See you soon Published April 27, 2005
Going offline for a few days. Lots of moving to do!
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Painting's Done Published April 25, 2005
Painting’s done. Thanks to Dan, Travis, Erich, Josh, Kristi, Matthew, and Titus who came by on Sunday to help out. It was good to see Titus. I felt bad that we couldn’t go out and do something, but at least I got to see him. We all had pizza and beer to celebrate all of the hard work and we enjoyed the evening. I still have more painting to do, but I am so burned out right now that I don’t even want to think about that.
Dead tired Published April 23, 2005
I just spent the last two days working on this house and I hate it. I’m frustrated that I didn’t get nearly as much done as I’d wanted to. We did get the carpet strips removed, but I found that I have a couple of broken stairs, some slivered wood, and a bathroom that is worse than I feared. Upon removing some loose paint around the tub, I managed to pull off the top layer of the drywall underneath the showerhead.
Dirty Walls Published April 19, 2005
Josh, Eric and I finished washing the walls in the living room and dining room tonight instead of practicing Karate. The walls were so filthy that we went through about 30 gallons of ammonia water for just two rooms. The color of the walls has changed quite a bit, and I think we may have actually taken some of the paint off of the walls too. That’s alright though because we will be painting it this weekend.
Floors from hell Published April 18, 2005
Carissa, Ana, and I spent the weekend over at the new house doing some work. We pulled up the carpet that was in the living room, dining room, and hallways. There was so much dust underneath the carpet that I couldn’t breathe. The smoke smell was awful and when we took the carpet outside to get it out of the house, I nearly threw up from choking. THere was almost an inch of dust on the floor where the carpet had been, but after we cleaned up the dust, the floor looked pretty decent.
Closing Time Published April 14, 2005
We closed on the house today. It really wasn’t a very big deal. We signed a lot of papers and read a lot of legal forms, at which time we were handed the keys. Dad and I spent some time this morning coming up with a game plan of how to handle some of the repairs that need to be done. But now I have to spend some time doing some work.
It’s On Published March 29, 2005
We are officially buying a house. Unless something horribly wrong is found during the inspection, we’re all ready to go. The offer was accepted today, and it’s been faxed to our loan officer. After I was told that it was accepted, I told Ana and she was just thrilled, but then she said “Daddy, I’m going to miss this place.” That’s when it sunk in; the fact that this place that I live in now, the place I’ve called home for almost three years, will no longer be my home anymore.
Update on the House Published March 27, 2005
Brian from Scheppke Real Estate called today. He’s taking care of our purchase while John is on vacation. He said that the reason the house is so cheap is because they’re settling an estate. That’s great news for us because the people who have to accept the offer have to come in from out of town to look at it. Hopefully they’ll just want to get it over with and we can get moving.
Celebration Published March 26, 2005
We spent about two hours going over paperwork and signing forms. We made our offer and John had already talked to the seller’s agent about the offer. John seems very confident that they will accept the offer. If they do accept, we will move in around April 20th, which will give us a week to paint and move. We grabbed some pizza and watched The Holy Grail with Erich and Josh.
“So I hear you want to buy a house!” Published March 25, 2005
John (our broker) called. We’re going to buy a house! We discussed how much to offer and I decided to take 2% off of the asking price. I think that should be more than fair. John seems to think that this is a great house as well, and he thought it was clear and away the best house we looked at. We have a meeting at 4:30 today to sign an offer.