As of this afternoon I am a house owner. Or, put another way, I have a mortgage. I've been living in rented accommodation since I was 18. In the next few weeks I'll be moving in to my new house, which will be soon the place I call "home". The photo above isn't fantastic and today was quite overcast in Carlow, so it doesn't look as well as it could do. And yes, it'll … [Read more...] about I Finally Bought a House
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My Mother FInally Starts To Move House
IMG_0058.JPG, originally uploaded by blacknight. My mother will be moving house within the next couple of weeks. Hardly newsworthy or even worthy of a blog post .. but when you consider the amount of trouble she had with the entire process of building the house you quickly realise it's a milestone Of course now both my mother and my sister have houses of their own, so I feel … [Read more...] about My Mother FInally Starts To Move House
Maybe I Should Move To Florida
A couple of months ago there was an article in the Sunday Business Post about US properties for sale on eBay. Some of the figures were insane - you basically could buy a house for a few thousand dollars!This weekend's Sunday Business Post has another article on the same subject and is listing houses for sale at prices so low that you could probably get them based on a personal … [Read more...] about Maybe I Should Move To Florida
House Hunting Saga Continues – Daft Introduces RSS
As readers may have gathered I've been looking into the entire buying a house experience over the last while.My experiences to date have been mixed, but I am learning quite a bit in the process.The guys behind Daft.ie have been extremely helpful and gave me access to a really nice feature before unleashing it on the public earlier today. You can now subscribe to property alerts … [Read more...] about House Hunting Saga Continues – Daft Introduces RSS
House Buying Saga Continues
Image via WikipediaWhile I'm still getting emails alerting me to new properties for sale in Carlow every few hours I decided to check out prices in other parts of Ireland.Why oh why did we base our business in Carlow? If we'd based ourselves closer to the Shannon (ie. Limerick, Clare, Tipperary) the cost of houses would be significantly lower.Of course the infrastructure and … [Read more...] about House Buying Saga Continues