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 [...]

Other than the whole house stuff which seems to have dominated our lives for the past 3 months we have both been pretty busy. Jasper was working so so hard on the lead up to JavaOne 2010 on demos which went down really well. He even got a round of applause in the middle of [...]

Since my last blog the last house we put an offer in on went off the market … We looked at dozens more houses … We put an offer in on a great house in the same area we liked before but again lost out to a higher bidder … Then the same house that [...]

Well we have been back in California for a month now. We are really pleased to be back, Jasper’s work is going well and it makes such a huge difference for him to be back in the office. We are also very much enjoying the sunshine, it’s been beautiful and sunny between 26 and 32 [...]

OK, so I realise I have been incredibly slack in writing posts this past year. So much has happened and I don’t know where to start really. I ended up deferring my exam for ED209 from October last year and my ECA for SD226 because it was too difficult to focus on my studies at [...]

I have been working for off the record for a few months now and am over half way through both of my current OU courses. Aside form this we have of course been working hard on getting the house done up. We are hoping to get the carpet, windows, front door and dining room finished [...]