When he was done, he came over and with a very pleasant voice, started up a conversation. It turns out he is single and looking for a house that he and his sister can buy and live in together with her children. If he liked this house, he would like to eventually turn it back into a one family home (right now it has been converted into a two family home).

So, what do I do? I proceeded to answer all of his questions rather negatively, pointing out that I had thought about buying it but decided it would be too hard to convert back to a one family house, how I really liked the area but it might not be the best for little kids, how the house was owned by the church and had a lot of "patch work" done on the inside. And so on and so on.

Why? I have no idea! Maybe it's because I secretly hope the house never sells so the church realizes they are lucky I actually bought this house and shouldn't have been so nasty during the negotiations.

But, regardless, I should have embraced the possibility of having a neighbor who actually lives in the house that he owns, rather than simply renting it out to college kids who will move in and out in droves....... ESPECIALLY a good looking, nice guy who certainly looked strong enough to shovel the snow off the shared driveway in the winter!

And there you have it.