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The StrawStickStone Mortgage Scenario Analysis Calculator
This is my new favorite entry EVER. Let's Play! I've spent the past week explaining why it's so important to do serious comparison shopping and saving up before you apply for a loan. On Monday we...
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So You Want to Change Your Apartment’s Paint Colors.
PS if you think this looks good, you may want to skip this article. (via uglyhousephotos.com) Do you want to change the colors of your apartment? I encounter a lot of renters who do. Standard issue...
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Let’s Talk about Parking.
Oink if you love Bacon! Guys, I can’t believe I’ve spent nine months writing this blog and haven’t done any posts about parking! Major oversight. Fixing that right now. Today is rental parking day, all...
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Six Homes, One Payment
It’s been a while since I’ve gone and done some real math for you guys. Let’s fix that. It’s easy to look at the sale price of a home and have that be the deciding factor on what sort of house you buy....
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Mistakes on a Plane (or, When Pigs Fly)
Some travel errors could have a far bigger effect on your home purchase than this movie ever did.(image via Wikipedia!) So as my regular readers know, (Hi Mom! Hi Dad!) I recently took a vacation to...
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Resolutions for Chicago Real Estate
So it’s 2013. Funny how that happened. World didn’t end, although for some of us we were wishing it might have done after the New Year’s Eve parties. I’m sure some of you already have resolutions that...
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Apartments: Is Bigger Really Better? (Tenant Version)
I used to work for a theatre company that did most of its work in a very large performance hall. It had 25 rows and stadium seating, and the stage was 25 feet wide and three stories tall. (That’s the...
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Three Little Pigs Get a Windfall (Or, Mortgage Discount Points FTW)
Once upon a time there were three little pigs. (I’m surprised I haven’t done this in the past year.) The pigs have a grand adventure in store for them involving building supplies and poached wolf, but...
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Quality Control Week #1: What Affects Building Quality?
You probably know that there are different grades of quality when it comes to food. The USDA has three different grades for poultry, eight for red meat, and hundreds for fruits and vegetables....
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Quality Control Week #2: Recognizing Low Quality
Hey all! Sorry about the silence last week. Between business and the recent floods in my neighborhood it was absolutely frantic. As always, my clients come first. So when we left off we were talking...
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