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Today I went looking at houses. I met Clyde at a coffee shop, a Tim Hortons to be more exact, before we set out on the journey. First stop, a nice town house in the hood. It was nice for the top of the end for me. Clyde asked me how I felt about this place. I said I could live there, it wasnt bad.

Clyde go a phone call from one of his clients. He took the phone call. It was from someone wanted to buy a house. They just needed to know some of the details that they were unsure about. Like molding, colours, flooring. Those things. Clyde called up the seller realtor and asked some question. Then he phoned his clients back with the answer.

Next we went to go see a place he was preparing to sell, his own property. The place was all right but I still liked the first townhouse that I saw. Clyde asked me how I felt about this one, I said liked the first one better. I didnt want to go for it because it was his property.

Next we went to go see an apartment. As we started to drive there things started to look familiar. Yep this is getting close to where Carrie lives. I keep calm and cool about what is going on. We stop at a light. We are turning one way and Carries home is like two blocks in the other direction. Clyde is talking about places to live, because that is his business. He mentions that the houses in the direction we are not going are the low income housing projects.

We drive a couple of blocks and we arrive at the place he wants to show me. He gets a call. It is from his client again they want to make an offer on the house. He asks me if it is okay that he makes another phone call. I say yeah. He phones the seller realtor and talks for like 15 minutes with me waiting there. I am not bothered by this. I am in no hurry to do anything right now.

When he finally gets off the phone and we cant find the lock box. He phones up the realtor and asks where the key is. It is in a unique location where is should not be. We find the key and into the apartment.

We look at the place. I notice that the windows in the place all face the direction of Carries house. If there werent a couple of buildings in the way, I could see her house. I wonder to myself if Carrie is back. I wonder if she is all right.

Clyde then asks me about how I feel about the place He has no idea how about how torn up inside I am feeling right now. I would living really close to a person that I have fallen for close to some good friends, or they were good friends but at the same time those good friends are slipping away from me... It feels like I am losing my family. And what would I do if I saw them in the neighborhood? I dont know.

But putting that aside, I didnt like the space in the place. To cramped and a really stupid layout. There are columns in the middle of all the room. There is no room for anything. I need space yo.

Clyde then takes me to one more place in the south side of town. On the way he is talk about his job. And how if he makes another sale in the next couple of week he will be in the millionaires club or something. I think you have to sell like a house every six days for an entire year. I thought that was pretty cool.

Clyde also tells me that it is so cool that I am being cool about him talking to client while showing me houses. He says when it comes time to actually buying or selling a house the clients are all needy and want your attention all the time. To go over every little detail. Yep I know that feeling

Clyde also tells me a story about how he lost a selling of a house because some one was not patient enough. Clyde was worked like 16 hours a day from 6 days straight and he just wanted one hour to himself to play soccer. He sets his voicemail to say that he will be unreachable for that one hour. A potential buyer calls wanting to place a bid on a house but since they could reach him, they didnt place a bid. Lesson to learn, when someone asks from some time, give it to them. They will be thankful that you did.

I see the last apartment. And I like it. Now I kind of know what I am looking for in a place to live. But in other aspects I have know idea what I want. I have to think about things

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Having the house hunting experience with Clyde, I have to write Carrie. I have to let her know that I am okay with her taking her space. She will let me know why when she returns.

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