The risk with building up to our fifth and final offer is an Arrested Development-style "Her?" skepticism in response to our new house. If you have any doubt upon seeing these photos, you'll just have to trust me when I say that, after a full year of searching, we know we landed a really great house for us. [...]
We’ve reached our penultimate offer, which I thought for sure would be our final offer. I was certain this house was The One. Offer Number 4: Bernard Basement Bar Location: North Park. This house was south east of the property you saw yesterday, and it made a world of difference in how we felt about the [...]
If you're just dropping in: we close on a house this Friday and this week I’m recapping each of the five properties we made an offer on. For other Chicago house hunt posts, check out Offers Number 1 and Number 2. Offer Number 3: Garage By No Bars Location: North Park. North Park is just [...]
Over six months passed between our first offer in November 2014 and our second in May 2015. Very few houses were listed over the winter. Our options were also limited by the dearth of single-family houses on the market and the limited area in which we were searching. Jarrod drives to work in Evanston, the suburb north [...]
If you follow me on Instagram you already know that Jarrod and I found a house! We made offers on five different houses and our fifth offer did the trick. We close on Friday. When we started our house hunt (nearly a year ago), our home-owning friend Michael told us: “Making an offer isn’t like asking someone [...]
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