday caramels.
* Which I love. I understand that some loath Martha Stewart, but I just adore her in all her whacked-out domesticity-on-steroids glory. It's also worth understanding that Martha Stewart Living is the home equivalent of the "no-makeup look" that involves eight different skin lotions, potions, and powders, plus two eyeshadows, a lipstick, and a three-part eyelash procedure. It is an elaborate charade. I just happen to enjoy reading about it, and, on rare occasion, participating.
** There is a very real possibility that I will have lost the pregnancy weight in the first six weeks of my maternity leave, only to gain a big portion of it back in the latter six weeks as a result of poor eating habits. That would be disappointing.
Did you read the article in the New York Times Magazine this week about sugar? The gist of it is that sugar* is toxic and going to kill you. As much as I wanted to dismiss it as the latest yuppie hoo-ha, the argument was pretty compelling.
Any time I read an article like this, I do a mental calculation of the extent to which it applies to me (also known as justification of my current lifestyle). On the plus side: I don't drink soda or fruit juices, I cook a fair amount which limits processed foods and gives me a pretty good sense of what I'm eating, we don't tend to keep cookies and candies in the house, so I have to make an effort to go get them when I want them. On the minus side: I often do make the effort to go get ice cream or cookies, I am an ardent supporter of the dessert course, I have honey in my tea every morning, I have a weakness for sugary flavored lattes (thought I don't drink them even close to every day), and if, God forbid, Dave and I ever break up, I would consider marrying whoever makes the almond croissant at Standard Baking. This mental calculation was not as successful as I hoped it might be.
A better person with more self-restraint might decide to give up all added sugars. I am not that person.
I did decide to try having my tea unsweetened in the mornings. I have done this in the past and know from experience that I can adjust to this, though it takes a few days. Also in the spirit of not-dying, I didn't sprinkle my yogurt with brown sugar this morning.
The tea was fine, I'll get used to it (by the way, two ways to avoid having super bitter tea: buy slightly higher quality tea— something closer to a whole leaf tea than a pulverized leaf-powder tea— and don't over-steep your tea).
The plain yogurt sans brown sugar was great, but was also topped with a really sweet and ripe mango, so I don't know that this is exactly a prime example of a new more austere lifestyle.
We'll see how it goes.
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Sell our House or Not? We are at an impasse, HELP! Extended explanation inside.
We have a realtor and I know you are not our realtor but we need some objective, outside opinions.
My wife and I bought a charming 1600sf home in our town soon after marriage and we've been in it 7 years. It's a simple bungalow but has a large office space, the three bedrooms we need for our now 4 person family and a huge backyard with trees which is rare in this part of the city. We've updated the paint, trim, and maintained it quite well. It'll need a new roof in the next 2 years and last year we put a new a/c unit into it. We've paid down the house from 124 to 104 in the past 7 years.
I would like to move elsewhere as we are moving out of storage space and I'm afraid we're going to have to do more work on this house before long. Nothing has really shown up other than having to snake the pipes and we'd need insulation but I tend to be a worrier. Plus, having an actual laundry room and not having the washer/dryer in the garage would be fantastic. My wife likes our house and is attached to the area we live in. Unfortunately, to move up 400-800 sf in this area doubles the house prices. With the difference in interest rates, we'd only pay 200-400 more a month, which is stretchy/doable (until the kids are out of daycare in 2 years) but the sticky issue is this:
We found houses last year that we liked (we put our house on the market in the late fall and only managed to get 3 showings) but no one bought our home so we lost the one liked to another buyer. This year, we put it back out and within 3 days have a firm offer with no haggling. With realtor fees and what not we'd still walk away with 20-25K which we're very happy with. However, we haven't signed yet and we're going to lose the buyers if we don't soon. The reason is that my wife is frightened we won't find one she really likes in our price/area range before the close date AND she doesn't think we can manage an intermediate move to an apt both financially and easily considering our toddlers and home office. Also, she flat refuses to go along with the idea as she feels it's too chaotic. She wants to pull out and find one and then take offers/relist/etc.
