Tag: house

  • Mortgage Mess Managed

    Back on October 1 I posted that my mortgage guy had put a contingency on my loan stating that I had to keep at least $15,000 in the bank or my interest rate would go up by 0.125%. It turns out this wasn’t completely accurate. It turns out that I had to keep at least…

  • Almost There

    This past week I was able to get a lot done on the house. The asbestos remediation was completed on Thursday and came in on budget and even though I had a bit of a freak out moment when watching Holmes Inspection about possible hidden asbestos in my attic, I checked in a few places…

  • Change Of Address

    I knew that when I bought my new house I’d have to change my address all over the place, but how to go about doing that wasn’t always very clear, so hopefully this post will help someone else who is moving one day. The first thing I did was to make a list of all…

  • The Fun Begins

    Yesterday I signed the paperwork and bought my first house! To say that I’m excited would be an understatement. By all accounts the settlement went very well. The seller was a very sweet old lady who was 96 years young and while she was sad to be selling the house she said she felt good…

  • As Ready As I’m Going To Be

    Wow, taking a few days off from writing just feels weird. After competing the 90 in 90 challenge I intended to wait until Monday to put up a new post, but after writing every day for three months I just felt incomplete going to bed without putting something, anything up here. Yesterday was a full…