We hit the Jackpot on Craigslist again last week. This time in the form of a dishwasher to round out our set of stainless steel kitchen appliances. We picked up a 3 year old top of the line, Bosch 800 series dishwasher for $400.
The woman we purchased it from was remodeling a 3 [...]
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Tagged: criagslist, dishwasher, electrical wiring, kitchen, plumbing, Real Estate, the condo
I am generally a pretty easy going guy. On the scale of laid back to anal annie, I would rate myself surfer dude. But the last few weeks have turned me into a teeth gritting, knuckle clenching, eye bulging lunatic.
I found this website, Rotten Neighbor the other day and although I don’t think I am [...]
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Tagged: noisy neighbors, rotten neighbor, the condo
I picked up some pretty nice looking louvered doors for the laundry/furnace room a few weekends ago on craigslist. They were a steal at $50 considering my home away from home, Home Depot sells much lower quality doors for around $100, and with this god-for-saken Illinois taxing scheme, it means I saved well over [...]
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Tagged: closet, doors, laundry, Real Estate, the condo
It was a few weeks ago now, but we ended up spending a good 6 hours one Saturday at ABT a local appliance warehouse and picked up an very efficient refrigerator, front loading washer and dryer, as well as a convection gas range/oven.
We spent the first month here with an old refrigerator that was constantly running, [...]
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Tagged: appliances, effcient, energy efficient appliances, energy star, Real Estate, refrigerator, the condo
The little old fridge, and tiny white stove, are finally out of here! I am so glad that I didn’t pay to have our old appliances taken away when we got the new ones delivered. I knew we would be able to get rid of them somehow.
I put them up on Craigslist Friday night, [...]
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Tagged: appliances, kitchen, Real Estate, recycle, refridgerator, stove, the condo
These are a bit old at this point. These photos are from the week before our second closing, when Lauren and I came up to Lunt to install the “Kitchen”. We don’t have as many good photos of this place before we started working on it, these may be our best shot. Big thanks [...]
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Tagged: cabinets, gallery, ikea, kitchen, Real Estate, the condo
So I am jumping the gun a bit, I haven’t even posted about the 4 closing we had and were botched, or that we finally, eventually, almost didn’t, but in the end did close.
I didn’t write about swapping lenders after the original appraisal because we didn’t have a kitchen and no one told us until [...]
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Tagged: kitchen, plumbing, Real Estate, the condo
Over the 4th of July weekend, I was the best man in my best friends wedding.
I already had my hands full, planning one drunken night of debauchery, and two days of fun in the sun back home. I didn’t want to have to deal with all the new responsibilities of purchasing a house on [...]
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Tagged: Real Estate, Real Estate Investing, the condo
So my original offer of 80% ltv was countered with an offer $1,500 lower than the original asking price, on top of asking for an increase to $5,000 earnest money up front payable immediately, this was Monday the 30th. Kinda a slap in the face if you ask me.
So I mulled it over and Tuesday [...]
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Tagged: Real Estate, Real Estate Investing, the condo
Well They got back to us and its not what I was hoping for, but exactly as I expected.
The counter offer was a mere 1.5k less than the asking price, and to top it all off they want a full 5k in earnest money as apposed to the 1k which is traditional. So, a decision [...]
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Tagged: Real Estate, Real Estate Investing, the condo