This was a our first house, so we have no experience in this area. Our realtor says more homes will pop up in our area (Tulsa/Midtown) in the next month and the buyers would give us 8 weeks of closing time. We're not sure if that's true or hopeful thinking because she's obviously out for commission and we've looked at 50 houses and NONE work. Should we jump forward or pull back and sell first? If we wait till next year do we screw ourselves of the good interest rates and the soft market? If we waited the 2 years until our kids are out of daycare (freeing up 1500 a month) would we be in a better position or worse due to IR and market move? Our mortgage right now is roughly 920 a month if we went with a house that ran 225-250, we'd be dealing with 1390-1500. Again doable, just tight. We're just afraid the house we want isn't out there yet and we are still comfortable in this house, minus the storage issues. We're just lost and need any and all opinions.
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You can always offer to rent your house back from the new buyers after you close. People do this all of the time. If you want to give yourself more time, put it in your counteroffer that you would like to rent the house for a month or two after closing. That should give you more than enough time to find an acceptable house.
Also, if you're looking at a family-type home, many people won't put those on the market until the kids are closer to being out of school. You're going to see a lot of houses pop up every week from now through summer.
Congrats on getting such a good offer.
posted by
on April 12, 2012
Take this with a grain of salt as I'm a "make do with what you've got" type of person. Your house sounds like a charming dream come true. If it's primarily a storage issue, why not rent a storage unit for what, $50 a month? If you need/want a laundry room - is there a chance you could add on?
If you really want to sell and buy and you're worried about closing and having to move and find a new place - you could always ask for 8 weeks (or more) to close, or get the house rented back to you for a few months, as Ostara said.
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Your house sounds really great absent 2 problems--storage and laundry. The finish out for both is relatively inexpensive (especially the storage) so why not add on what you need?
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On the one hand: yes, you'll have to put more money into the house soon, and that's normal and okay; you shouldn't worry about maintenance. I went eight years in mine before things started blowing up, and frankly, I was lucky. So assuage your worrisome nature by socking away a little bit of money each month towards those inevitable repairs/maintenance items.
Similarly, the extra money you'd have to pay for a larger house can go to home remodeling work, such as putting the washer/dryer inside your house (I have a stacked unit in my old furnace closet -- I moved the furnace into the attic -- and my house is only 1340sqft.) You can also add wall storage with doors to hold that stuff coming out of storage, or take a deep breath and get away from those items. Plus, keeping your storage facility will be cheaper (most likely) than the cost involved with a new house.
Finally, your new house will need repairs and fixes, and if your current one didn't, you got really lucky -- so a new house isn't a way to escape that issue.
On the other hand: a firm offer without haggling is great to have. If you really want to leave the house and the area, or you really want to rent for a while and sit on that cash, or you found a home you love and can afford, I'd say take it -- but if those things aren't true, I'd say embrace the home you have in the area you love, and just maintain/repair/change it to be the house you want it to be. That's always cheaper for you (provided your desires are reasonable), much like it is always cheaper to fix your car than to buy a new one.
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note: my stacked washer/dryer are front-loading full-size units, not one of those smaller apartment combo units. I recommend sticking to full size with a family of your size.
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Can you add a small extension to your current house so that you can have that laundry room? Extend a little more and get the storage space? It's much cheaper to extend your current house than to sell and buy a new house. Also, if you have extra cash to put towards a mortgage, you'd be better off putting it towards your current mortgage. Paying the mortgage off early will have you a ton of money in interest. Plug the numbers into a mortgage repayment calculator and I think you'll be surprised. I agree with your wife - I think you should stay!
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If it's primarily a storage issue: get rid of some stuff. If it's primarily a "space" issue - toddlers take up a lot of space, I know - then maybe sell. Or add on.
Maintenance is a pain, but unless you're going to move every five years (yuck) eventually you're going to have to do that. So unless you're moving to a maintenance free house in your price range, you're going to be having to do repair work on a house where your budget is already stretched, unless I"m missing something.
