Well…this morning when I was mowing the front lawn, Dan, the guy who has been rehabbing the house across the street, came over to chat for a while and told me that the owner’s son, his wife, and their small child will be moving in  a couple of weeks from now when they get the house finished…that will be cool to have another occupied house here in the neighborhood and the same guy owns the run down house next door to that one and they are going to start on the exterior on that one next. But, the big news is that the vacant lot across the street has been sold and they are going to build a new house on it…I really hope that last one is true because that will make two new ones behind me and one new one and one rehabbed one across the street….and I counted 7 new houses already in progress within two blocks of me and I can already count the money from what that is going to do to the value of my house….I really don’t have to think much about that since this is probably the last house I’ll live in but I can leave more to my kids and I have more equity that I can borrow against if I need it….pretty cool turn of events…and I might be able to get a car loan and buy a really nice Miata…