I was very, very discouraged last night. I could honestly not find a single house online that I was happy with in Pasig. Everything I liked was way too much. Location was working against us in a big way.
A called this morning. He thought he had a lead on a house that sounded promising, but when he got there, there was evidence of flooding and the rest of the house was in bad shape, and then the realtor got all angry at his brother for taking photos, so they just bailed on her. He wasn't happy with the other houses they looked at, either, so he's thinking we'll go back to looking where we were before and he'll just deal with the commute. Apparently, there is a highway that will cut the commute down a bit for him, so we'll see.
He has been walking around some malls and stuff, too. He said there are some privately run libraries we could look into, and that the stores there have a lot more American stuff in them than when he was last there; like Hershey's chocolate and Doritos and whatever. Some of that stuff I was kind of looking forward to not having access to, to be honest! Oh, Doritos... Why must you chase me across the world like this?
But I digress... Today, A will be finding out precisely what we need to do for our visas and then tomorrow or the day after the house search will begin in earnest. I can't wait for that to be done!
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You are amazing. I would be a mess thinking about all this but man what a great experience!!
I have my moments of insanity, but I think as a whole, I'm still holding up ok!
Is it possible that their online real estate abilities aren't as good as our own? Especially in English? You might have to hire a Filipino real estate agent. S/he might be able to lead you to houses that our w/n your price and commute range.
English is actually the second official language of the Philippines, so what they do have online, is easy to understand. But, yeah, only stuff geared toward foreign buyers is really found online. And by "foreign buyers" I mean "rich people." Since we haven't hit the "rich people" demographic yet, it's making it hard to find things we can afford.
Really, if I could be patient, it'd all be ok. He's meeting with people there who are helping him out, but I just can't sit back and wait. I have to help, which means sitting on the computer thousands of miles away and obsessing.
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