But if your wife is putting up road blocks, I think you need to address with her why she doesn't want to move. Does she work? Does she maybe not want to work? Is she secretly scared that being tight on money is going to be very difficult, but she isn't really expressing that clearly to you? Because I can see myself doing that in the same situation. Being house poor is no fun, even if it is for two years.
I mean, generally I would say put the purchase agreement on the house, take the 8 weeks to look; pull out of the agreement if necessary. But it sounds like maybe she just doesn't want to move.
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Would you pay six or seven percent of the value of your current house, plus a couple thousand in seller's closing costs, plus a few thousand more in closing costs on a different house, plus the cost of moving all your stuff, plus $200-$400 a month higher payments, plus higher property taxes and insurance, just to have some extra storage and a laundry that's not in the garage? Because that's what you're really proposing here. Every house needs maintenance; you deal with it by budgeting for it, not by moving.
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Well, if you push your wife into accepting this offer then you are potentially responsible for everything down the line house-related that happens that she doesn't like. If she won't even negotiate on this, then I don't think you're accepting this offer.
Absent a compelling reason, I'd say not to get into a tight monthly payment scenario. If IR is an issue, then can you refi your current house? If you move now, what kind of cushion do you have (I mean chunk in the bank as well as monthly cash flow) for the unexpected? What happens if the new house needs a new roof?
If your finances are such that you can't financially manage an intermediate move to an apartment, then my thoughts would run towards saving some money and reevaluating when the kids are out of daycare.
It sounds like you're trying to talk yourselves into moving up to a bigger house. If you've looked at 50 houses in your price range and in the same general area and not one of them was good enough, then there's a decent chance you're letting the great be the enemy of the good and your wife is right, you guys are unlikely to find what you want in the next 4-8 weeks.
When you factor in the finances, remember the transaction costs - is what you're gaining worth that plus stretching your monthly budget?
All of that said, if the offer is right and you're sure you want to move, then accept the offer and do what you need to do from there - make it work. Ask your wife what help and support she would need to have in order to do the interim move if need be. More houses on the market soon means your house will have more competition - you may find what you want and then get back to the point where you can't sell yours soon enough at a high enough price, and round we go.
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on April 12, 2012
Don't discount the importance of being in an area you like. Do you have good relationships with your neighbors? Are you in good school zones for the kids? Those things do more for your quality of life than convenient laundry, IMO.
You're thinking about new roof, but think about how much that will realistically cost and compare it to just the closing costs on selling - I'd guess it will be pretty close. If you're worried about other repairs down the line, you can be socking away the extra $$ that would have gone to higher mortgage payments on new house.
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on April 12, 2012
I'm currently visiting one of my kids with 2000 sq. ft of space in a great old house, but with few closets or storage. The lack of storage space was giving her that we-need-an-even-bigger house itch. Here's how she scratched that itch between our last visit and this one:
--She read a ton of decluttering/organizing articles and got rid of a lot of stuff. You have very small children now with a lot of equipment they won't need in just a couple years--strollers, playpen, and all that toddler/preschool stuff. Yes, they'll have bikes, sports equipment later, but there's a lot you can do with a garage to fit all that out there.
--She rented a small storage unit for business-related paperwork and inventory, plus Christmas and holiday decorations.
--She found some armoires on Craigslist and creatively redecorated them, turning one into a downstairs coat closet/spillover storage from the kitchen--trays, oversized pots, etc.
--She had a closet organizer redesign two big closets she did have, which doubled the space. I suggest the same for you as well as reading up on how to use your garage effectively.
You could redesign your office and those three bedrooms very easily. Apartment Therapy is a fantastic resource for that. You could organize your garage to use as extra storage. Is it possible to renovate a bathroom and add a stackable washer dryer to it, or even a side by side setup? It might be worthwhile to hire an interior designer for a fee to help you accomplish all this.
