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It’s Closing Day.  If you did everything right up to this point, you should have no fear.  A few days before closing you should get a final amount due… make sure you have at least this much stashed in your checking account so the check you write doesn’t bounce.  My final costs ended up being [...]

Before you can finally buy the house, you need to get insurance and a lawyer or title agency to handle the closing.  Once again, the best advice I can give for this is to ask friends and family who they have used in the past.Â
My parents have their homeowners’ insurance through Travelers, the same company [...]

Ahh, mortgages.  Few things get a twenty-something more excited than talk of adjustable interest rates, private mortgage insurance, and good faith estimates.
Okay, this stuff is pretty boring, and like you I really couldn’t be bothered with learning the ropes, which could have been a dangerous thing for my finances.  But really, with some common sense and a [...]

I decided to drop the old theme because I was unhappy with some of the layout.  I tried the Orange v2 theme but for some reason it was causing errors all over my admin panel so I had to drop it.  It’s a shame, I really liked that theme.
I settled on the Andreas theme, which [...]

So you’ve got a pretty good idea of the kind of house you want.  The next step, and probably the longest one, is going out and finding it.Â
The place I started was realtor.com, because you can search listings without any obligation to any specific real estate agent.  Their site is very straightforward.  Enter the zip code [...]

Here’s the new single from the Shins’ upcoming album.  I like it a lot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkITsv3Nk6M

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