But, it’s not over. I’ve been approved for the mortgage, and signed some papers. But! But! Dear Moebius Stripper - here are six new listings. I highly recommend you take a look at them before removing subjects.

Argh. Fortunately (?) only one of them looks like it might be better than the one I signed on, and I doubt it. (2 bedrooms! More area! But, not south-facing and not in as good a location. And I don’t really want in-suite laundry.)

You don’t want in-suite laundry? That was one of my requirements. I don’t want to have to go outside to do laundry. (And I wasn’t interested in a large building or a new one, so it was in-suite or nowhere at all.) But you might as well look at it? Or not. Hard to say. How important is south-facing? I like more space, though sometimes I feel I am rattling around in this place (950 sq feet).

I don’t want in-suite laundry because 1) it’s a waste of space I’d rather use for other things, and 2) I don’t want the smell.

Mostly it is that I like to do laundry on the spur of the moment, or when I am out of clothes, and especially I like to let them run overnight.

And in the place I’ve signed, there’s laundry in the building (which I do insist on, being without a car and all).

I’d have considered the 600 sq ft, southfacing place whose listing my agent just sent me if I hadn’t just signed on a bigger place with a lower list price, lower maintenance fee, lower taxes, a sundeck, and bigger windows.

You know, other than being smaller, more expensive, and with less of what you want, that new place sounds ideal.