Weekly Report + Housing Situation Explained

Last week for me was droll as can be, but I worked with Leek on getting the previous six mini-commission scenes coded so they'll appear in-game as soon as dev cycles permit. It's been a slow grind, and it's about to get even slower for a bit.

But before that, Savin presented a doc for the next TiTS story planet at the dev meeting today and much time was spent going over it and talking about the future of the game, which will be shared in the coming weeks and months. Steam release stuff is being hashed out, mainly with achievement stuff still, and yeah. Lots of big things cooking up that just need time to roll out.

Here's what I promised to explain if things worked out. Well, things didn't work out 100 percent. With regards to the housing situation...

It was a few months ago that the rent was planned to be raised from $1300/mo to $2000/mo, prompting my family to initiate a move. At the worst possible time one could do that. Pretty much any place is charging all the same inflated leases these days - vastly overpriced properties, no maintenance. Completely fake advertisements and images. The works. I really did try to convince my folks that paying $2000 for an unmaintained rundown property - like the one we currently occupy - sure as hell beat suffering the whole process of uprooting and moving into a smaller, generally crappier property where we would be sacrificing our standards of living.

Compromise is fine, but never sacrifice.

Well it went on another month because there was just no place to move. And before it went on for another month, the surprise I mentioned a while back came in: the property manager brought an offer from the owners. They want to sell this property as-is way above it's actual valuation. 

Long-story short, I took it as an opportunity for me and my parents to get together and work out a mortgage loan and go through that entire rigmarole, which has been extremely exhausting in such a manner that words are insufficient to describe how beaten down it's gotten me. Roundtable calls and organizing documents every day just to facilitate these convoluted processes... but I was excited about suddenly becoming a homeowner.

Today - after another such entire period of dealing with the parties involved - all the cards are finally on the table. The sellers of this property refuse to budge in any way on the price they've given, which is extremely unreasonable. They're keen on surfing the market and "getting lots of offers" despite how old and how badly maintained their holdings are. So, we'll have to vacate likely by the end of May, so I'll keep you all posted on how things go. 

Assuming there are no further hiccups or stalls in all of this...

We still have the loan, so we'll just take it and buy some other place. That's where things stand.