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The Home Inspection

June 26, 2009 by Leave a Comment
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Whew! Our home inspection is over and it went really well! Of course there is a laundry list of things we need to repair, but nothing major (or too expensive). So now we really are just steps away from buying our first home! Because this house was built in 1934 and is mostly wood, I […]

Find out how Heather's home inspection went!
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Offer Accepted!

June 18, 2009 by Leave a Comment
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So much can happen in one week! The bank countered our last offer and after a little more negotiation we all agreed to the terms. (yay!) The only problem is that the bank would only give us a verbal commitment. Apparently this is very common from the bank owned homes, so we readily accepted. After […]

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The Hunt for our First Home In Orlando

May 29, 2009 by Leave a Comment
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We finally sat down with Jose and Claudia and went over what we are looking for in our first home. Like many first time home-buyers in the Orlando area, we were under the impression that with so many homes on the market, the process would be relatively easy. Wrong. Because we want to close on […]

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