This should be completely surprising to absolutely no one at this point but I am once again behind on updating and commenting and the like. I swear I start every post with this sentence. However! On Monday, I will be all moved into my condo instead of living between two places and having to try to read my friends page on my blackberry and then ( Read more... )

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So I priced out a Brazilian Cherry hardwood floor for my new place. And then I cried. $3,000! Or more! I have enough to do it, probably, but that's not going to leave much left over. I refuse to do Pergo though ( Read more... )

OMG BIBIS I HAVE A CONDO!!!!!!!

Have a look. And another.

Mine, mine, all mine!

Well, when I close on September 11th, anyway!

So I withdrew my offer. The people were just way too shady. And also crazy ( Read more... )

This buying a condo thing is giving me an ulcer. Or that could be from the 14 cups of coffee I've been drinking a day ( Read more... )

Scratch that ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Tom and I went to look at more condos. Since SR is out of town, we just followed her little schedule but even though Tom now has a car, he didn't want to have to try to park on Sheridan so we basically walked something like 20 blocks and saw eight units. Of course, we were late to every appointment and probably smelled like we just ran a ( Read more... )

So I'm trying to fill out all this mortgage paperwork and I get to this question:

Need to confirm. AmEx account opened in 1976 but holder was born in 1980?!Yes, indeed. I actually traveled back in time to when my parents first got married and opened an AmEx card in the hopes of one day confusing creditors everywhere. No, actually, I used to be a ( Read more... )

Went to see something like 5 condos on Saturday. The results:

• The one I mentioned in my last post is actually in foreclosure now so that's a bust. Plus it was way smaller than it looked in pictures. Like way, way smaller.
  
• Another one was filthy with all the cabinets hung wrong and cracks all over the place. It's tenant occupied too so that was ( Read more... )