by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 25, 2004 | HousePosts
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,...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 22, 2004 | Uncategorized
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...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 21, 2004 | Commentary
Location, Location, Location… There are few real estate axioms truerâ€â€besides, perhaps, those relating to the industry’s use of hyperboleâ€â€than the one which states that location is everything. Place the finest house you can imagine, trimmed...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 20, 2004 | HousePosts
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...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 16, 2004 | HousePosts
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 fashionâ€â€stick framed, the usual insulation, wallboard, yadda, yaddaâ€â€we are also considering,...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 16, 2004 | Commentary
It’s a small, small (smaller than I thought!) world Size can be a relative thing; what’s small to one person can be large to another. The owner of a 10,000 square foot house would probably refer to a 3000 square foot house as a cottage while the owner of...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 16, 2004 | Uncategorized
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...