Blog-i-ver-sa-ry Week! Happy Birthday, House!

It’s been one year since we closed on our house!  Which means it’s time for a little bit of reflection…. It’s been one year since we crazily decided to put in an offer on *this* house – the very same weekend I was prepping for a major examination that damn near killed me.  I think [...]

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Blog-i-ver-sa-ry Week! A House Hunting Retrospect!

We interrupt this regularly scheduled programming to encourage you to head over to Remodelaholic.com today and check out a little mention that our Laundry Room got.  Check it out – we’re feeling ver-klempt!  Cassity, you’re the BEST!! Since we’re still celebrating our one year anniversary of living in maison du Tell’er All About It, I [...]

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What to inspect after the home inspection…

The home inspection.  It’s a scary moment for a new homeowner.  What will the home inspector find that we didn’t find?  Will it cost us hundreds thousands of dollars to repair?  Do we have to repair it straight away or can we wait a few months?  These were a lot of the questions that were [...]

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The Foreclosure Crisis hits close to home…

So I think it goes without saying that the current real estate market sucks with a capital S-U-C-K-S! This was certainly evident when we were looking for our house where almost every other house we looked at was either in foreclosure or a short sale. Our house itself was a foreclosure, so we understand the [...]

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Goodbye Old, Hello New!

Hi, Readers! (all 2 of you!) Mad props to my Mother-in-Law (wow, that’s a lot of hyphens) for trekking to Portland today to help me clean out the old house! It’s as good as, if not better than, it was when J and I moved in a year ago! How time flies! The house was [...]

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