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Building a House: What’s the Process? Part 3
FIFTH STEP: Find a New Property Around this point in our plans our realtor let us know that someone else had purchased the property we had been planning on. Oddly enough, we didn’t really mind. It was inconvenient, yes because we had configured our house plans around this property, but it had felt like a…
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Building a House: What’s the Process? Part 2
THIRD STEP: Talk to Our Realtor Our builder, Kevin, has been a family friend of mine since I was 11 and I had no qualms about dealing with him directly through the whole house building process, so we decided that we didn’t need to have our realtor on hand through the building process. The catch…
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Building a House: What’s the Process?
*Quick Disclaimer: This post ended up being SUPER long, so I’ve split it into different steps to allow for easier navigation.* Curt and I are in the process of building a custom home and we constantly have people ask us where to start, what it takes, where we’re at in the process, how long it…
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Feel Satisfied with Your Life
The key to satisfaction: take care of you! I should have felt satisfied…with an adoring husband, four incredibly adorable and healthy kids, a cozy home, money to pay the bills with a bit leftover, food to eat, a relationship with God, family close by, time to pursue my hobbies…but I wasn’t satisfied. I’d wake up…
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“What Are You Doing Right with Money?”
Too often we focus on all the ways we need to change when it comes to money. It’s true that we should be responsible with our spending and try to improve in areas we’re struggling in, but we should also look for the ways we’re succeeding with money! Cooking and baking…that’s my thing -my favorite…