My husband and I lived in our 1100 sq. ft. "starter house" for thirty years because it was a great place to raise kids, convenient to our commuter station, walkable to town, etc. We loved it. Yeah, it was tight at times, but our taxes were lower because of the size, we didn't acquire truckloads of stuff, and we made the space work. (For $10,000, we built an excellent office/family room in the basement when the kids got older.) Some of our friends who "moved up" are rattling around in huge houses now that they are empty nesters. We always seemed to have more money for vacations and in our IRAs than people who were living bigger. We were mainly freelancers who never had a huge income, but it didn't matter because our monthly house "nut" was very reasonable. We knew bankers and lawyers who got in trouble with their too-big house with their too-big mortgages when the economy tanked. A smallish-sized house in a great neighborhood is a wonderful thing to own.
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It's still a buyer's market and it's rare to get an offer so quickly, so congrats! And if you have a firm offer, you should probably take it, as who knows when you'll get another.
You have a few options here.
The best one seems to be to offer to rent your house (at close to market rate) from the new owner for a month or two after selling.
Another option might include asking the buyer to push back the closing for a month. Many mortgage companies offer 60 day rate locks. When we bought our house last year, we put a closing date one month after the offer. The sellers said that wasn't enough time for them to find a new house (even though our house had been on the market for 2 1/2 years (!) at the time we made the offer!) and asked that we push the closing date back another month. We were in an apartment that had a breaklease fee that was some percentage of the remaining months of rent or a flat fee, whichever was higher. The extra month pushed us into flat fee territorry, so it was financially advantageous for us to wait on the closing. The mortgage company allowed the longer rate lock and so there was no hit there -- somewhat unfortunately, mortgage rates went down slightly during the intervening time and we were already locked into a slightly higher rate but with rates going the way they are we may consider refinancing soon. It all depends on what situation your buyer is in. Pushing back the closing may be advantageous for you.
A third option might be to find a Residence Inn or similar long-term hotel and a storage unit or PODS for the rest of your stuff for a few months. Yeah, that's going to suck, but it will cover you as far as a place to live while you look for your new home.
By all means, talk to your Realtor! He or she might have other options like a short-term open-ended rental you could live in while you look for your new home, and might suggest some other arrangement I haven't even thought of.
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As others mentioned, you should consider an addition. You will be spending money on the new house anyway (besides the increase in price there are renovations that will most likely need to be done, higher taxes, unexpected expenses, closing costs, etc...). You have a large yard, so you can spare the space, and money-wise it may not be as bad as you think. You can also finance it. Shop around for contractors, come up with a plan that maximizes the space and utility and go for it. The addition will most likely pay for itself if/when you decide to sell anyway.
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I'll chime in with some contrarian advice, given the number of responses above that state 'live with less space'. With little ones underfoot, we didn't realize how 'getting by' with not enough room for storage took a huge toll on our psyche. To me it was worth every penny and bit of effort and frustration to get a larger place, and I didn't fully realize it until we moved in. Now we enjoy the space >every day<>
Congratulations on finding a buyer so quickly. I'm not sure about OK, but in both CA and in MD houses fall out of escrow / contract with the most flimsy of excuses, and if a sale was not meant to go through it won't. (In CA there was a period of time - IIRC it was 17 days or so - where a buyer could back out without any reason stated at all.) In the majority of the cases it is the buyer getting cold feet, so it is incumbent on you both being sure you want to do this.
But it is clear already from what you've done so far - putting your house on the market twice now - that you are very interested in moving to get more living space, and that is worthwhile.
(Assumption: that you've obtained solid estimates from reliable contractors on the time and money it would take to get the additional 400-800sf of living space that you need, which would double the value of the house, and that you've deemed that a non-starter for either the economic reason - that it would be foolish to put so much money into a house that you'll not see that money again - or the hassle factor - that you could not physically survive such disruption.)
