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 [...]
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 [...]
Allow me to begin with a quote from the The Hunger Games wiki: "The Gamemakers' job is to make the annual Hunger Games as spectacular, bloody, frightening and entertaining as possible. When the Head Gamemaker feels that the Games are becoming boring, they will introduce some new element such as a forest fire or tsunami or [...]
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