We are still waiting to hear on whether we’ll get the ‘short sale’ house and we aren’t likely to hear until the end of the year at the earliest. We have our fingers crossed because we can really see potential in that property and would be so happy living there, so here’s hoping one day [...]

We’ve been back in California for 5 months now, living in an apartment in Santa Clara close to Jasper’s work. We haven’t had our belongings delivered yet as we were waiting until we bought a house, but if you have seen my previous blogs you’ll know that isn’t going too well. So we have been [...]

The mountain house is a no go We spent about 4 or so hours at the house this week having inspections carried out for termite work, a general home inspection and a geotechnical on the footings and hillside. The geotech guy said there were some big issues with the fact that the house was built [...]

So after the disappointment with the short sale and the bank owned and the regular sale in the south bay that was over budget we decided to look further afield to see what we could get within a reasonable commute. We looked at houses out by the our friends place in Manteca and ridiculously we [...]

SCREWED!!!!! We waited for the paperwork, but when it finally came through they were asking for the extra 10k to be in cash! They would not accept us financing it, presumably because they knew it would not appraise for more than the $510k we had originally offered. We checked, checked and checked again but there [...]