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Vacation Homes vs. Investment Properties: Where Mortgage Lenders Get it Wrong
I learned a lot when my wife and I recently decided to buy a vacation/retirement home. I learned that in a really old house bedrooms don’t necessary have to closets to be considered bedrooms – since the clothes hanger wasn’t in common use until after 1900. I learned that you need to really aim for [...]
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We Bought a House!
Okay, that title is a little misleading. We have a signed purchase and sale agreement on a home. I wrote at far too much length in a multi-part series at: Buying a Vacation/Retirement Home (Part 1 of ?). The process for looking in a home in a historic place like Newport, RI (and surrounding towns) [...]
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Buying a Vacation/Retirement Home (Part 4)
[The following is the fourth part in a series about my adventures to buying a vacation/retirement home. It may make more sense to read it after Buying a Vacation/Retirement Home and Buying a Vacation/Retirement Home (Part 2) and Buying a Vacation/Retirement Home (Part 3). There's also a prequel at Time to Buy that Vacation/Retirement Place?.] [...]
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Buying a Vacation/Retirement Home (Part 3)
[The following is the third part in a series about my adventures to buying a vacation/retirement home. It may make more sense to read it after Buying a Vacation/Retirement Home and Buying a Vacation/Retirement Home (Part 2). There's also a prequel at Time to Buy that Vacation/Retirement Place?.] For those who elected not to read [...]
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Buying a Vacation/Retirement Home (Part 2)
Last week, I found a few spare minutes to relate my initial experience of buying a Buying a Vacation/Retirement Home. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time between appointments to see houses, I skipped over some important details. It was clear in reading the comments that the post wasn’t what it should have been. In [...]
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Time to Buy that Vacation/Retirement Place?
Two weeks ago, I lamented about how I bought my home at the wrong time. In fact, I’m technically upside-down on the place. That means that my mortgage is slightly more than the place is worth. So why do I ask the ridiculous question in the title? … because my wife and I are seriously [...]
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7 Frugal Vacation Ideas in Newport, Rhode Island
I was really racking my brain for an article idea for today when it came to me. Do what you always do: write about what’s impacting your life. My wife and I got married in Newport, Rhode Island a little over two years ago now and we made a point to set aside a few [...]
