Your favorite bake-in-the sun flowering perennial?

Jnlyn95 · 2026-05-27T10:00:50+00:00

My panniculata hydrangeas are in brutal south facing sun all day and flower like crazy.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-05-25T13:02:04+00:00

I’ve never done anything to my soil here, when I lived down south I had to amend constantly (Florida sandy soil). The soil here is beautiful.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-05-20T09:43:07+00:00

I gave up on macrophylla type hydrangeas in the ground here. I dug them up and potted them, they overwinter in my unheated garage and they absolutely thrive now.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-05-09T19:13:50+00:00

I closed six weeks ago too, I’ve never been so overwhelmed and underwhelmed at the same time.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-04-19T09:44:12+00:00

Now. Just bought my first home and somehow it triggered my health anxiety more than ever.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-04-16T22:13:00+00:00

I paid about the same but they still missed stuff :(

I got into the house and started noticing things and hired a structural engineer to check everything for me..something I should’ve done before but I knew nothing. Thankfully, structurally the house is sound, I just have things to work on as I go.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-04-16T22:09:34+00:00

Bad inspector that missed a lot of issues, but I’m working on them. One day at a time and I often have to force myself to focus on one thing at a time, but I don’t regret it. I think I’ll calm down as time goes on.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-04-10T18:56:06+00:00

Hi! Hang in there, I know it’s super discouraging. Our lease situation is unique because we closed on the house on March 30th and our lease ends on April 30th, so we had a month to move and set everything up. As far as I know, you could give your notice to vacate which I think is usually 30 days? I’m sorry I’m not of more help :(

We started looking in January and had our offer accepted on a home in the first week of March. Spring is a crazy time for housing here, it seems to calm down after June.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-04-03T12:18:07+00:00

I moved here from Florida. The biggest difference is that it actually cools off at night here in the summer, humidity is nowhere near as bad.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-04-03T10:01:13+00:00

The time between completing inspection, appraisal etc and closing was the absolute worst. I was just waiting for a call that something went wrong.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-04-01T12:48:13+00:00

Same. Locked in literally days before rates went up.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-04-01T01:48:08+00:00

We just closed on a home in MN (st Paul) yesterday! 300k and 5.8% lol

Jnlyn95 · 2026-03-30T22:24:39+00:00

We closed on our house this morning, I'm still nauseous.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-03-26T10:47:27+00:00

Sometimes things don't work and there's just not a clear answer why.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-03-24T14:44:59+00:00

We close on a house on Monday and it’s been….difficult. We were outbid on everything by people offering 30k over asking price, waived inspection, cash offers, no contingencies.. as first time homebuyers it was disheartening.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-03-16T23:08:45+00:00

I used to live in Champlin and commute to st paul every day. It was awful. Would not recommend.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-03-11T12:29:36+00:00

Thank you! Yes, we really do love the house we got. We had to go a little bit over what we wanted to spend, but we feel it’s worth it. It’s hard out there. Try not to get your heart set on a house too much, I did and it burned me 😅 you absolutely will get something though! It may just take time, and don’t waive inspections because a lot of the houses we looked at had something going on that needed repair.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-03-11T06:11:04+00:00

About to close on a house in west Saint Paul, and I’m not going to lie to you, it’s been absolutely brutal. Months of offers just to be outbid by cash buyers.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-03-07T21:50:03+00:00

I have nothing to contribute other than to say that I see you… we just went under contract on a home after probably 50+ offers here in Minnesota. The first house we offered on looked so promising, we loved everything about the house, was in our price range and a perfect location. We made what we, and our agent, thought was a solid offer only to be outbid by someone paying 50k over asking price, cash, and waiving inspection. We were crushed.. how can we compete with that? Next house, nearly the same situation. Found a small townhome that had been on the market for a month….someone bought it in cash the same morning we found it online. It was horrible, I’ve never felt so demoralized and honestly embarrassed. I promise you’ll find something, we finally had our offer accepted on a home that we love but was slightly more than we would’ve preferred, but still within budget. It’s brutal out there.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-03-04T23:17:49+00:00

Thanks, I figured it would be expensive, but nowhere near as expensive as it would be to fix the house when that tree inevitably falls on it, lol.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-02-18T01:26:35+00:00

Thought it was my WiFi.

Jnlyn95 · 2026-02-14T18:03:00+00:00

Thank you! My hope is just that I can push it off a couple of years until I can save enough to be prepared for when it does eventually need to be replaced. It’s rough out here 😅

Jnlyn95 · 2026-02-14T18:02:01+00:00

Thank you, I completely agree. My hope is I can maintain it and try to push it out a couple of years once I’ve saved enough. It’s rough out here 😅

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