Woo-hoo, paid off the pension loan I have that’s listed as “defaulted” today, a couple years of $360-$400 a month payments — it feels great. The loan is one I took when I worked at my old job. I was able to transfer everything to my new job because both are public service… but I left the old one less than a month after 9/11… all my transfer requests fell on deaf ears (or dead computers?) Admittedly I got tired and gave up after about a year and finally got everything done a few years ago.. of course by the time they transferred it the loan on it was in default.

So I sucked it up and ratcheted up the amount I was paying to get it done and get it done as fast as I could… I went over now and spent my lunch half hour handing over the check for the fairly small final balance … now as soon as that clears I can wipe that icky mess off my credit report

My landlord sent a lease renewal a couple weeks ago informing me we now have to inform them 60 days before the lease ends of our intention to renew or not renew. I’m not sure it’s even legal to require 60 days as opposed to 30, but that’s not the point. I don’t plan to renew my lease. I plan to find a house… a home to OWN. It has been my plan to take a month to month rental when my lease was up while I get a house. I don’t want to be struggling with matching lease end dates with closing dates blah blah blah. I’m not sure I’ll get a mortgage. I’m not sure I’m interested in owning, but I am sick of landlords and rules and people minding my business. I also seek to invest what little I can into my city… and not join the the fleeing middle class to the outskirts of urban areas. (Although at this point I’m sure some of those with their hour commutes are sick of the commutes and the gas prices)

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