tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46719357423507026832012-02-10T10:06:59.341-06:00Kerriellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17869147958235965863noreply@blogger.comBlogger301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671935742350702683.post-70022286811983492622007-06-29T11:48:00.000-06:002007-06-29T12:50:27.591-06:00

First and foremost, I would like to thank Schnapps from http://redschnapper.blogspot.com/ , and Akubi from http://blogaboutablogaboutablogabout.blogspot.com/2007_06_17_archive.html for mentioning my Casey post on their websites. I would also like to thank NoDebtWhatSoEver at http://www.caseypedia.com/wiki/Main_Page for creating and maintaining CaseyPedia and once again Akubi for posting the page.

Kerriellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17869147958235965863noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671935742350702683.post-52740840482938064992007-06-23T09:54:00.000-06:002007-06-23T11:54:12.839-06:00

I know the focus of this blog is about my adventures into home ownership/ remodeling but since being let go from my job I have actually taken the time to get somewhat caught up on the Serin Saga. I promise a return to the normal boring posts of my own little saga but I would like to give my opinion of this whole mess.Am I a hater? You betcha. Casey has been totally unrepentant in the fact that he

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I am really sorry I haven't posted anything new in so long. Losing my job totally took the wind out of my sails. I have been so down about it I haven't done much of anything the last week. I really need to get out of this funk and get back to being productive.I don't think I am going to try to get another job anytime soon though for a couple of reasons. First, I HATE looking for a job. With

Kerriellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17869147958235965863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671935742350702683.post-78003958869688817222007-06-12T18:18:00.000-06:002007-06-12T19:08:41.804-06:00

I was so upset Saturday. Hubby went to rehook up the plumbing under the sink where the jerk had worked and he had torn up all the plumbing. He had even cracked one of the pipes in half! Hubby is NOT a fighter. He hates to make waves or stand up for himself. Me on the other hand, I take awhile to get there but once you piss me off, watch out!So J. just went out and got the parts to fix the

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I am so angry right now I can't even enjoy my new bathroom counter tops. The guy that came out and did the measurement and pre-inspection was awesome! He was friendly, patient with my seemingly endless questions, and thorough.The guys that just installed my counter tops on the other hand.... Rude, impatient, and awful.They came in and barely even muttered a hello, grunted directions to their work

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My son woke me up this morning to tell me that someone was washing clothes in our garage. When I went to check it out I found that the hot water hose to the washer had burst and had been spraying water all over our garage, God only knows how long. EVERYTHING was soaked. Luckily, my hubby had gotten a lot of the garage cleaned out last Friday but still there was all of our holiday decorations,

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Well, we are finally all moved in. We finished up with the storage last Monday and turned in the keys to the apartment on Wednesday. Today the cable guy came and got us back into the 21st century. We still don't have the good computer fixed but we do still have our crappy old one so at least I can still surf and blog. Just no pics. I am thinking of uploading them to my computer at work though

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I am really sorry I haven't posted in so long. Friday before last our apartment got hit with a major power surge and even though we had a power surge protector on our computer it still got zapped and now we don't have a computer until we can have it fixed (hopefully).Other than that things have been extremely busy. The paint party went fairly well. We didn't get nearly as much accomplished as

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I am so sorry I haven't blogged in almost a week. Things have been crazy busy with me trying to get the house whipped into shape for the paint party this Saturday. I have finished painting the ceilings, got the walls washed, spackled and sanded, got the living room and dining room primed, and as a Mother's Day gift to myself I splurged by wasting time painting my living room. I still have to

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I have been promising pictures of my progress so here they are: First some pics of the difference between what the kitchen looked like before a good scrubbing and after. We just couldn'tbelieve how huge just washing things downwould be.This was the color of the front door and this is the color of it now. Still needs one more coat of paint but it's been too rainy to try and get that last coat on.

Kerriellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17869147958235965863noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671935742350702683.post-22240269913431107832007-05-07T20:05:00.000-06:002008-12-11T06:37:32.101-06:00

Wow! This was very unexpected. My mom and I went over to Furniture Factory Outlet this evening after work and I found this sofa and loveseat that I just fell in love with for our living room. We are pretty broke right now with the house and imminent move so I was really just window shopping. I was shocked when my mom whipped out her checkbook. As soon as we get moved in and settled I am going to

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Wow! I got so much done today. Especially with my mother-in-law coming in to town to help. It was so wonderful. I feel like Casey when he manages to get in a wheat grass shot, starbucks, AND a nap all in one day! LOLFirst, my mother-in-law got there about 9 a.m. this morning and she immediately started helping me prep the other rooms while I started in the dining room getting the ceiling primed.

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The last couple of days have been so frustrating. I am so new to everything that I am finding out quickly how very little I know about anything. I keep making stupid mistakes that's costing us time and money and I am completely overwhelmed by all the work to be done in such a short amount of time.You would think painting ceilings would be a no brainer but it's much more time consuming than I

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I went over today to start painting the ceilings. Wow, what a fiasco that was! I am so tired I really just want to go to bed but I really want to post today's activities while it's fresh on my mind (though I doubt i will ever forget today! lol) My step-dad was going to let me borrow his paint sprayer since the ceilings are that blown crap but it turned out that his wasn't intended for use with

Kerriellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17869147958235965863noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671935742350702683.post-56077935989890928372007-05-01T16:05:00.000-06:002008-12-11T06:37:33.110-06:00

Pics: 1) Guest bedroom2) Main bathroom3) Back Bathroom4) Daughters Bathroom5) Back Deck

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More Pics:1) Son's bedroom2) 2nd Kitchen3)J.'s Hobby room4) Daughter'sroom5) Our bedroom

