#mortgage buying

[generic-whumperz]

Babe, stop bothering me, can’t you see that I’m busy daydreaming about putting pretty fictional men though hell?

[bitchesgetriches]

Hi, I'm staring down the idea of owning my own house. Do you have any advice about purchasing a house/townhouse/condo whatever? It will be my first owned property and mortgage. I've never taken out a major loan before.

Congrats, kitten! This is an exciting step.

I highly recommend this episode of our podcast, which is specifically geared towards the resources you need when getting ready to buy your first home:

Season 2, Episode 2: “I'm Not Ready to Buy a House---But How Do I *Get Ready* to Get Ready?” 

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[frances-baby-houseman]

Link

Please remind me that I am not entitled to a 1.1 million dollar house just because I want it very very badly. I don't have 1.1 million dollars! That's the bottom line!

But it's 2 houses down from my MIL and the neighbor in between is the listing agent and her husband was like, we'll dig a tunnel under our house to connect you to rita! What a dream for my kids to just go back and forth between our house and their grandma's! we'd never need to pay for aftercare again!

[rowanthestrange]

Today I learned B&Q have TARDIS panel wallpaper

[13/14’s TARDIS colour ; 9/10’s TARDIS colour]

[deitiesofduat]

DEITIES Update – 2023 ➝ 2024 New Year’s Edition

Happy New Year Everyone!

Typically I would write a formal blog post for my end-of-year update, but I'm writing something on the fly for the sake of timeliness ✨

I wish I could say I completed most of what I wanted in the year 2023, as I had several goals I thought were feasible. However, some of those goals had to be placed aside for a very sudden but fortuitous reason, that I feel worth sharing with ya'll -- which is that Iiiiiiii bought my first house! 🥹🥹🥹

(As you can imagine, this took quite a bit of my energy and time this past year, thus explaining part of my absence -- more details regarding my activity under the cut!)

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From early August thru the end of December, my home-searching and closing process was incredibly long, stressful, exhausting, expensive (lmao), and time-inducing. I'm thankful to have had support from my agent, and well as my friends and family while navigating this ordeal, and I'm in the process of moving my items and services into my new home during the remainder of my apartment lease.

This home search combined with my full-time work, was a major reason why took a partial break from social media, and semi-hiatus from new art. This also affected my frequency of updating the DEITIES website and blog -- at least, on the front end. I did a lot of backend work and completed a major to-do with migrating the website and giving it a new primary domain -- so now, both deitiesofduat.com AND deitiesproject.com will redirect to the website. 👍

For the most part though, I used the 2nd half of 2023 to focus on some major life decisions, and leading into early 2024 I’m aiming to give myself a bit of a lifestyle reset. It's going to take some time to settle into this new normal, so aside from occasional media posts I'll continue to be quiet a bit longer. Once I complete some key home-owning goals and attempt to recharge, I'll aim to resume the goals I had in mind for DEITIES Project and my personal art, as well as engaging with my audience more (I miss interacting with ya'll, aha 😭).

In the meantime, thank you all for you continued patience and support! Despite being offline more-than-not this past year, I really appreciate the continue interest you all have in this project. DEITIES remains so important to me even with my shift in scope, so I'll do what I can to put iterate on it and give it all my effort when I have more bandwidth. Until then, wishing you all the very best in 2024!

[doqqy]

guys i’m going to view a flat next week. like to buy it. pray for me

[a-song-of-art-and-fire]

Maelys I Blackfyre (and Daemon Blackfyre)

"Captain of the Golden Company, named for his grotesquely huge torso and arms, fearsome strength, and savage nature. A second head grew from his neck, no bigger than a fist. He won command of the Golden Company by fighting his cousin, Daemon Blackfyre, for it, killing his cousin's destrier with a single punch and then twisting Daemon's head until it was torn from his shoulders."

Yes, yes, I know everyone was clamouring for more about Harry Strickland's blisters and bald spot, but I'm afraid I'm gonna inflict some more "two-headed giant punches a horse to death and rips his cousin's head off". I know, yawwwwwn.

