Decluttering the Apartment
Last night, I made a deal with myself that I’d get rid of five things in my living room. You see, despite my best efforts, I still have a lot of stuff lying around that I haven’t used in years, and every once in a while I set a little goal like this to help [...]
Can we really do this? Yes, we can, and the Michael Jordans will come with.
“OK, if the mortgage rate comes in at 3.5% on a $250,000 home, even with taxes and insurance, that would be totally doable, right? ” I asked, then reconsidered. “But if the rate is closer to 6%, it would be tight. Definitely not doable for 6% at $300,000.” “Wait, which calculator are you using?” asked [...]
Sunday Funday with Open Houses
And so it begins. We spent this afternoon looking at open houses in the area. Despite my attempts to understand the buying a home process, it’s still quite foggy to me. So while I’m working to get educated on the process, I’ve also been working on understanding the inventory. Today was quite interesting, as there [...]
Decisions, Decisions
In this limbo life, I vacillate between wanting desperately to move on to the next stage in my life, and being perfectly excited about the possibilities of a life less roadmapped. Some days, I find myself browsing prices of housing close to home. Other days, I enthusiastically browse positions for me in markets where man-friend [...]
The heat is … off?
We’ve had a ridiculously mild winter here in Chicago. It doesn’t even seem real; January sunny days in the 40′s are simply unheard of in this region. We’re all just walking around in big jackets, sweating, waiting for the Arctic Blasts to move in. And people aren’t the only ones shocked by the weather … birds [...]
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