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House, Planners, Knees and Blog

March 12, 2016Jordan

One of these days, I’ll get around to one post dedicated to a certain topic. But since everything seems to be happening at the same time, I at least wanted to get in another update post for you all. Here… Continue Reading →

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Update: Inspections of the Home + Knee

February 23, 2016Jordan 4 Comments

Hi all! Just a quick check in during a CRAZY couple of weeks. Our home inspection was yesterday, and I’m happy to say that there were NO major concerns at the time of inspection! There were several minor things, but… Continue Reading →

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Whirlwind

February 20, 2016Jordan 2 Comments

So… we bought a house. Shocking, right?! These last two days have been a whirlwind, to say the least. Here’s how it went down: Wednesday, February 17 9:33 a.m. Received an email that a home matching our search parameters had… Continue Reading →

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Emotional Rollercoaster

February 18, 2016Jordan 2 Comments

Ahhhhh, now this is more like the house hunting I’m used to. I mentioned last week that we found one that might be “the one.” We decided Tuesday night that  we did want to put an offer in, so I… Continue Reading →

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House Hunt 2.0

February 14, 2016Jordan 3 Comments

“I just wish we could go back to the excitement, to the rush of buying our first place together. Now all we feel is exhaustion and defeat. Like I have said repeatedly, we knew this wouldn’t be easy. We knew… Continue Reading →

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This is Fightclub

November 10, 2010Jordan

I have not been ignoring the blog, I promise. There is stuff going on with our house hunt, but I am not allowed to talk about it quite yet. As soon as I know, you’ll know.

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Find it yet?

November 3, 2010Jordan

We are still waiting to hear back from the appraiser. Our Realtor e-mailed last night and said they were meeting out there this morning– hopefully this time he can find the crawlspace entrance. The other big issue we need to… Continue Reading →

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Attorney to the rescue

November 2, 2010Jordan

Wow. I feel like we have officially entered the land of stupid. It all started last night… Brian got a call from our lawyer asking how we want to proceed with the property, specifically the request for a second extension.… Continue Reading →

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Losing hope

November 1, 2010Jordan

This sucks. I really can’t think of any other way to put it. Or at least any other way that is blog-friendly. I just wish we could go back to the excitement, to the rush of buying our first place… Continue Reading →

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A place to sleep

October 29, 2010Jordan

I started realizing the other day that the longer we wait to move into whatever house we end up in, the longer I am sleeping on a futon in my childhood bedroom. As much as I like reminiscing, my back… Continue Reading →

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Hi! I’m Jordan. My current project is raising a tiny human. I’m also a runner/cyclist and a wife, a Des Moines import and a marketer. I love all things paper/planning/organizing and can typically be found on the bike trails or painting/renovating our first home – a 1939 ranch we call 2314.

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