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We closed on the house today at noon. Of course the seller's realtor was really late and we ended up waiting on him but who cares (or as Casey would say, "it's all good"). We only have 30 years to go and we own a house! Yippee!! LOLOk pics. I am still getting the hang of this so bear with me. Thanks to sprezzatura by the way for explaining how to get them on the blog. I think I am going to have

Kerriellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17869147958235965863noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671935742350702683.post-15263571631591834702007-04-30T12:31:00.000-06:002007-04-30T15:27:47.248-06:00

Natalie just called back. The VA Appraiser is being a pain. It's not that the work wasn't done to the house to meet standards. He just doesn't like the way it was done. Natalie is on the phone with him now fighting it out and will call me back. I will update this post as I get news.LOL looks like we will get that extra month before our payments start after all. I am trying not to be super

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Sorry no new posts for awhile. Things have been pretty crazy around here. My aunt/best friend got married this weekend and I was really busy with that, especially since both my kids were part of the wedding party.We are set to close at 4:00 p.m. this afternoon but it's still a toss up whether it will happen today or not. Personally I hope we don't close today. Mat said if we close tomorrow that

Kerriellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17869147958235965863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671935742350702683.post-81908608618181486352007-04-25T03:34:00.000-06:002007-04-25T04:52:04.062-06:00

Well, where to start? I guess with the latest on the Inspector/Contractor situation. Eddie still hasn't gotten the bond situation taken care of but not because of lack of trying. However, as much as we like him and want him to be the one to do the work we are running out of time here. Our close date is only 6 days away, including today, so we are going to have to go a different route. Natalie is

Kerriellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17869147958235965863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671935742350702683.post-85632555007890746542007-04-21T09:10:00.001-06:002007-04-21T09:48:08.121-06:00

Ok I just got off the phone with Natalie. The problem isn't that Eddie isn't licenced. He had a situation with getting his Workman's comp and liability insurance straightened out. He sent in the payment as of the end of March but never got the appropriate paperwork back to show that he is in fact bonded.Apparently he just hasn't taken the time to get everything worked out yet. Natalie talked

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Sorry double posted somehow.

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Well supposedly now the reason the sellers won't sign off on the deal so we can get this done and close on time is because they found out that our guy that was going to do the repairs isn't licenced which I don't understand. Natalie is trying to get this mess straightened out right now, hopefully it was a misunderstanding on the sellers part and not Natalie's mistake. We have been relying

Kerriellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17869147958235965863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671935742350702683.post-74640385958834257812007-04-19T21:11:00.000-06:002007-04-19T21:36:51.762-06:00

The seller finally sent back the paperwork today but I don't know how I feel about this new development. On top of us raising the sales price on the house $600 to help with the repairs the VA is requiring they wanted $825 more in earnest money in addition to the $500 we already put down. The estimate for the repairs is $1325.To make matters worse, the way their realtor worded the new codicil to

Kerriellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17869147958235965863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671935742350702683.post-88154275496416844862007-04-18T21:35:00.000-06:002007-04-18T21:59:40.525-06:00

We love the house, it is easily within our price range, and is in the school district we want our children to grow up in. However, since I discovered the fact that we were on the edge of a housing crisis the like our country has never seen back in September when I stumbled on the Casey Serin story in USA Today I have been concerned about buying a home.We aren't investors. We aren't out to get

Kerriellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17869147958235965863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671935742350702683.post-21199794169041013872007-04-18T08:38:00.000-06:002007-04-18T10:02:16.098-06:00

I talked to Natalie this morning. The seller's realtor finally called her this morning on her way to work. He said that the sellers thought everything sounded fine but that they would be in tomorrow afternoon to look everything over and sign the addendum. She also asked him if the sellers would be adverse to using the guy we used for our inspections and the updated cost estimate to do the work.

Kerriellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17869147958235965863noreply@blogger.com86tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671935742350702683.post-61553403601900816352007-04-17T01:20:00.000-06:002007-04-17T02:02:53.868-06:00

Well, first off the news about the house. I talked to Natalie today and she still hadn't heard anything from the seller's realtor but we did discuss the details of the addendum to the contract, the updated estimate, and the letter from the VA Appraiser approving the removal of the rear hot water heater and installation of a tankless one in more depth than we did on Friday. With the mortgage

Kerriellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17869147958235965863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671935742350702683.post-46831704765081794992007-04-15T09:24:00.000-06:002007-04-15T10:13:43.667-06:00

First off, still no news from Natalie about whether or not the Seller's agent has spoken to them about the VA Appraisal.We are really having a problem with the Seller's agent. I have never seen anything like this. When we sent him the original offer he blew off telling the seller's he had even received it until the next evening because he was too busy showing the house to other people. Why would

Kerriellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17869147958235965863noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671935742350702683.post-27575818222708791082007-04-14T08:35:00.000-06:002007-04-14T10:55:54.825-06:00

So we have a contract. What now? Well to start with we wanted the home inspected thoroughly for our own edification, even though the sale was for an as is home, we wanted to know what we were looking at. Then we had no idea how long the VA was going to take to get their Appraisal done. And to top it off it was time for me to start shopping home insurance.As soon as we sent back the counter

Kerriellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17869147958235965863noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671935742350702683.post-62524293555288709422007-04-07T17:24:00.000-06:002007-04-14T07:04:30.063-06:00

Hello, and good morning,This is my first ever blog entry so please be patient. Hopefully I will get better as time goes by.About a 2 weeks ago J. was at work going over the homes section of the newspaper when his friend/boss walked by and mentioned that he and his wife were selling his mother-in-law'shome and that we should come by and check it out.When he came home and told me about it I was

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