I live in a large blue house.  bright blue actually.  Not my choice in color, that is what the last person that lived there painted it.  The annoying part of that is that now I have to wait until next spring before I can get rid of the atrocious color.  we bought the house in March and are sloooowly remodeling it.  Let me tell you the annoying story of how we got the house and where we are at with it right now.  This WILL be long. 
  So, my hubby is finishing up his BA at the moment so since he is working on that we have just been renting.  Well, last fall his father decides that it is a fabulous idea for us to purchase a house here since we are paying for rent and could be paying for a house payment.   That and the houses here are very low priced in comparison to where he is at.  He just could not believe the "deals" around here.  We, sadly are not in the best credit situation at the moment so he says very willingly that he wants to get the loan for us and we can pay him payments.  I am extremely wary of this since I feel that he has been very condescending to us the whole time that we have been married.  He is constantly telling my husband how worthless he is basically and how what he is doing is such a waste and that he should just take the first good paying job he can get because he is not going to make it and he needs to take care of his family.  That is summing up what was said.   Anyway, so although wary my imagination gets the best of me and I start thinking of how nice it would be to actually fit all our stuff in a house and be able to do whatever I want with it.  That and have WAY more privacy.  So we start looking and look for a couple months.  Nothing was really sparking my interest but we found one that we put a bid on that may have made us some money back when we sold it.  That did not happen.  By then I decide, screw it, we am just going to rent.  I was pregnant at the time also, so I just wanted to not worry about all that. 
  Even though we had stopped looking, his dad kept giving us places to check out.  I just ignored him for a while.  Then, I start thinking, we might actually be able to trust him this time that things will not get "icky".  He had a list of houses, so I checked them out and some that I found on my own too.  Long story shorter, I finally found this wonderful blue house (well actually he found it).  It is exactly what I wanted.  It is old with beautiful woodwork and has TONS of character and it is not falling apart.  It just needs a little love.  AND, it was an amazingly LOW price! The catch is that I have a certain demand that must be met.  I tell my husband that the only way I am willing to get this house is if we can get about $30,000 over what the house will be so that we can fix it up.  (trust me this is not a large amount for what we payed)  He says ok and talks to his dad and all is set.  Fast-forward a couple months to the time that we are ready to start sanding the floors prior to moving in.  We start getting crap from his dad that he did not get the loan for over tha amount at all and that the stuff we plan to do to the house has to be done by asking him for money little by little.  Does anyone see the hilarity of this idea??  How is the hell can you do a remodeling project when every little cent you need has to be pre-cleared and mailed to you?  That is pure insanity!!! Needless to say, being that I was still pregant, this man practically sent me into preterm labor because of the stress!  We finally got him to get a lowes card for us and even then the limit was 5,000.  Now, let me tell you all we had and have to do.  Reroof, sand floors, rip down wallpaper and replaster/paint walls,   tile 3 rooms, carpet the whole upstairs, paint the outside of the house, and well that is the main things.  So, he gets us the money to do the roof, oh, and we put in new heating and central air.  To get you to where we are now after arguing nonstop about the money we needed and explaining over and over that even if we had gotten the $30, 000, it still would have been paying less or the same as the other homes we were looking at. (now you see how cheap it was?  repo baby, repo)  He tells us that he will no longer give us any more money.  He had loaned us 15, 000 so far for fix up.  So, we are left at the moment with tons more walls to do, outside to paint, carpet, tiles and that is about it.  But we are starving students at the moment and we have kids too.  There is no way that we can pay for the rest that is needed to do.  Do you see my ridiculous situation?  The only thing I can think is how stupid I was to actually think that his parents would help us without causing issues.  And to top all that they told the whole fam on his side how great they were because they had bought us a home.  HOW SWEET!  Not like we are not making monthly payments to them or anything like that!  !@$!@$ Can inlaws be any more annoying?  They never fail to amaze me when I am around them either.  There is always something that makes be want to smack them upside the head.  I suppose I am just bitter bitter bitter.  It is a cool house though.  Even if we plan to sell it as soon as we finish remodeling.