I'm buying a house April 17th!!! We also managed to lock in an interest rate around 4.875% (which I think is insane).

Soooooo, we got estimates in that were significantly lower than our initial thoughts. Soooooo, we're going to make a somewhat lower offer (based on the estimates) and amend the contract a bit. Hopefully, all goes well.

Well, look at that. IE 8 got released today... Now I have quite a bit of testing to catch up on. ;)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/

So, the inspection went worse than I'd expected, again. Judgements I made about things I suspected of being trivial and/or indicative of normal behavior got reversed. Other things I didn't know about were also problematic. So, it's a good thing I'm not your home inspector (or my home inspector, for that matter). Dan Tucker is a freaking dynamo when ( Read more... )

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The description and comments on this are classic.

One of my favorites is:

"This is one of the ( Read more... )

Our strategy worked! We paid a little more for the house than asking (~$5k), but it still seemed like a fair price for the home. The contract is really just awaiting a signature and we'll start inspections next week ( Read more... )

So, we went to take a look at a house today that would "sell quickly". It went on the market today and we went to take a look around 5pm and really liked. Guess what? Someone was going to put a full-price offer on it today. Natural next step? Make a bigger offer.

We'll see what happens...

This is the comic for you...

http://xkcd.com/552/

So, my hotmail address got hacked. Weeee. Some of you might have gotten email about it. I'm changing passwords "enterprise-wide" now. The sad thing is that I knew about the problem and never really resolved it. I'm also cleaning up my contact lists.

Personally, I blame MySpace.

Some fun facts about this:

• Websites are still stupid about passwords ( Read more... )

So, in .NET 2.0, you still can't serialize a TimeSpan (which is stupid because you can certainly parse them from a string and format one into a string). There are a series of workaround for this, my favorite being to use ToString and TimeSpan.Parse() on a string property that you don't intend on using. So, I thought I'd get clever and try something ( Read more... )