The good, the bad and the ugly

The good, the bad and the ugly. That sums up our house search thus far. Let's start with the ugly. Well, there's just too many examples of ugly looking buildings, apartments and duplexes. Mind you these are just the aesthetically challenged, the end product of some misguided 1970's architect who thought fake oak wall paneling looked good. Let me tell you without a doubt it doesn't in 2009 and I doubt it did in 1970. The bad is reserved for those places that are not only visually challenging for the eye but have owners with the audacity to over charge for it. These are the places that reek of that mysterious funk that you don't quite want to name. The surfaces of the kitchen and bathroom seem to have a ubiquitous greasy film covering everything, as if a grease fryer once resided front and center spraying the counters with an invisible oily mist. Avoid at all cost and count yourself lucky for leaving the Bate's Motel alive. That leaves us with the real estate equivalent of the good, or like Woolf's proclamation, a place that we can call our own.