pisica, we are pikers!

[winterbadger]

from Joe Haldeman's Live Journal

Gay and I have a slight but measurable chance of doing something along those lines. A small house went up for sale only a block away, just over the city line. I guess it's on the order of a hundred grand, maybe less. It would have room for tens of thousands of books. (And a cool office.)

We're already renting storage space for 5000+ books, which is a couple of hundred a month and just evaporates, no equity. At 4.5%, a 30-year mortgage on $100,000 is $507 a month. So it's roughly twice the payment to store those books, plus a few thousand of the ones hanging around the house, and get me a nice little office in the bargain. Maybe a backup guest bedroom.

But it's kind of nice, living without a mortgage.

Comments

From the "wildly missing the point" files...

[justjayj.livejournal.com]

...Joe Haldeman has an LJ?!?! Awesome.

Re: From the "wildly missing the point" files...

[winterbadger]

Indeed! I was fascinated when I found it. :-)

And, in other news, now you've made me want to go watch Wonderfalls again. :-)

[pisica.livejournal.com]

What's a piker??

- Pisica, jetlagged :)

[winterbadger]

One who does things by half measures or in a small way. You and I, at least in comparison to Mr H, don't have a book problem, we just pick up the stray volume from time to time..> :-)

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Of COURSE we do!