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Our First Place

August 28, 2008

Today at 2:30 PM we will be closing on our new house. We may not have been chosen to be on TV, but there was plenty of drama anyway.
Our story really began in November of 2007, when we first started looking for a house. And by “looking for a house” I mean “Carrie started looking [...]

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House update

August 21, 2008

I’m really tired right now and did not have a great day (car died on the Eisenhower and Scout and I had to wait for a tow truck by the side of the road) but I did want to let you all know that:
1) We have been completely approved for our loan (and a quarter [...]

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Boom shaka laka BOOM BOOM

August 5, 2008

No Parking
Originally uploaded by Matt Stratton.
In case you didn’t notice, there was a big honkin’ storm last night. Carrie, Scout, and I actually ended up down in the basement for about 20 minutes when we heard the tornado sirens go off (especially when I read in the NWS alert that “the tornado” would [...]

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A decision has been made

July 28, 2008

House-hunting is (almost) officially over. Last week we made an offer on the Blackhawk House, and it was accepted on Sunday. Today we met with our realtor to sign some more paperwork and pony up the earnest money. We’re still lender-shopping (although we have to officially apply for our loan by next Tuesday) and the [...]

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And that changes EVERYTHING…

July 22, 2008

So you remember last week when I posted about the two houses we were trying to choose between? And how I said we had a lot of thinking to do? And, I can’t stress this enough, that we were choosing between those two houses?
I was full of it. Because we have found a THIRD house. [...]

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House Hunting Updates

April 14, 2008

House hunting continues…On Saturday we looked at eight houses in the Winfield, Wheaton, and Glen Ellyn on Saturday. Of the 8, there were only two that we are putting “on the list” for consideration. Our main contenders right now are the Blue House (Winfield), the Marion House (Wheaton), and the Park House (Glen Ellyn). With [...]

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