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A rollicking quest through the wild world of real estate, Life WILL BE Perfect EASILY Lived in That House is the storyplot of "an extremely imperfect life resided among very imperfect houses" and one woman's obsession with the search for four wall surfaces (along with, preferably, a roof covering not in need of updating) to call home. Inside the six houses and many areas where Meghan Daum put in her suburban child years, for the Daum family, "if there is anything that came up close to a regular weekend activity it was joining open houses." So it was no real surprise that Meghan put in her college career measuring time not by her levels or semesters but by the plane tickets of stairs (12 in all) she dragged her futon up and down as she transferred on the list of dorms and apartments of Vassar College. Post-graduation life in New York City found her haunted by "hidden room" dreams, and fantasies of impossibly inexpensive houses in the middle of Central Recreation area. Two techniques later, she is at Lincoln, Nebraska - house heaven: "From my New York perspective, the real estate in Lincoln was so affordable it almost looked free." But after the purchases of not just one but two farmhouses there dropped through, and a marriage fizzled, Meghan stuffed up her 85-pound sheepdog, Rex, threw her (tasteful) 20th-century antiques in safe-keeping, and headed for Los Angeles, where she blazed through some astoundingly improper sublets - and times that were doomed right away: "At 33 years old, the appearance of my home had officially become more important than my very own appearance. After decades of fretting about my mane and my thighs, my main concern now was whether a picture was crooked on the wall." Hungry for something that would underlying her to the planet earth, tired of "playing chief executive of [her] own personal local academy of desire", she embarked finally on the best real-estate experience: buying a residence of her own, on her behalf own. It had been 2004, and everything too easy to get caught up in the headiness of crowded open houses and "creative" home loans, bidding wars, and investment properties. Meghan - like the almost six million People in america riding a wave of perhaps irrational lust who purchased real estate that year - found herself depleting most of her personal savings to buy a 900-square-foot bungalow with an uninsurable garage that "bore a close resemblance to the ruins of Pompeii" and plumbing that "dated back again to the Coolidge administration." From unexpected enjoyment of finding original 1928 porcelain tiles intact under the toilet floor linoleum to a frenzied cupboard renovation in anticipation of a gentleman caller; from a desperate try to find (and switch off) the water main to the problems of fitting a new love into a residence built for one, Meghan Daum has given us, with delicious wit and a keen eyes for the absurd, a pitch-perfect, amazing history of her lifelong game of house.
