Dear Sir: We Are Cancelling Your Homeowner’s Insurance

10Apr07

That’s the letter I got from my insurance company on Friday. Well, not those exact words, but that’s the gist of it. As of April 21, my house is uninsured, unless I do something about it. They say my roof is damaged. More specifically, they say it is “clawed.” I happened to have come home [...]

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I’m a Homeowner!

01Mar07

Well, closing actually happened (it looked like it wasn’t going to happen for a while). I’m now a homeowner. After the settlement, I spent the rest of today getting the living room ready to paint and doing a few other things around the house. The fridge was delivered successfully, though it just barely fit through [...]

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The One In Which the Deal Almost Falls Through

28Feb07

Sometimes you and all your people (brokers, agents and lawyers, oh my!) can do everything in your power to make sure everything goes smoothly, and something still goes wrong. In this case, the problem centered around the seller. We were scheduled to close today at 1, but at the end of the transaction, the seller [...]

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