I closed on my house today. It was a pretty relaxing day. Went to work in the morning. Went to the gym at 11. Got lunch at sheetz, then headed down to do a final walkthrough and take some video of the house at 1. Started the settlement at 2.

Sarah showed up for the settlement which was cool. I had asked her the day before if she would be at my ( Read more... )

I started checking a site called failblog a couple weeks ago for a quick laugh every afternoon. I had to share this one :)

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Stolen from mortuus.

The rules are thus:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic makerThe questions ( Read more... )

stolen from mortuus

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Watch it. its funny :)

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So I am several steps closer to being a home owner. I spent most of yesterday afternoon calling random banks, lenders, and mortgage brokers looking for money. I need to borrow approximately a quarter of a million dollars to pay for my house. Whenever I say that to people, they usually respond with "holy crap!" But when I remind them that it is the ( Read more... )

Ok, so I decided to pretty much ignore all of you (except for Kevin). Kevin told me to go for it.

In fact, here is what Kevin emailed me (keep in mind that I actually made the offer before I got Kevin's email):

I'd say go for it. 310 is a great price, and if he'd rather sell to you that's good as well. the fact that he'll pay your mortgage for ( Read more... )

I was watching some CSI Miami reruns on A&E this evening, and the show ended with this song. I thought it was really good, so I decided to look it up.

It is a song by Jeff Austin Black (never heard of him) and is called "Save Us All"

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ok, so here is an interesting situation. As many of you may know, I've been in the market for a house on and off for the past 3 years. I happen to mention this at Max's a week ago and Jamian, one of my favorite bar tenders, mentions that he needs to sell his house since he just bought a single family house. He has two kids, and is planning on ( Read more... )