Now is only April and there is a lot of inventory that will come on the market through the early summer. Looking at 50 houses is not unusual, you have every right to be picky and diligently looking at every listing as soon as it comes out, and as others have correctly said doing a rent-back is a completely viable option. Many have been in this situation before (selling a house before buying one); we were in the opposite situation (finding a house before selling the existing one), and what we did was to lower the asking price to flush out a buyer. It worked, and it worked well for everyone involved.>
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Buying a new place may very well be the best option for you, but I would not sell your place until you find a house you love. Imagine how you will feel if you sell your house now, and in the next few months are not able to find a house that you love, so you end up settling for something. You will then be angry about the fact that you spent many thousands of dollars and uprooted yourselves only to be living in another house that isn't perfect.
You may be able to find the perfect house next week, or it may take 6 months. For the amount of money you are looking at, I'd say it's better to risk having to sell your house for 5-10 grand less than you are asking now and find the perfect new house, than to sell now and risk not finding a place that you love.
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Your wife seems grounded in reality. Her reasons are pretty solid. Yours sound a bit aspirational, vague and based on what "might" be possible and "might" be nice to have. Your house sounds great.
Solve the problems you actually have - storage and laundry. The solution to a bit more storage and more convenient laundry is not a new house.
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on April 12, 2012
If you listen to your wife, also pretend your mortgage IS that higher number and sock that extra amount into savings.
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Also, I'd recommend sticking with the maintenance issues you know versus the ones you don't.
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Thank you so much for the advice. Everyone has given us so much to think about. Just in case anyone wants to chime in on anything else (please do!) here are a few tidbits to add in.
1) We really cannot easily add on to the house, unless we go up, which is more than we are willing to spend for this neighborhood. Adding out on the first floor becomes difficult due to the grade of the ground and the tree/root cover we have. Adding up would make our house literally the most expensive house in the whole neighborhood by a factor of x2. We'd rather not be the neighborhood queen.
2) Our main concern in not selling now and trying to sell again next year (or even late this year) is where will the interest rates be? Right now we have buying power, but later on we might not. Does anyone here have any experience in this or thoughts on where things are headed? We bought our house at 5.6 and now we can get 3.7 easily which buys a lot more house. However, if we wait, are we going to lose our advantage?
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"You have to deal with that. You have to fight. I know that the only thing I can control is what I'm doing off the court: my practice, how I do my schedule. I always try to improve."
He added that Tuesday's victory had its roots in his failures against Djokovic, when he realised he had the tools to go the distance with the six-time major champion.
"I think last year I took a lot of confidence with those (matches) with Novak. It was really close. I was playing good. We always have great battles," he said.
"I came on the court tonight with a lot of confidence on myself, knowing that if I play my best game, I always have a chance against him."
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fun& flirty This dress is super fun and flirty. Looks great in Marine. I want it in black for myself. Its super flattering too! April 23, 2011
Short! Wearing this dress for a friend's wedding, and it looks lovely from the front. I'm 5'10 and curvy so short dresses are always a gamble. This one would be perfect, except the slit in the back goes all the way up. And i mean all the way. My tush is pretty much completely exposed. So, I'm taking it to be sewn up and i hope this fixes this issue, because otherwise the back view is a little obscene. Otherwise, I'm very happy with the dress. As I said, from the front, it's gorgeous. April 21, 2011
Disappointed If you are 5'10" or taller, do not get this dress. I don't know if there was a mix-up with mine, but I am not happy. My rear end pretty much hangs out the slit in the back of the dress and it is way above my knees. Not appropriate for a wedding at all. I also second the thoughts on the zipper. I was afraid it was going to break on me. For the price of this dress I am not satisfied with the value of it. April 15, 2011
Horrible I am the bride. I picked out this dress. I didn't realize that it was going to be so cheap looking. I paid $80 after my coupon for buying my wedding dress. I think for $80 you should good a good dress. The seams are horrible you can see everything. The zipper is horrible. It is not well made that is for sure. I am not happy with how the dress is made if you inspect it. From a distance it looks ok. So for the pictures it will work. I just think that for the money; it should be made a little better. April 13, 2011
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