Sep
25
Flip Floppin’ Around
September 25, 2007 | 2 Comments
Spent a few hours yesterday kicking around in House #2 and got a bit of demo work done, but mostly I tried to firm up assorted plans, so that I knew exactly what to lay out to contractors later on in the week.
The theme once again seems to be scaling back of original plans, which […]
Sep
23
House #2 = Closed
September 23, 2007 | 3 Comments
We closed on House #2 on Friday. I’d like to add “…and things went off without a hitch,” but that’d be a half-truth.
No hitches in the normal sense, as the funding came through fine, we signed everything, got the key, all that happy stuff. The hitch was that we got hit with 2.5% origination fee […]
Sep
20
And I Say to Myself: “My God, what have I done?”
September 20, 2007 | 2 Comments
All systems appear to be go for closing on House #2 tomorrow afternoon. No real hitches, other than a potential last-minute snag with the seller’s plans of doing a mail-in closing, but that got ironed out this morning.
Still no action as far as selling House #1, which is leading to a bit of anxiety but […]
Sep
11
Calm Before the Storm
September 11, 2007 | 1 Comment
Not a heck of a lot to update on the house front. House #1 is still on the market and we’re still set to close on September 21st on House#2. Got the official confirmation that we’re locked in with 95% financing for the 30 year mortgage I’m going with on this one, so that’s good […]
Sep
7
Kitchen of House #1
September 7, 2007 | 1 Comment
More photos seem to have gone AWOL on me, as far as before, but here are a few before/after photos, focusing on the counter area of the kitchen, where the bulk of work went into:
Continuing the general theme of the rest of the house, I didn’t make any massive changes to the kitchen structurally, and […]
Sep
6
Foreclosures, Owner Financing, Short Sales, and Other Fun Stuff
September 6, 2007 | 4 Comments
Not a lot of good news in the data coming out so far this month, as far as anyone clinging to the hope that the worst is behind us in the struggling US housing market. The numbers for total pending listings in July released yesterday were pretty terrible, dropping to levels not seen since 9/11/2001, […]
Sep
5
Good Idea or Huge Pain in the Neck?
September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Interesting development with House #2 the last few days, which I haven’t yet encountered. Our realtor is the listing agent for a house directly across the street from House #2, and was driving by yesterday when he noticed a couple peeking in the windows of the house he’s listing. He stopped and talked to them […]
Sep
3
Back in the Land of Barbeque
September 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Got back into town last Friday after a week or so in LA doing another poker tournament reporting gig, and I have to say I’m pretty glad to be home. The trip was fun, though, and definitely not as stressful as the July trip to Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker. It was […]
Sep
3
Bathroom of House #1
September 3, 2007 | 1 Comment
After poking around a bit, I discovered I didn’t have any before photos of the Main St. house bathroom. Boo, me. I’m not sure how that happened, as I definitely know I took some, but they didn’t seem to get filed in the appropriate electronic bin, and now I can’t locate them.
So here are some […]