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First Time Home-Buying: The Closing and The Keys

I should be almost done with my first time home-buying posts. The title should signify that. I’ll probably still post about the moving though because in that post, I can get nostalgic. Today, I just put away all my homeowner’s documents away, all the documents that I received from that Escrow lady when we signed. [...]

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First Time Home-Buying: The Signing

The Signing process is not the same as the Closing process. I did not know that until we were about to sign. I had this big misconception that the big day, the signing, was the end of the home-buying process, when I will get the keys and be allowed to move-in. So, what I thought [...]

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Movers and Shakers

I am honestly too tired and too busy to blog. We spent almost the entire weekend moving stuff from Ms B and Chef’s old apartment to their new house! I was there when she moved in to the apartment 5 years ago, back when we were young(er) and she was starting a career with this [...]

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First Time Home-Buying: The Walkthrough

The walkthrough was a task made for me. The other day, we had our walkthrough for our new house where, because the house is under warranty for one year, we focused only on the cosmetics. During the walkthrough, I had all the qualities I have on my resume at full-force: thorough, keen attention to detail, [...]

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First Time Home-Buying: The Appraisal and The Floor!

After getting the email from my loan officer early last week the she had ordered the appraisal of the home we intend to purchase, I thought, yes, we’ll know for sure when we’re moving within the week. Well, the week came and went with no news. To make it go faster just in my head, [...]

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First Time Home-Buying: The Paperwork and The Trees

I realized that with a new home where you are directly buying from the builder, it’s not when they accept the offer that you really feel the excitement. Afterall, it’s the builder’s sales agent who gave you the price anyway. It would be up to you to challenge that, in which you risk insulting the [...]

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First Time Home-Buying: The Sign

Keeping things by the book, my husband and I have moved from the honeymoon stage to the next big phase of our relationship: buying a home. We are both first time home-buyers so we know there’s a lot to learn. Thankfully one of our godfathers works in a mortgage bank so we have someone to teach us what this is all about. [...]

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The Learning Price Tag

Two weeks ago, I shelled out $560 for the reservation of my kids’ slots in this private school for the next school year. That’s two.hundred.eighty. dollars each. The tuition fee per child is way more than what I can afford right now. In fact, the tuition fee per child is more than what people who [...]