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And were in the final stretch

Brian — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:06:36 +0000

So were approaching the finish line for the house, All of the electrical has been completed and inspected (another blog entry), were in the process of finalizing our mortgage, the appliances have been ordered, TV and internet have been arranged, We see our lawyer in two weeks and a few days later we close the deal.

Man, talk about a wild ride. Which will be complete when everything is all in the house. Only 4 more weeks, I can’t wait.

So were buying a house (cont) …

Brian — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:54:51 +0000

Now this is what’s happened to me this past week

My Girlfriend and I go view a few homes last weekend and had a gut feeling on one of them. Luckily that house has an open house the following day so we both go and view it again. That’s when we made the decision to put an offer in on it. So we got in touch with our broker and was able to put the paperwork together for that evening as our broker presented the offer. When the home owners counter offered with a few minor changes we were happy to accept.

Within the next two days the home inspection was completed and we were happy with the report. We also had our mortgage approved the following day so we went from Saturday to as I type this on Thursday night doing all of this. And I can’t thank My Girlfriend enough for her help in this as well.

We have a few more things to work out and then everything should be final

So were buying a house …

Brian — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:44:06 +0000

So, my girlfriend and I have made the decision to buy a home. The thing is that we haven’t done something like this before and are going to need alot of help. The first thing we thought of is to shop around and find a reputable lender and then find someone with knowledge of the local real estate and go from there.

More to follow!