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We got our appraisal back. The house is now worth 1.43 times what it was worth 1 year ago. We made it 43% better! The appraised value is on the low end of what we wanted, but it's within spitting distance. In this crappy market.

We did it. Winning!

Can I get a "who-hoo"?

Leedy home featured in AIA Design Matters 2011

Well, even if our appraisal tanks, we still have this victory: our house is featured in the upcoming AIA Fall Home Tour -- Design Matters: A Tour of Exceptional Portland Homes.

"Exceptional" -- I can dig it. Perhaps that's why the appraiser says it'll be difficult to appraise the house. It's exceptional. The exception.

We are not ordinary. We are extraordinary. (But despite this Mr. Appraiser, please, please represent us well with Mr. Banker.)

http://designmattershomestour.eventbrite.com/

Oh, and bonus points: check out the date of the home tour. Binary day!!!

I have to (ap)praise you

We've come a long, long way together

Through the hard times and the good

I have to celebrate you, baby

I have to (ap)praise you, like I should

We're having a bank appraisal today. It's possible that I will have a nervous breakdown before early afternoon.

I'm hoping that the power of positive thinking will get us through. Think good thoughts.

And if you want, you can sing this in your head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex1qzIggZnA

See you in a couple of weeks then...

Well, the house isn't finished enough for an appraisal. Apparently we need finished bathrooms, kitchen and bedrooms for it to be habitable. Come on! Greg could easily live in it in its current state. (In retrospect, this seems pretty sensible, but we Leedys are dreamers.)

So....let's get the bathrooms and bedrooms done and move that kitchen!

Here's a picture of the house sans port-a-john. It comes back this week, but for a brief, shining moment, it was gone.

Hope springs eternal...

We have an appraiser looking at the house today. It'd be really good for us if this meeting went well.

If you wanted to send some happy, hopeful thoughts our way, we'd gladly accept them.