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it’s been a busy few weeks! we’ve spent every weekend at casa brookside, slowly and steadily making progress on the yard cleanup. the back section of the fence is now down, and we’ve fixed a few other sections of it like the gate scraping the ground and some gaps near the driveway. we’ve cut down…

this weekend was a busy one! we got to the house friday night and brought some overnight gear: an air mattress, food for the dogs, food for ourselves, and our toothbrushes. once we got everything reasonably set up, we headed across the street for a beer, then walked downtown to meet up with some friends.…

i spent yesterday cleaning the interior of each window, mirror, and appliance. i was hoping to get there with a little bit of daylight so i could work on the yard, but it didn’t end up happening. mostly because we were hungry and made pizza immediately upon arrival. corey spent his time checking, replacing, and…

yesterday, we had breakfast at the coffee shop across the street, followed by the final walk-through, followed by the closing. the closing itself was uneventful, and it only took about 15-30 minutes. by the end, i’d mostly forgotten how to sign my name. the lawyer assured me the documents would still be accepted. once we…

went on a lil’ ride around the neighborhood last evening after dark. even though we’re kind of at the bottom of a hill at the new place, it’s a gentle hill and i didn’t feel like i was huffing and puffing too much getting up it. the bike shop and few other little shops and restaurants are…

the seller agreed to pay for both the handyman work and the foundation work! our due diligence ended on yesterday (the 15th), and we are still on track to close on the 25th. there’s now a laundry list of things we’d like to do with the house, and we can start really keeping an eye out for…

the structural engineer came out and looked at the foundation today. the good news is that it is fixable, and it won’t be out of our budget to do so; there is no bad news! the plan is to 1) move the water heater, 2) redo the supports, 3) add more dirt and a retaining…

met with the handyman today. definitely lots of things to fix up, and he seemed to think that the fence needed to be totally redone… but we could also just patch it if we really wanted to. floors are about what we expected. we’ll probably refinish the front deck while we’re at it just to…

the loan application has gone off to the underwriters, and the appriasal came back about as expected. some things we found during the inspection: all-in-all, nothing that’s making us think that we should walk away. we do plan to ask for some allowance for some of the major things. plans room plan upstairs, all our…