So we did it, we finally got solar panels on our roof! It took about a year and a lot of headaches and back and forth, but now it’s been a couple of months and our electric bills are, SWEEEEEEE...
https://sowerebuyingahouse.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/is-it-worth-it-to-invest-in-solar-panels/
Last year, I started hosting a weekly internet radio show on personal finance (I’m a financial planner and owner of Brunch & Budget in my other life) on Bondfire Radio, a station that broadcast...
https://sowerebuyingahouse.wordpress.com/2015/08/29/if-you-want-the-one-hour-version-of-the-story/
The new Brownstoner article about our continuing saga with home renovations is up! You can read it here and see all the pretty pictures: http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2014/09/bushwick-reno-fro...
Hey friends! Exciting news! I will actually be taking my house updates to Brownstoner once per month. If you don’t know about them already and you’re househunting or doing renovations, you s...
We actually got to take this sign down weeks ago: The sign off inspector came a day early and surprised my boyfriend. He walked in and said, hmm, it’s a small house, huh? He continued to walk t...
https://sowerebuyingahouse.wordpress.com/2014/01/04/the-end-mostly/
The worst part about this whole thing is neither of us are handy in the least (one of us is learning though (totally not me)) and have never had to turn on a boiler before or really know what a p...
As soon as one thing ends, another pops up, right? The good news is the walls are patched up and the electrician holes are virtually undetectable. The bad news is that the electrician literally s...
Before we could really start decorating the house, we patiently waited over a month for the electrician to get back to us on when he was going to fix our violations. First excuse – he didn’t ...
It was bad, really bad. I mean, I don’t think we will be getting electrocuted any time soon (knock on wood), but in terms of passing an inspection, no matter how many times the inspector could ...
So now that its been over a year since we closed on the house (so crazy!), we can finally refinance our mortgage (the reason we were told we should wait a year is so we could get the house reappr...
https://sowerebuyingahouse.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/adventures-in-refinancing/