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April 19th: For Sale?!

2007-04-19 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

Hank finds his rented house (with the one behind it) listed for sale by his landlord, weighs what he loves about Missoula against its drawbacks, and says that having roots in a place matters and his impulse is to stay.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; Hank's house and a woodpecker; what he found in the front yard this morning: his house is for sale

  • ★★★ Hank woke this morning to find, in his front yard, that his house is for sale; he says that's not okay and he doesn't know how to sell his house. — 00:00:03

00:00:46 — The landlord works for Lambros Real Estate; why Hank likes the house; $515,000 for it and the house behind; a mortgage broker calls

  • ★★ Hank's landlord also works for Lambros Real Estate selling houses, and apparently sometimes sells the houses he owns. — 00:00:46
  • ★★ Hank likes the house: a cool basement where he makes his videos, works and hangs anime posters, and it's about three blocks from five different friends. — 00:00:46
  • ★★ The listing is $515,000 for Hank's house and the house behind it together; he doesn't want two houses and isn't sure he wants one. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:14

00:01:42 — Mortgage brokers calling; loving Missoula despite little work and bad winters; friends not moving back; moving would be a pain; the likely scenario of a buyer keeping the renters

  • ★ Having looked into what buying would cost, Hank now gets calls from mortgage brokers all the time and says he should have just asked Dad. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:42
  • ★★★ Hank says they love Missoula despite little work, bad winters and this spring, and two friends not moving back; the community and people are great and its size is comfortable. — 00:01:42 · Missoula, Montana
  • ★★ Moving out would be a huge pain; Hank thinks the most likely scenario is a buyer glad to keep a renter and the rent income. (hedged) — 00:01:42

00:02:29 — Up in the air; where you live matters; roots and knowing the community; the bookstore owner praises John's book; the local-section author behind his house and The God of Animals; his impulse to stay; sign-off

  • ★★★ Very up in the air about the place and their future, Hank says where you live is extremely important and he is starting to like having roots and knowing the community. — 00:02:29
  • ★★ Hank talks with the man who runs the local bookstore about John's book, which he likes and keeps featured almost as a local author's because John's brother lives there. — 00:02:29 · John Green
  • ★ In the bookstore's local section Hank can point at books and say where their authors live; one author lives in his backyard, and her house is for sale too. (playful) — 00:02:58
  • ★★ Hank is reading The God of Animals, about a 12-year-old girl; he thinks it is kind of young adult but marketed as adult fiction, and likes the first couple of chapters. (hedged) — 00:02:58
  • ★★★ Asking what they should do, Hank says his impulse is to stay, and it would help if more people shared it: he is tired of watching friends leave town. — 00:02:58

00:03:39 — Asks for comments on the EcoGeek.org video podcast intro

  • ★★ Hank asks for comments or suggestions about his EcoGeek.org video podcast intro. — 00:03:39 · EcoGeek

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