Today after work I had a meeting scheduled with a second Realtor to see if they would be a good fit for me. After meeting with a Realtor on Wednesday I had an idea of what to expect. I was still pretty anxious, but not nearly as much as before I met with the first…

After interacting with a few potential real estate agents I managed to set up appointments to meet with three of them to determine which, if any, of them I would be working with to help me buy a house. Now that I’d moved past the initial emails and phone calls, it got a little bit…

After getting a better set of data to work with and going over the numbers a few more times, yesterday I came to the conclusion that I was finally ready to seriously start looking a buying a house. It’s been a long time coming, starting with paying off all of my debt, then saving up…

I’m a numbers guy. Not in the mathematician sense, but in that I won’t commit to a purchase until I can see how it’s going to play out before I do it. For most situations that’s pretty easy, look at the price of the item. Do I have enough money? Yes. OK, I can buy…

Back in July I posted about my needs and wants for buying a house. At the time I listed being near Bethlehem as a want. In the comments of the post Tammy suggested that I move it to a need. At the time I didn’t think it was that big of a deal, but the more…