Category Archives: Personal

Happy Fathers Day!

June 20, 2010 – 4:48 pm
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Only 358 Easy Payments Left To Go

May 10, 2010 – 1:20 pm

The joys of home ownership have kept me from doing much blogging, not to mention the lack of things to write about. Buying a house has somewhat dampened my interest in real estate and the market. The long list of chores still undone on the new place have taken away a lot of the time [...]

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Snow Day

February 11, 2010 – 12:03 am
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A Tale In Pictures

February 9, 2010 – 1:12 am
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Final Walkthrough

February 8, 2010 – 10:11 am

And then off to the closing table. Wish me luck.

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Did I Say Friday?

February 3, 2010 – 10:30 am

I meant Monday. Monday for sure.

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New Closing Date

January 29, 2010 – 8:28 pm

Friday, February 5th at 11:30 AM. Cross your fingers everyone.

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Closing Delayed

January 22, 2010 – 11:52 am

From my attorney this morning
I was just informed that the bank has pulled the file for re-review of the appraisal. Apparently the area in which the house is located is deemed a “declining market area” and the bank has asked the appraiser to provide 2 recent comparables to which he must conduct a field [...]

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Closing In On Closing

January 16, 2010 – 11:03 am

Well, it looks like our closing date is set for January 25th. There are still a few things that could get us bogged down, but at this point I’m reasonably confident that we’ll be homeowners (well, us and the bank of course) some time in the afternoon of that day.

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Sunday Night Updates

January 10, 2010 – 9:13 pm

Hey there HIB readers! Well, between work, trying to get the house situation locked down and chasing Aurora around I haven’t had much time for posting. Here are some updates, for those of you who are interested.
As of Tuesday last week, we are officially in contract. Yay! The documentation showed up at my lawyer’s office [...]

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