One of the main reasons Mr. NYer and I decided to buy this house here in Montgomery was that it was new construction. Well, to be more precise, it’s that it wasn’t old. As loyal readers will remember, we’ve already done the older house thing. Our Staten Island house turned 90 last year, and getting [...]
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Over dinner and a bottle of wine at the lovely restaurant attached to the Staten Island Hilton Garden Inn, Mr. NYer and I reminisced about the last 26 years and 11 months we spent in one house. We smiled, laughed and got teary remembering the ghastly decor when we moved in, the collection of neighbors, the [...]
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Our prospective buyers came by this afternoon with the Home Inspector. This is the guy who will look closely at the house and tell them everything that can possibly go wrong. A bad report can queer the deal; a good one is the first hurdle cleared on the way to a closing. When we bought the house, we [...]
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Mostly I’m blithely optimistic about the upcoming changes. I remind myself occasionally that there will be days where doubts and sadness predominate, but so far there haven’t been many. Today was one of them. Things are moving fast and with certainty. I leave — LEAVE — in just over a month. The house went on [...]
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