It turns out buying a home is expensive. I’m not just referring to the mortgage payments I’ll soon have, but closing costs and stuff to buy to put in the home and appraisal fees and so forth. Wow. I’ll chalk this up under another one of life’s little lessons.
But, in the end, it’s worth it. House hunting may not be fun or glamorous, but it actually did wind up being easier than we had dreaded. And, like Michael Scott said… I don’t remember exactly what he said, but something about how homeowning is so important. And I think that being like Michael Scott is important. So. Yeah.
February 11th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Wow… congrats kid.
You own the one on the left?
-jon
February 11th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Yup, it’s the end home on a row of townhouses. We’re pretty stoked.
March 27th, 2007 at 8:09 am
[…] So, you get a new house and you can’t just keep your old RCA, speaker-kit-in-a-box system. So I decide to venture out and try to put together my own set. I searched around for a while and finally stumbled upon a Pioneer 5.1 speaker kit (I’d link that but it’s not on the site anymore) on Overstock. It got to the house relatively quickly and I had it all unboxed on Saturday. Turns out, speakers don’t do much without a receiver though, so it was time to shop. I had considered a Yamaha at Best Buy, but the store didn’t have it in stock and I didn’t want to wait for it to arrive via UPS ground. I wound up going with a Pioneer 7.1 x 100 watts/channel receiver which has 3 digital audio inputs and component video switching abilities (no HDMI at this price range) for $200 at an RC Willey Outlet store (the service was great, maybe we should have used these guys for carpeting). It had to come down from Salt Lake, so I didn’t get it until that evening, but that’s OK. […]