…in his house.

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Today, I signed and initialed all of the paperwork necessary to take ownership of the house, and to secure the loans. It wasn’t nearly as painful as was suggested. I think I signed my name about a dozen times, and initialed about as many pages. In fact the entire process (other than actually getting an [...]

Third time’s the charm. My offer was accepted on a nice split level in Des Moines. Assuming inspection goes well, I should be moving in on April 15-16th. I’m excited!

Well, it’s official. I didn’t get the house. I was relegated to a “backup offer” early on, and the buyers that reached mutual acceptance, finally, after over a week of negotiations, struck a deal with the sellers. I don’t think I’ll submit another backup offer — the whole thing turned out to be a complete [...]

Just made an offer on a cute little house in West Seattle. I’m excited, because the price is reasonable and it is approximately the same commute distance to/from downtown Seattle. It’s the best house we’ve looked at, and it doesn’t appear to have anything “wrong” with it — at least, without an inspection. That’s up [...]

So I’ve finally decided to buy a house. Well, I’ve decided to borrow enough money from the credit union to buy a house, in any case. If you’re looking, I’ve found Windermere’s PropertyPoint application very appealing. I can use it from work, even, because it isn’t Java or Flash. I probably won’t be using them [...]