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There’s a request of my NY-area readers at the end of this, but first, the preamble.
“Life, she is a roller coaster; for every thrilling dip, there is an uphill slog.”
I just made that sagacious little quote up, because it pretty much sums up last week. Long story short, we’ve squashed the Bloomfield house search - [...]
“Pop quiz, hotshot. How much do you want this house?”
Highest and Best. That’s the rules of the game for our bid on the house we want. All offers will go through the listing agent for presentation tomorrow afternoon and the seller will pick the “highest and best” of them, with no counter-offers being made. “Highest” [...]
What a crazy week. We flip-flopped so much on our housing situation, I felt like John Kerry by Sunday night!
Faced with the likelihood of stretching ourselves unacceptably thin to afford a decent house in Bloomfield, we started working on Plan B, an apartment in a Manhattan neighborhood with a good elementary school. Our logic was [...]
