me and jess did another round of house tours. found and put an bid on one that is in the city close to where we live now. been going back and forth with the owners all day. only could get them to go down $2000 so far. we are going to do one more tour of the house to look for major problems. taking an friend who works for the city (he is the guy we have to go to do get approval to have any major remodeling done to the house and beer and diner labor for anything we can do ourself)

if everything goes right, we may take there final offer.