Tag: buying a house
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August 24, 2008 03:18 PM EDT --
I had my sister in Minnesota (where we are moving to next month) go to 3 homes that we were interested in. 1 was too horrible to even consider, the other 2 are possibilities. Here are the pictures from . . .
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July 30, 2009 02:49 PM EDT --
NOT my favourite activity - but definitely the order of the day.
I have left messages for:
4 insurance brokers , including the one that is covering for ours while he is on holiday (and who . . .
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August 03, 2009 03:44 PM EDT --
So ...I'm almost done ...so close to done I can taste it.... I'm on page 43 (of 50) and into the stuff I actually want to write about ... still got to go back and fit some of the stuff I don't want to . . .
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August 11, 2009 03:53 PM EDT --
I am on a roll today.
Finished up my major research paper - did all the edits my advisor advised, added a few more bits to push it closer to the page requirement, and added the Works Cited page (a . . .
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July 29, 2009 09:55 AM EDT --
What the heck - I'll bite. Not that I need a new journal because I have a source - when I do journal regularly I use Julia Cameron's The Artists' Way journals - and when I need a new one I just whine . . .
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August 16, 2007 12:24 PM EDT --
I am a nervous wreck. At sixty years old I am buying my first home. Holy cow what a bunch of hoops to jump through. I can buy a pick-up truck that costs the same as my house with just . . .
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December 02, 2007 02:49 PM EST --
I started writing sometime in August about my adventures and frustrations of buying a house and moving it to my town. Well on Friday November 30th tjhe carpenter visited me at work and said the skirting . . .
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June 13, 2008 04:26 PM EDT --
It's been coming for a while, as most of you know. We are officially closing on the 19th, and taking immediate possession of the house. That doesn't give us time to get the house painted first, . . .
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July 13, 2009 10:32 PM EDT --
Well - that was ~fun~
Or something.
We started our day (after the 2.5 hour drive) at an apartment for rent. The apartments are ....well....apartments. Not impressive, but I could live there. Ross, . . .
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July 23, 2009 06:35 PM EDT --
I am SO stressed!
I want MY HOUSE!
Ross keeps saying we will send the offer in .... in the morning ... then after we get back from .... then after HE gets back from Home Depot .....
maybe . . .
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July 27, 2009 12:10 AM EDT --
Those of my connections who were around in the two weeks before my wedding last April might remember the rush renovation we did then.
Ross was supposed to be doing FLOORING - just FLOORING ... . . .
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July 28, 2009 08:50 AM EDT --
We did not get everything that we had hoped done. But we did get a lot finished - and cleaned up (which was the hard part) .... and hopefully it was enough.
The bathroom went from this
to . . .
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July 31, 2009 09:48 AM EDT --
Hicks!
One of the companies I called about insurance for the new house is up here in Midland - we deal with them for our other properties so it seemed reasonable to at least contact them for a quote. . . .
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July 31, 2009 04:07 PM EDT --
So .... our MB is out on a boat somewhere - started her long weekend early.
Nice of her. Lying *(^&*&$^&%&#!
We have a message on our answering machine that says "you have been . . .
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August 18, 2009 08:52 PM EDT --
We did bunches of errands today - hopefully got things sorted out so that I will get a pay for the work I've done over the summer - SO much hoop jumping! Too much; it made me cranky.
Jay & a friend . . .
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August 21, 2009 01:25 PM EDT --
Wallpaper is sounding better all the time!
We have finished washing down every wall in the house with TSP - and now the real ~fun~ begins.
We are NOT professional painters, Ross & I. We are not . . .
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September 18, 2007 10:23 AM EDT --
To quote that great American my moving story is summed up by, "Well, there you go again". So Friday I have one half of the house-On Monday as promised the other half of the house came with . . .
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May 30, 2008 06:22 PM EDT --
The appraisal FINALLY went through, and the house is going to be ours. We have to do some small fixes before we close in 2 weeks, but all of that aside, we're moving!
I gave our notice . . .
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April 21, 2008 05:11 PM EDT --
About 6 weeks ago, Nick and I made an abrupt decision to look for a house. This is something we've gone through before with a specific relative-owned house, and my step-father is a realtor, so we . . .
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September 22, 2008 08:00 PM EDT --
A some of you may know, we are buying the house nexto door to the duplex my husband and I live in. The house belongs to his mom and dad, who have been separated for almost three years now. The house has . . .
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