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House pictures!  Here you go.

Moved!

So Saturday, marked the end of the beginning for our foray into home ownership.  We moved.  It took five hours to move but it was worth it for the first uninterrupted weekend of sleep we’ve gotten in a year.  You see we loved our neighborhood of Old Oakland, all except for the crazy noise where [...]

New Find – Omnivore Books

So during fava bean fest, J and I were following west Coast rebecca to her house and went through Noe Valley (a particularly picturesque and residential part of SF).  Along the way, we saw a sign for Omnivore Books. I had to physically stifle the urge to stop the car and pull over.  A bookstore [...]

Ok Parkway Manor Boyz – It’s ON!

Because the boys in Oakland just bought a house!  Yesterday, J and I went to the title company and signed all the papers.   Tomorrow, our real estate agent will be handing over the keys and the hosue will be ours!  Yes this is the same house we were agonizing over earlier.   On top of being [...]

House Hunting Diaries Part 2

Whew that was a cliffhanger I left you at. So here’s the deal. We put an offer on the house in Berkeley. Someone else put an offer $15,000 higher than ours and they weren’t asking for closing costs. That freed us up to put an offer on the Oakland house.
Because the [...]

Off Topic – The House Hunting Diaries

So I’ve been making offhanded statements about the fact that J and I are trying to buy a house. That is funny because this is seriously THE THING THAT IS SUCKING OUR LIVES. Seriously, not only are we looking at real estate listings every free moment we get, we are watching HGTV 24/7. [...]