Less House

Well, the contract fell through on that place. Too many demands from the sellers, too little willingness to fix, em, safety issues. So off we go again on the looking front!

In other news, we had two showings of our place tonight - it's been on the market since Monday night. :-)

Wish us luck!

More House

Home inspections. I mean, I know this is why you do them, and no house is perfect. But still... I just keep telling myself - part of the process, part of the process, part of the process....

House!

Well, we put in an offer on a house - and it was accepted! :-)

No photos yet - but we're going to do a home inspection on Sunday, so we'll take some then.

If all goes well, by Thanksgiving we should be in our new place!

Vent!

No, no... not that kind of vent. DRYER vents! We had ours cleaned out yesterday - and I strongly advise everyone and anyone who hasn't done this recently to do so. I wasn't home, but Bryan said that the amount of lint the workers pulled out was amazing. (Of course, we have three stories of dryer vent, but still...)

On other fronts, the house search continues. We're headed out to look at about 8 more places this weekend, along with return trips to 2 places we liked from last weekend. I'll try and get some real photos this weekend - stay tuned!

Houses!

What a great weekend! The weather was lovely, and we saw some great houses (that we can actually afford - wow!).

We're headed back out this weekend, and in the meantime, working like crazy to get this place ready to go on the market.

I'll put up some photos of likely contenders soon, but, well... we're having some technical difficulties at the moment.

Deep Breath

Ok. So tell us we're not crazy.

We're looking to sell our condo and buy a single-family home in the Lincoln Square/Roscoe Village area. So we'll likely be closed and moved by Thanksgiving.

We're looking at places Sunday - I'll post some promising pictures then.

Wish us luck!

Rain?

So, I was asking for rain? We got it.

First, Chicago got amazing thunderstorms, that finally broke the heat wave we've been having. Wonderful rain.

Second, our upstairs neighbor's water heater expired on Wednesday. Yep, 10+ gallons of water into our kitchen. It doesn't look like any real damage, thankfully, and she has a new water heater safely installed now.

We're talking to our realtor-friend, though - we're starting to feel cursed in this place!

Finally!

After a month of busy times at work, and intermittent Internet access (no thanks to the lovely company that provides the service, and shall remain nameless), I'm back online!

The big news of the day is the heat - it's been over 97 everyday for what seems like forever now. (I suppose it's only a week or so, but still...) We are supposed to get thunderstorms sometime tomorrow, and that should break the heat. I can't believe I'm hoping for rain!