If you ever want to buy a house...

Read this blog and then go rent yourself a nice apartment.

And particularly don't buy a house in another state.

And don't put your house up for sale. I guarantee tht if you are putting a house up for sale, a nice house, a house with nothing wrong with it, it will immediately (when the deal is signed) start losing hubcaps, the fenders will fall off, and the motor will start making a really funny noise.

No wonder our ancestors lived in caves.