HouseRat

Photo taken by me, on family property.

I last wrote after our dog passed away, which was end of August (post has since been removed).

Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve written anything long-form.

I probably won’t usually do this… but I wanted to sorta self-bookmark what’s happening with me right now, so I thought I’d turn my ‘now’ update into a post.

Ah, home-ownership: The American Dream, right?

1 So it’s late at night.

I’ve been re-reading my old posts and some of them have me feeling really sheepish.

There’s a raging battle happening over pocket listings again.

Pretend you’re a bank owner who was just served a stack of 400+ mortgage compliance guidelines, rules, and regulations.

UPDATE 10/18/2024: Since I wrote this post, Realtor.com has reinstated the “contingent” option.

For fun, I’m fooling around with the idea of posting the cool, weird, interesting, or inspiring things that I stumbled upon during the past week.

According to the rich pros, I’m supposed to hang onto my income property for the long haul.

Here’s a fact about the final purchase price of any home.

I’m working on a longer post about the purchase and management of the 5-plex we bought last summer but since it isn’t ready, I thought I’d write something totally different- -A public letter to myself.

I recently stumbled upon this awesome little handmade home, coined The Copper Fox Treehouse.

I’ve never photographed or shared any of our home renovation projects before.

If you like geodes, gemstones, fossils, and other cool rocks, you’ve gotta check out this rock wall.

Why blog anonymously?

Last week I ordered Handmade Houses by Richard Olsen.

I just read a story here about a woman who had purchased her first home.

I saw this inspiring new-build in two places: Domino and Emily Henderson’s Blog.

Can we talk about cars for a second?

Photo by Ashford Associates – Discover exterior home design inspiration The not-so-secret secret is out.

I slowly opened the door hollering, “Helen, we are coming in!”

More and more I hear of people who regret buying their house (like here or here).

I don’t like super large refrigerators.

Buying a house is the American Dream- everyone should own a home!

Thinking back to 2012 through 2018, I was on Houzz quite a bit.

This morning I listened to Tim Ferriss and Matt Mullenweg (co-founder of WordPress) on The Tim Ferriss Show, Episode 713.

Kitchens sell houses; right?