plentiful rain falling
water draining into hole in ground
puddle gathering deeply
water seeks its level inexorably
pumps are my friend

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Well, the house buying and selling drags on, although the end should be in sight ( Read more... )

The house echoes. The acoustics of an empty house with no carpeting (save for the stairs) are very lively ( Read more... )

We arranged a container to be placed in our driveway. It's not from PODS; it's from United-Mayflower, and seemed to be of superior quality while being less expensive that PODS. Clearly, the container is meant to be stacked several high, judging from the corner posts ( Read more... )

So the buyer finally arranges the home inspection. We get the report. I haven't seen it yet, but to say my wife is livid would be a monumental understatement.

Among the gems was the characterization of the dryer as "aged" (I think meaning "will need repair or replacement within five years"). The dryer was installed in August. Or was it July. New.

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The bank has finally ratified and accepted our offer to purchase 9219 Greenwood Lane, Lanham, MD. Google Maps has street level pictures that are accurate. I've put several dozen photos of insides and outsides over on PhotoBucket. The album is: s84.photobucket.com/albums/k31/herveus/9219%20Greenwood%20Lane/

We have a moving container scheduled to ( Read more... )

We are reliably informed that the listing agent has changed the status of the property to "under contract", although that hasn't propagated to all the listings, so you can see it below:

http://www.trulia.com/property/3058590370-9219-Greenwood-Ln-Lanham-MD-20706

Still no formal word from the bank that they have accepted our offer, but...

Meanwhile, ( Read more... )

We have a properly executed contract on our current house. Yay! Settlement on 28 October, circumstances permitting ( Read more... )

We signed the contract tonight. Now it needs to get a few more initials and dates from the buyer to be completely official, but it looks like we will become homeless before Halloween.

We have four properties we want to look at on Sunday. One appears to have an apartment over the garage. All appear to be reasonable at first glance. We have another ( Read more... )

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30 Rock
7th Heaven
Adam-12
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Alias ( Read more... )