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The new windows are awesome! The installer just finished up the job today. We also had a new storm door installed on the front of the house and we finally got a locking entry door installed on the garage. We loved our old house but it just wasn’t big enough; with these changes we’re slowly starting to transform the new house into a house similar to our old one. It takes time though; looks like the backyard will be a project on the books for next year.

The new windows have arrived and will be installed this following Monday.  I doubt they’re going to get it all done in a single day but hopefully they’ll be able to finish up the following day.  I can’t wait to finally be able to open the windows in our house without scraping metal, stuck screens, and smashed fingers!

It’s official: we’re getting new windows! We had Robert Viviano from Viviano Door & Windows come out and give us a quote last week and we signed the paperwork a few days ago. Viviano did the windows in our previous house and we loved them. Vivano’s installers did a great job last time. Actually, the same installers will be

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At long last we’ve finally moved into our new place. We signed our paperwork on Friday of last week and the movers moved just about all of our stuff that day. We used Graebel Van Lines. These guys weren’t cheap but they did an excellent job. You get what you pay for, really, and the moving industry is full of crooks. It took them nine hours to move our stuff and I didn’t see these guys taking too many breaks along the way. Our agent was Jim Potterfield and he was actually our agent when we bought our last house. Our loan broker was Kenny Rosenthal (also the same as the last time). I recommend all these …read more »

We’re really now just playing a waiting game; all offers have been accepted and all paperwork has been signed for both houses. We’ll be moving in two weeks and I’m sure moving day will be upon us before we know it. We had a few surprises with the house we’re buying; for instance, there were high levels of radon in the basement, they did not refinish the bedroom floors, and they did not put doors on the closets upstairs. We’re going to go ahead and take care of the radon problem ourselves; it actually won’t cost that much to do it. The floors don’t look that bad so we’ll probably just pay to refinish those later on. We’re also going to take care of the closet doors upstairs ourselves after we move in. All in all we got a great deal on the house and we’re not really going to have to do much work on it after we move in. That was the whole idea since we already did tons of work to the house we currently live in.

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We had the inspection done today on the new house and there appear to be no show-stopping problems with it. No evidence exists that unusual settling or foundation issues have occurred in the past (or are currently occurring) which is a huge relief. That’s what we were really concerned about; everything else is pretty insignificant in comparison. The crew has made considerable progress …read more »

We were offered a contract on our house this past Sunday. Our house was on the market for only one week so it went faster than any of us imagined. It is a nice house and we really did a lot of work on it so I guess it’s not too surprising. The couple who put the contract on it are so young; it makes me feel old.

So basically now we’re going through inspections, assessments, and the nightmare of paperwork involved in buying and selling houses. Luckily it seems the buyers are reasonable so it hopefully won’t be a painful process. I hope not because we’re going to be …read more »

The contract has been signed by all parties and our house goes on the market Monday. The rehab crew is still finishing up the house on Potomac; we’re hoping that it takes them a while to complete so that it’ll give our house more time to sell. So, if anybody is …read more »

We put an offer on the house on Potomac Thursday night. It’s owned by two partners; we had a signature from one of the partners and we had a verbal agreement by the other as of yesterday. Our agent is supposed to get the signature from him today and then we’ll sign and accept. After that our house goes on the market on Monday and we begin this complicated and nerve-wracking process of selling our house and buying a new house. We’ve only bought one house before this and we’ve never sold a house before. I guess …read more »

We’re putting our house up for sale! A couple weeks ago Traci, Orson, and I were out walking and passed a house that was being rehabbed. We weren’t really in the market but it looked like a good deal. We called the realtor, did a walk through, and loved it. We’re going to put a contract on it ASAP and then …read more »