Toads Wild Ride
Found an interesting blog entry about the -linksource option to javadoc. It looks like it will include links in the javadoc pages so you can view the source online. I suppose I should do this for Bandera as well as our plethora of examples.
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House Hunt 2005 seems to be over. My wife and I recently purchased a brand new house (still not quite finished with it) and we are just waiting to close. So assuming we don’t run into any snags between now and closing we will be the owners of a nice new house.
Now this process was not as fun as I had hoped. We looked at a lot of houses (well, at least I thought it was a lot) in a short period of time. Some were definite no but most were maybe. The market here in Manhattan, KS is really crazy. One house we looked at went on the market (listed on MLS) at noon, I looked at it at 2pm, my wife went back with me at 3pm, and when our realtor (Stacey Hoffman, Hallmark Homes) called the listing agent there was already a couple making an offer. How is anyone supposed to find a house!!!
Another interesting problem we found was that realtors in town are not very nice to each other because they don’t need to be. What I mean by that is that since the market is so hot agents can just sell their listings to their own clients without ever letting other people see the house. We found this out because of a tip from one of my wife’s co-worker. They have some friends looking to upgrade and were planning on selling their house once they found one to move to. So they didn’t have it listed yet but it turned out they had a listing agent already (turns out to be a family friend). So we talked to the family to see about buying their house (it was in a nice neighborhood with what looked to be a good price tag). We then had our agent call their agent (Jim Ryan Jr., Ryan and Sons) to set up a showing. Their agent said he would not schedule it but would be willing to give our agent a referal instead. Put in laymans terms, he wanted to get whole 6% commission on the house instead of the 3% he would get as the listing agent. In other words, very selfish. We ended up seeing the house through the listing agent but we decided it wasn’t worth working with someone like this.
Now the non-fun can begin … MOVING. I am sure to post more about that whole process later. And I might have more on the process of buying a house if I can put my cursing and muttering into real english words.
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My wife and I have recently decided that renting might not be the best option for our housing and finances. Because of this we are starting what I am going to refer to as House Hunt 2005.
The problem with House Hunt 2005 seems to be that we are not terribly wealthy so we are shopping in the exact same market as most others here in Manhattan, KS. However, this is a good thing in many ways. First, since this is the hot market, a lot of new houses are being built in that price range. Second, some people seem to be upgrading during this time. And third, the chances are high that we will not be around much more than 3 years, we will have a very easy time re-selling whatever house we land in.
I hope to continue this in an effort to vent about the process and hopefully enlighten anyone that reads this about the joys and pains of buying a house, especially ones first house.
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