Archive for April, 2006
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
For those real estate rehabbers and do it yourselfers I got a credit card application in the mail today that may be of interest. In this era of cashback credit cards nobody should be without cards that offer at least:
1% rebate on everything
5% on gas
5% on groceries
Those cards are ...
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
For the past 8 days I was in Hawaii on vacation and attending a wedding. While I was gone, I closed on SFH#2. The funny thing about new construction is that they give you a closing date and it can't be changed. I talked to Pulte about delaying it one ...
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Saturday, April 15th, 2006
Friday morning I had my pre-closing inspection walk-through of SFH#2. I must say that I was very impressed with the construction quality of this house as compared to SFH#1. SFH#2 is constructed by Pulte.
The biggest issue during my walk-through was that the carpet in the master bedroom and its closet ...
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
I get this nice pre-approved application for Discover today which says 0% APR for life. Of course there is a catch to it. 0% APR is on balance transfers until Nov 2006. However, you can keep extending the 0% APR as long as you make two purchases or cash advances ...
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
I seem to stack posts all in a day and then not post for a few... I need to change that.
Anyway, I'm off to Hawaii next week for a vacation and a wedding. I haven't had a real vacation in a while, which is odd since I'm home all day ...
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
We are past the 10 day inspection period and no problems thus far. I've had an inspector, termite guy and appraiser come through the house during the past week.
The inspection revealed very minor things which I fixed before he left and a few things that I've asked the builder to ...
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
I went to a couple pool places to get quotes on putting in a new pool for SFH#2. I knew that concrete and steel prices have gone up since I put in my last pool (June 2005), but after getting my quotes I realized that prices have gone up alot! ...
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