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Adventures in Real Estate: Part I
Friends, we bought a house. But before we bought a house, we looked at houses. And to better understand the horror of house hunting in this economic climate, some back story is in order. When the...
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Adventures in Real Estate: Part II
This post could be subtitled, “Houses we did not buy”. Let me tell you about one of them. House #1 We Did Not Buy: The Charming Farmhouse As detailed here, the very first house we looked at was a...
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Adventures in Real Estate: Part III
First of all, I swear and promise to have content tomorrow that isn’t real estate focused. It is just that the process of buying a house was so stressful that I have a lot of feels about it, and isn’t...
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Adventures in Real Estate: Part IV
So, yes, seriously, we are venturing into the Star Wars definition of ‘trilogy’ here, with this real estate series, but … blogging every day! Lots of real estate feels. It feels right. After we saw the...
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We Rock at Crafts
As a generally non-craft-doing person, I am just tickled with myself over these. Even though they cost us a fortune to make, I am so thrilled with how our valentines turned out! I am calling this a win...
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Hoping for the Dullest Weekend, Ever.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. But these jeans were only a month old! I told myself, when I started blogging again, that I wouldn’t talk about work (boring), or current events (everyone has...
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Real Estate: Stress Edition
Faithful readers know that I bought a house last summer, before I put my old place on the market, because I love paying property taxes so much that I wanted to do it at two addresses at the same time....
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Eating that damned frog!
So, about two months ago, I posted about how I had this big real-life project going on that I was avoiding like crazy. Because I was avoiding it, I wasn’t really getting anything else done, either –...
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Lakehouse Dreaming
I love the title of this blog post, because it makes it sound like I am at a lakehouse, dreaming, instead of sitting in front a computer all day, surreptitiously visiting web sites that list lakefront...
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And Then We Closed
After several failed contracts, a bank that was willing to write a pre-authorization for a mortgage but not actually give the buyer a mortgage, and a million showings, I am thrilled to be able to say...
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