Ever wonder how much your house is worth given the current market conditions? Historically this has not been an easy question to answer. I’ve typically kept track of this by searching the county records for recent sales that were kind of similar to my house in location, size, year, etc. This is only manageable because [...]
I recently went through the mortgage process and learned just how much of a mess closing costs could be. Each broker that I compared against used slightly different terminology and broke down costs in a variety of ways. Some calculate various pieces like taxes and insurance using a different number of days, making it even [...]
Haven’t had much time to update the site recently. Last Saturday we moved into the new house. I have a ton of things that I learned in the process that I’ll be posting over the next couple weeks.
We finally had our first Safeway.com delivery today. (yea, yea, I know I said I [...]
With an upcoming move into a house (yea! only 11 more days to go), I stopped by our apartment rental office to cancel our covered parking spots and discuss the last month and a half of our lease when we will no longer need our apartment. Since the house and the apartment lease overlap, [...]
We’re in the process of purchasing a home, and several friends have asked how I went about the process. The first thing that I would highly recommend is to scope out the area. Especially when you are relatively new to an area, taking a full day and driving everywhere you think you may [...]