This Must Be the Place

Last night I made chili without a recipe. I didn't even really think about finding one, just threw a bunch of things that seemed right i...

The first major item on the summer checklist has been resolved: We have a new apartment! Signed the lease last night on a lovely place in Me...

This has been one of those periods in which the good things arrived sandwiched between the really unpleasant. It started nearly two weeks ...

First of all, we didn't get the house. Kind of bummed even though we expected it; the place really was just about perfect for us. Seco...

We found another house we like, so are getting all the usual crap sorted out to put in an offer. This one is a total long shot, not expectin...

So, we thought we had an agreement with the sellers about the wiring, but when it was time to write up the P&S, they tried to put someth...

I started typing this post when we were still waiting to find out what would happen. A couple of weeks ago, we went to look at a house in Ma...

Yesterday we did the inspection. It was educational, to say the least, and unfortunately included the news that the heating and hot water sy...

Last night we did the P&S on the house we're trying to buy. The inspection is tomorrow. I can't quite believe this is happening!

Buying a house, I hope! So it's been insane, and quite busy, around our household, and meals have been a little haphazard. I did make a ...

Given our budget and the still-somewhat-inflated prices around here, a lot of what we've been looking at are short sales, places on the ...

I will never figure kids out. Friday night was awful . L brought a cold home from school and gave it to her brother, and he was up I think ...

After a long break due to various vacations interfering with the schedule, this past Saturday we resumed looking for a house, this time in M...

On Saturday we went to Sudbury and met our "facilitators", and then drove around with them to look at three houses. The first one ...

The usual jam-packed weekend. We spent Saturday morning doing house drive-bys in the Tewksbury area, and found some reason to be encouraged,...

I am fortunate enough to live with a man who is frequently and (I think) genuinely complimentary to my cooking. It is fairly rare, however, ...

A tiring and discouraging day yesterday, driving around Framingham to see what our budget will get us by way of a house there. I am less tha...

This on a newly listed 3-bedroom in Dracut: "Sellers will entertain offers between 259,900 and 299,876."

Did someone use a random number generator to come up with the price on this house ? (Link may require a login.)

In today's new housing listing email: "Being sold as-is where is." Given that this is a four-bedroom, two-story Cape-style hou...