February 2011

It’s Mine!

The house is mine!  Well, mine and the bank’s.  But some of it’s mine! Closing finally happened yesterday afternoon.  It wasn’t the smoothest of processes getting there, and I got my final numbers for settlement not an hour and a half before.  Thankfully, I could just do a wire transfer online.  Let me tell you, …

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Counting down

Before I start, one random thing that I’ve found laughable over the past few weeks.  My spam blocker catches most of the spam that’s posted to this blog, thankfully, but I always skim through them just to make sure no real comments were caught.  And the spammers are trying some interesting techniques right now.  The …

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It’s Good!

The re-inspection went so incredibly well!  My inspector had a huge grin on his face.  “They really did this right.  I can’t believe how much money they put into it.”  I’m so excited.  I’m officially buying a house on Friday! Still waiting to hear the final total that I have to bring to the table …

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So! Much! Stuff!

So even though I don’t know whether or not I’m buying a house next week, I’ve started packing.  In order to save money, I’m doing most of the move myself (everything but furniture, or at lest that’s the plan).  So I’m going to be doing it slowly, taking boxes over in my car a couple …

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I hate waiting

Thanks to everyone for your comments on what I should charge my roommate.  Lots of things to consider there, and I appreciate any more advice that may come in.  I think part of the reasons for my struggle is that I feel like I’m forcing this move on her.  Sure, she doesn’t have to come …

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