Escrow

Well, our house was in escrow, then it wasn’t (buyers backed out), now it will be again Monday (new buyers). That’s my excuse for being negligent re: blogging. That said, I cut almost 20 min off my time from Malibu last year — awesome! I’m...

New Offer

We accepted a new offer tonight — for quite a bit ($14k) more than the offer that was pulled….and the buyers are okay with working with us on us being able to rent back. Awesome! our contingency is of course that everything depends on us successfully...

Buyers backed out….

Who knows if we’ll get our Spanish bungalow. Our buyer backed out. We already have another offer (good) for more than the original (even better) but the timing for when they’d need to move in won’t work for us (bad). Having four cats, one of whom is...

Escrow, work, and training

We’re in escrow in our (new) house and go into escrow tomorrow morning on our (old) house. Between overbooking for the summer and then selling our house, triathlon training has suffered. I do also think not scheduling anything between Breath of Life the end of...

In Escrow

We’re in escrow on our (new) house and will be in escrow on our (old) house starting tomorrow a.m.! On the knitting front: stash diet. Seriously. I have more than enough yarn to knit up some gorgeous socks, scarves, sweaters and various other things for the next...

Spanish Bungalow house search

Where to start? Dave and I have always loved the charm, craftsmanship and liveability of older houses (as well as loathing most post-1960 houses). We really wanted a bungalow of some sort for our first house but there wasn’t anything in our price range in the...