New Jersey. Seattle. San Diego. Three outspoken bubble bloggers who started websites in 2004 and 2005 to tell the world not to buy a home during the biggest housing bubble in history, all finally buy homes in their respective markets within nine months of each other. I wouldn’t take it as an economic indicator of…
Tag: first-hand-homebuying
What’s Your Interest in More Homeowner Topics?
In a recent comment thread a few readers expressed interest in occasional posts on some more homeowner-focused topics, including finishing the “knife catcher” series of posts I began back in June about my personal homebuying experience (yes, that’s my home pictured at right behind Crystal, the Seattle Bubble Mascot). Here are some of the potential…
Knife-Catcher: The Tour, Offer, Tour Meat Grinder
[Note: This is part of an ongoing series on Tim’s personal homebuying experience.] I thought I would continue the Knife-Catcher series by focusing a little more on our specific home selection process. Here are the basic steps we went through when looking for a home: Look at listings online. Narrow list, tour homes. Either: Eliminated…
Knife-Catcher: The Tim’s Short Sale Buying Experience
A number of people have expressed interest in hearing more about our process in successfully closing on a short sale. So, let’s just dive right in. In general we had been avoiding short sales like the plague, since we wanted to actually buy a home, not sit in a perpetual pending state for months waiting…
Knife-Catcher: How did The Tim Pick Everett?
One of the questions I’ve seen a few people ask about my home search is something to the effect of “how did you decide to buy in Everett?” In today’s post I’ll answer the question a little more broadly by describing our general method for deciding what was important to us, what wasn’t, and how…