I feel like this is rapidly becoming the place that I go to write whiny posts, so before I get into all of today's whining, I wanted to say how much everyone's kindness and support has meant to us over the past year. It's been a very, very challenging year and your notes and words of support and encouragement have kept us going. So much so that it ( Read more... )

We lost the buyers on our house. They rescinded their offer.

City Council approved Ordinance 1248 at last night's meeting, which means that our application for a license to rent our house in East Lansing was rejected ( Read more... )

As of today, the people who had put an offer on our house have rescinded the offer. They grew tired of waiting for the bank to make a decision on our short sale application ( Read more... )

Here's the letter we submitted to the City Council. It's long, but we figured that they were ruining us financially, they could at least read a letter.

( Letter to City Council )

There is yet another public hearing about the extension of the rental overlay district tomorrow, December 7, at City Hall on Abbott Road. The agenda for the meeting can be found here: http://www.cityofeastlansing.com/Home/ ( Read more... )

This just in, from the Department of DUH, WE COULD HAVE TOLD YOU THAT:Caldwell acknowledged the inevitable delay in foreclosures caused by law enforcement investigations, pending litigation and self-imposed slowdowns by lenders, saying those actions "may have both immediate and longer-term consequences ( Read more... )

Why is it that it takes so long to save money and it takes so little time for that savings to disappear ( Read more... )

We knew we were in trouble with trying to sell our house here in MI. We've worked with a real estate agent and worked up the Michigan Sellers Net Equity worksheet to find out just how bad things are for us. The answer is "pretty bad." Or, so we thought at the time ( Read more... )

A bunch of people already know about this, and I actually posted something about it on Facebook (via Twitter) on the day that I told my staff a couple of weeks ago. But of course I posted too soon (premature twitteration?) because Seaves hadn't really talked things over with her boss or other people she works with, some of whom are friends of mine ( Read more... )