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We’re committed!

Or maybe we should be… It’s only a faxed copy, but sitting in my hot little hands is the final commitment letter from the Mortgage Company That Wants To Remain Unnamed. We already had what must have amounted to a fake commitment letter, which we signed,...

Blogging Unbelievable!

bLINKing unbelievable too I happened to be scanning the log of hits to this little blog when I came upon a hit from beacon.blogs.com. I checked it out and discovered that some guy in Beacon has added me as a link on his blog. (He writes about what’s going on...

Where Insanity Bleeds to Common Sense: Part III

Location, Location, Location… There are few real estate axioms truer—besides, perhaps, those relating to the industry’s use of hyperbole—than the one which states that location is everything. Place the finest house you can imagine, trimmed...

They Come,They See, They Cash Us Out

At least we hope they do! Wants to remain unnamed Mortgage came by today to have a look at our property, take some pictures and have a look at the two dozen or so houses that are going up all around us. Next? A meeting on Monday (shake the 8-ball… turn it...

Just Another Manic Monday

Nothing’s concrete (yet) Yeah, I’m posting my brains out today… Just a quick note: While the current plan is to build our house in the normal fashion—stick framed, the usual insulation, wallboard, yadda, yadda—we are also considering,...

Sea of Cortez

Where I Wish I Was This is quite a bit off topic, but it’s important nonetheless. (And this is a weblog, which means that I’m allowed to publish whatever whim strikes my fancy, right?) During the second week of March, March 11th to be exact, a New York...