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 [...]
Of all the houses we've seen, this was the house I had the most immediate emotional response to. Originally listed at $525k, sold for $400k, in a lovely Chicago neighborhood called Peterson Woods. It caught me by surprise because I'm rarely sentimental. I'm also wary of kitsch - I like mid-century design because it's practical and clean-lined [...]
An Open Letter to Matt & Jen Warship: Do you think your realtor could get us a first-time homeowner two-fer-one deal? If so, we'll take this California ranch: 4607 Southwest 16th Street. The real estate pictures are hilariously crummy (three of the shed and none of a bedroom or bathroom?) but I was sold on this [...]
Project Palermo 