An update of sorts

[kawaiikiki]

My dad's kitten Mish-Mish spent most of last week with us. It was fun to have a cute kitten around, but it was also annoying because he was a nuisance! The cats weren't particularly happy about it either. Shiva was the most annoyed and didn't want to have anything with humans or cats that week. As soon as Mish-Mish had left it was a different story

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[tiffanyharvey]

So cute! Indy was livid when my mom brought over her kitten. I can't imagine a whole week!

And... a house?

[kawaiikiki]

Yes . . . a house! The market is crazy great right now. We've paid off a lot of debt and have some savings, so it seems a good move right now. I've made a list of several dozen that I am ready to look at in just our nearby area. I've started making arrangements with the bank and I'm just waiting for the realtor to call. She is also helping my sister and her husband too. We are ready to take the plunge! I'm so ready that I want to start packing :P

[tiffanyharvey]

That is so awesome! As nice as our apartment is, I can't wait to live somewhere where I'm allowed to paint. And there are no people living above us ;)

If we hadn't had to move earlier this year we might have started looking this summer, but I'd like to stay at least another year before packing everything again! (And it ended up costing us about $1000, with all of the deposits and down-payments and such) It will be rough with Justin having to pay for classes, but he's going to be doing that for a looonnng time still.

[kawaiikiki]

That is my only problem right now, paying for classes. I have enough to pay for them, but want to use that for towards the down payment. I'm settling on loans because I can't let the low house prices, huge selection, and interest rate pass by. I still owe quite a bit in student loans anyway, what's a bit more.

[tiffanyharvey]

Is it pretty easy to get student loans right now? The school didn't give Justin any information on what he could get (they usually do), and he hasn't looked into them any further, he assumed they would be pretty hard to get any loan with the bank problems.

He has been paying for them so far, but the money was about to run out. Luckily he got a random bonus that will pay for next semester, and he'll be paying ahead so that he'll have enough later on.

[kawaiikiki]

I was offered a direct loan in the summer, but didn't take it. I'm just waiting on the school to let me know. I'm assuming that it should be easy to get one through the government. Did he fill out his FAFSA?

[tiffanyharvey]

He says he did fill one out, but since he started classes in the summer it was very late, so this year he's going to make sure to do it early.

[kawaiikiki]

If he applied in summer that was for the 2007-2008 school year. He can update his FAFSA online and try to still get something for this semester. It's cutting it close though.