The first step toward being an indigenous community in South Lake Union (SLU) is to move there. Now, housing in Seattle is ridiculous, let alone downtown Seattle. But over the past 4 months Brooke and I have been jumping through loops, taking out a home equity loan, consolidating debt, and praying alot because Vulcan Real Estate has a project called Veer Lofts. This project is geared toward first-time home buyers and therefore Vulcan has decided to place the listing prices under market value (how much? no one really knows, because they are still expensive). But because of this, and because SLU in in the process of taking off, there are over 600 people that want in on 99 units (ouch). Vulcan expected this though and so what they did is put all of us that jumped through all the loops into a lottery process. They then drew out the lottery cards, one by one, to establish the order that people could choose their unit. Obviously, we have no control over this process and so we had to wait patiently for a phone call to tell us when our date was that we could come down and pick out a unit. Well, the phone call came about a month ago and we found out that out of 600+ people our card got drawn 33rd. HOLY MOSES. we were stunned. but to top it all off, our friend and my partner in crime with Kai has gone through the same process and his card got drawn 39th. HOLY MOSES. The laws of probability tell me that there was less than a 2% chance of that happening. (i just made that up). So as we cautiously celebrate the day and time (December 4th at 5:15) get closer and closer.

So, if you are the praying time, please pray that a unit that we can both afford and like is still available for both Tim and Us. If you are the ‘thank your lucky stars type, then thank them for us. Or, if you are the ‘good luck’ type, then do what you can to throw luck our way.

peace
joel