Entering into county fair competitions can lead to some very strange places. On a whim I checked out the website for our county fair on a Thursday morning. I thought it might be fun to go that weekend, so I clicked around to see what was interesting. After the usual pictures of rides, midway games…
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Episode 4: It was supposed to get less weird when we found a house! OR If you can’t be a good example, be a horrible warning. We found a house! Hallelujah! Life can start happening again! Oh, wait, this reality is just as bizarre as house hunting. At least it’s less time consuming… that’s something…
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Episode 3.5 – Fixing all the things. Wherein our heroes discover that a dead rat is an upgrade, lonely boards cry dry rot tears and daisies are awfully cute. As our final act of home-ownership, we needed to fix the things the inspector found on our house. We negotiated away the ones we thought were…
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Episode 3: Where’s the guy behind the curtain, and why is he so angry? The goal of this house sell/buy game is to use the equity from our house to buy something that suits our lives a little better. We would like to go from 1100 square feet to 1800-ish square feet and have 2…
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Episode 2: Portland’s Housing discard bin Our realtor is a very kind, very patient woman. She’s been doing this a while, so she didn’t even hesitate: she told us there was lots of time, she’ll help us find the perfect house and she’s never had a client be homeless because there wasn’t enough time to…
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Episode 1: It’s not an adventure yet. Adventures are what you call it when the experience is over and you’re resting comfortably at home with a cold drink by a roaring fire. It’s not an adventure yet. Between getting our house ready for sale, selling it and now hunting for a new house, I feel…
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