Posted in Nesting, home design, tagged buying a house, first house, gogol, home design, painting walls, settlement on house, sherwin williams paint, the yellow wallpaper on September 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s been a hard week so far and I want to apologize to anyone I snapped at as of last night. Here’s what’s been happening:
We settled on the house Friday with a surprise $50 increase to our mortgage. That swallowed, we went looking at carpet and found something we both liked for the stairwell and [...]
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Once I get this house situation under control, I have to do more dress shopping. I haven’t had much enthusiasm about visiting another bridal boutique after calling and emailing a handful of the closest ones and learning that they don’t carry the dresses I want to try on.
My hope in securing our first house has [...]
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Posted in About Me, news, tagged article, baltimore sun, buying a house, first-time buyer, housing market, housing trends, new, real estate, the dagger on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another one of my articles was published on The Dagger today. I may be doing an interview with the Baltimore Sun about housing trends. I got an email from the real estate reporter there. I’ll keep you updated. Check out The Dagger to read Housing Market of Horrors: A 20-Something’s Guide To Buying a Home.
UPDATE: [...]
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Well, we went house hunting again. This time I think we may have found a winner, but we’re going to give it a few weeks of additional hunting to be sure. It’s a really cute townhouse with a big box-bay window that has a sill wide enough for two people, or one bookworm and her [...]
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Viewed two houses today. It was a lot of fun.
The first townhouse was the cheapest one we could find in the Rumsey Island community. On arrival, we couldn’t help but cringe over the number of children’s toys in the front yard. Once we stepped inside, it only got worse. Wow, this place was not [...]
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