Credit to @happy-chappy-miniatures for the idea of these Warhammer dudes as Maelys, I feel like the real coin the gods flip when a Targaryen is born is whether theyll be a hulking Grimdark terminator or a svelte ethereal elfin twink... talking of which, RIP Daemon there, a casualty of Targaryens believing they're the hero and thus must surely triumph over all odds syndrome.

I love the scaly looking cloak, it feels very draconic, while also having a vibe of wrongness- you feel like dragon riders would never have a dragon skin cloak for the same reason we don't make throw pillows out of beloved pets, but the later dragon-less Targaryens are so desperate to capture that lineage, they'll go about it in brutal, almost cannibalistic ways. As with my previous Maelys, I added the head - I'm less pleased with this one, the eyes look kind of cartoonish. I added the big axe on his back because this would be (just) before he could claim Blackfyre, and I like the flex implied by having a giant axe and choosing to tear someones head off bare handed.

[allhailthe70shousewife]

On tonight’s Columbo double feature! Watch Cozi to see👍

Last week there was not a single Mike Lindell commercial. Hope the ad money has run out. (Spending it all on lawyers ROFLMFAO!!! Screw you, Mike!!!!!)

[arts-i-enjoy]

AHHHHHH

[border-collie]

Can't afford to rent because I have two dogs, can't afford to buy because I don't have a 10% down payment. Stuck in living-at-parents purgatory.

[bitchesgetriches]

Season 2, Episode 2: “I’m Not Ready to Buy a House—But How Do I *Get Ready* to Get Ready?”

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[combeauferre]

be me. masc enough for no handbag. not masc enough for mens jeans. nowhere to sneak reasonably priced snacks into les mis tonight

[aro-culture-is]

american aro culture is feeling like you have to have a partner of some kind just because everything is so damn expensive and built under the assumption that you have two people with income :/

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[jakeperalta]

spent weeks psyching myself up to stand up to my mum and then immediately got shot down by her 😃👍

[simplydnp]

dan put to rest the expensive mortgage payment theory when appearing on anthony's funeral roast ✌️😔

[stars-inthe-sky]

How are things going post-move? How many boxes left unpacked? Anything hung on the walls yet? What’s your kitchen like? Said hi to any neighbors?

So far so good! Bébé's new daycare starts Monday, and I think things will feel a lot more normal and relaxed once we're all truly back in our routines and her various grandparents (who have been heroically covering childcare for the last three weeks) clear out.

There ARE some things hung on the walls, but mainly because the previous tenants left a number of nails and hooks behind, most of them in convenient places. The walls are plaster and I've been finding it unexpectedly difficult to hammer new nails in so far, so we're gonna see if the handyman can work some magic there.

The boxes question is complicated because there are some things we're just not planning to unpack, like gardening supplies (our current landladies are responsible for yard upkeep) and clothes and toys and things Bébé has grown out of but that we'd like to hold onto in the eventual event of a younger sibling—not necessarily in this house, though. Fortunately, we have a TON of space and had planned on storing such things, so nothing's feeling cluttered.

The kitchen is a good size and our stuff seems to fit! It hasn't been updated/renovated in a good few decades, so while I think the appliances might be newer, there's no island (an old IKEA table is doing that job) and generally it just needs some zhushing. But it's comfortable and serviceable.

That's been the case with the whole house, really—great for the year or two we intended to live here but not something we'd want to own, or deal with renovating in its entirety.

We've met a few neighbors (including the landladies, a married couple who live around the corner), and every single person has been lovely and welcoming! One next-door neighbor also has a very friendly gigantic black lab puppy, and Phoebe has seemed to enjoy racing him with the fence betwixt. (Benedict is big enough that I actually think she's more comfortable that way.)

Perhaps also of note is that there is a positively aces corner café literally three houses down from us on the main drag! We have all but moved in there as well.