Posts Tagged ‘bungalow’
you’ve gotta have dirt
Ok, it’s silly not to type with caps. But I like subjects without caps. So I had this 30-ft tall dead tree in my backyard ever since I’ve lived in the house. I didn’t really realize it was dead until after I had made plans to buy this house as-is. The tree [Read More]
Nice try
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Ferns forever, thanks to Google Maps
I just took a look at my home with Google Maps’ Street View. Damn, they’re good. It looks like the image is from August or September, whenever I still had my new Boston ferns healthy. I had lamented that I did not have a photo of them. Thanks to Google, now I [Read More]
0.23%
That’s the percentage of my mortgage loan amount that I’ve paid off after three months. Ah, it’s great to be a homeowner! [Read More]
TB: Swimming in money after the Durham tax revaluations
No, not really. But my disheveled bungalow winds up in the below-average-appreciation column as Durham does their one-every-seven-years housing revaluations. So my tax bill, paltry as it is now, should go down in a year, maybe like $50! 2008 vs. 2001 valuation: +20.7% [Read More]
I want my rake back
I won’t tag this entry with anything tags that will encourage its viewing beyond the sphere of whoever normally reads this blog, whoever that might be. I think I’m somewhat two-faced, and how exactly will become apparent in just a moment. I wouldn’t want [Read More]
TB: 3 weeks after closing, mortgage already sold…WTF?
I just found this blog post on the Googlesphere–Why do Mortgage Lenders/Brokers sell my Mortgage Loan?–so I am not terribly alarmed that a mere three weeks after closing on my house, my mortgage has already been sold. But it does reaffirm the persistent belief [Read More]
TB: 4 days…
Ah, the magical HUD settlement statement is here. Hmm…what’s this? The seller is paying $2K towards my closing costs, so some closing costs are itemized to add up to $2K, including the origination fee for the lender. But why is the origination fee listed in my [Read More]
TB: September 4
I have a new closing date–September 4–but I wouldn’t stake my life on it. It’s been two weeks since I last commented on my home purchase predicament. I didn’t see much of a point in writing any further about the frustration of the limbo that [Read More]
