Homeless in Alaska

So, we're still homeless. We are a little more optimistic then we were yesterday when we first found out that there were no homes available for us here in Kodiak.

Since yesterday we have "moved up" on The List and we are now #5 in line to get a home!! We got the local paper with the listing of available rentals...only 1 of which we could possibly rent because all the others won't take dogs. We stopped by that possible rental yesterday afternoon. It is a brand new 2 bedroom house...the guy is still making the house! We stopped by and the house "should" be done by Aug 20th. It doesn't have a kitchen yet and all the drywall is still exposed...it still needs a lot of work, but the guy thinks he'll probably have it done in a few weeks. He pretty much offered it to us if we were interested...so, we need to get back to him by Tuesday.



We're still waiting on a "Base House" - We fell in love with a vacant unit on Lake Louise...so, we need to hope/pray/chat/anything that they will be working on the house around the time our name is at the top of the list. They haven't started working on it yet and it seems that the Housing Office gives away a house per day...so...maybe! That's what we're crossing our fingers for right now.

There are about 10 vacant units right now. We're all just waiting on the contractors to get done with the units before we can move in. They are only allowed to work on 2 units per day...so, I'm not sure how it will all work out, but I am hoping that we'll kind of have a better idea on everything early next week.

We also went around looking at possible house purchases that are on the market. The houses here are relatively cheap as compared to those in California. Like $250,000 is what we're looking at. However, I'm still not too confident that the numbers will work out with me still being out of work. But, we're looking at all our possibilities. If we did purchase something it would need to be "rentable" in the future, as we are only staying here for 3 years. So, we'll see how everything pans out.

It was SUPER HOT here today and I went around in a tank top most of the afternoon. I think we must be closer to the sun, or something. The temp in the truck said 66 degrees, but it felt like 90!!