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Why you need a bill of sale at closing We recently bought a land home deal, which is a mobile home being sold with land. We call it a land home deal because you can buy just the trailer and not the land. This takes place in a mobile community or somewhere else where you own the home but rent the lot it sits on. Buying a mobile home on a rented lot was something we used to do all...
I have lots of questions I’m going to be open and honest with you about something that’s been going through my head. It stems from a conversation Ashley and I were having before bed. As I was laying there, something dawned on me. I looked over at Ashley and said, “I have to be honest. Being a parent is not how I envisioned it.” She looked over at me and with the best British...
Rental Application Procedure The way we take rental applications has changed over time. When we first started, we would take lots of pictures, a video tour and then upload all that material to a website that we could advertise on for free that would also syndicate to other sites like Zillow and Trulia. We would then put hand-painted red signs in the yard of the property listing all the...
Find a routine We got back from a weeklong stay at the beach at 10 p.m. last night. That’s kind of late for us. But we got everything in the house and were in bed by 11 p.m. so I could get up and be at the gym this morning by 5:30 a.m. Now, I’m here to tell you, it felt really, really good to be in my bed last night. I slept better in those 5 1/2 hours before my alarm went off than...
You have to go inside the house My sister and her three kids are moving cross country — and I mean literally from one coast to the other. On the fifth day of their long car trip, they finally made it to Georgia and stopped in to spend the night at our house for some family time and a much-needed reprieve from hotel rooms and restaurant food. We had a good get-together. My mom and...