Day 54

The realtor couldn't meet with us today. She had to deal with some other issues. She has two houses where the appraisal came in at lower than the selling price. In one case the appraisal came in at $110,000 on a house that was to sell for $120,000. That's quite a discrepancy.

Since we were on our own, we decided to go back over to Wimberly and look at a couple of places that the realtor had suggested yesterday. We also went back and looked at the house with the nice lot and the marginal house. We looked at the lot in detail. It is indeed very nice. The problem is that it would take a fairly major remodeling effort (extend an exterior wall) to make the house the way we would like it.

Two of the new houses that we looked at are possibilities. One is new construction that's almost done on a 1 acre lot. The lot is small, but the house is really nice. You can't really tell though until it's completely finished. We could only drive by the other house. It looks good from the outside, but we'll have to tour it.

Looking at these houses didn't take all day, so we went over to the outlet malls in San Marcos. There are two sets. One is upscale (Gucci, Coach, etc.). The other is more run of the mill (Black and Decker, Kays, Rockport, etc.). They are both huge, at least 50 stores each. We walked all the way around both of them. We scored another Christmas present. I think we're finished except for a watch for little brother. I'll probably order that online tomorrow.

There weren't a lot of people at the malls, but those that were there seemed to be buying stuff. There weren't the large markdowns that we saw last year.

We spent so much time at the malls that we had to stop at a drive in for dinner and hurry home in order to make it in time for Bingo. One has to have priorities. We didn't win anything, but it was still fun.

After Bingo I had to stand outside in the cold for half an hour while I refilled the fresh water tank and drained the gray water tank. I figured it was better to stand out in the cold tonight than have to wake up earlier than normal in the morning to stand out in the cold and do it.

Tomorrow we'll go out with the realtor again.