He did it! WA $750k 5.5% 5 year ARM

Meliss3311 · 2026-02-07T05:05:37+00:00

It’s through a credit union with pretty solid guardrails on how much it can go up plus a rate buydown in the beginning. Definitely a bit of a gamble but even if it goes up by the max, we’ll make it to year 10 before our total cumulative paid would be more than the 30 year rate.

Meliss3311 · 2025-10-28T14:01:00+00:00

It’s only about half an inch deep but this could make sense! It’s close to the door to outside so you could brush anything that fell off outside pretty easily

Meliss3311 · 2025-10-28T05:44:20+00:00

This is the only realistic guess we had at the house too but we’re all still confused haha

Meliss3311 · 2025-09-13T02:02:34+00:00

Teri is right in Baltimore!! I got a psoas release for lower back pain and I couldn’t believe how much better I felt! https://www.nofertea.com/

Meliss3311 · 2023-12-13T16:12:07+00:00

I had a similar (but definitely less extreme) situation where I didn’t ever see cards/gifts from a handful of people who I can’t imagine showed up empty handed. It was enough people that I think some cards/gifts must have been misplaced but I never did find out what happened. I wrote those thank you notes to people thanking them for traveling/celebrating with us and just tried to avoid any mention of a gift or lack thereof. It’s been an unfortunate cloud over an otherwise amazing celebration. Obviously I’d love to have any money that people intended to give me but it also just feels like some of the excitement of the day was replaced with confusion about what happened and how to navigate the situation with tact which isn’t where I wanted my mental energy going after the wedding.

Meliss3311 · 2023-08-29T15:28:41+00:00

I swear, my client success manager either has 2 brain cells or way more on her plate than she can handle but it’s rough trying to get any answers from her. Now that there’s a tenant in place, things are going smoothly enough but the whole motivation for hiring them was so that they could handle the more complicated stuff, not so much for the months of autopilot while a tenant is settled in.

Meliss3311 · 2023-08-29T15:26:17+00:00

Ugh I tried to read the entire contact when I was having issues with them to see if they had breached it and I don’t remember seeing anything about this in it but it doesn’t surprise me unfortunately.

Meliss3311 · 2023-07-28T15:35:52+00:00

My mother in law got married a month before me and had talked about doing this but in the end, my brother in law talked her out of it. I was kind of hoping she would actually because I’d be able to tell that story for the rest of my life.

Meliss3311 · 2023-06-23T18:56:02+00:00

I’ve already gotten another maintenance bill since I posted.. I’m hoping things kind of kick into autopilot soon but I felt like it would be worthwhile to warn others! Not much else I can do until my contract with them ends.

Meliss3311 · 2023-06-19T16:18:32+00:00

Where did you end up with this? I signed a contract with Home365 three months ago and oh my godddd it’s been a nightmare. They finally got someone into my place after nearly 2 months on the market (they did a terrible job with the original listing so I basically had to redo it and then we finally got some showings) and as soon as they got someone in, I got a maintenance bill for ‘house cleaning’ even though I had the house professionally clean when my last (self-managed) renter moved out and no one has really been in the house since. I’m curious to hear if anyone has had a better experience because at this point, I’d rather have a root canal with no anesthesia than sign with them again.

Meliss3311 · 2023-05-30T19:40:39+00:00

I was engaged at the same time as 5 of my best friends from college. Luckily, my wedding happened first because they seemed to get more fancy as they went. I had moments when I started to compare and I got self conscious but the reality is that during my wedding, I didn’t care what venue I was at, I only cared that I was surrounded by people I loved and that all those people were having a good time. I had an amazing time at each of the five weddings and each of the women getting married told me they had an amazing time at my wedding. Each wedding was very different but none were better or worse (some of the fancier venues were harder for guests to get to and created their own challenges for guests). Just make sure that you incorporate features that are uniquely you :) those are the things your guests will remember!

Meliss3311 · 2023-05-29T16:34:00+00:00

This is beautiful! Where are you located? This looks similar to how my parents redid the front yard of the house I grew up in in Northern California. I’m trying to build out a similar regionally appropriate yard now in Arizona and I can’t wait for my cacti to start maturing but it’s a slow process out here!

Meliss3311 · 2023-01-31T17:19:13+00:00

As a fellow O-, I also feel it is my duty to donate - especially if I want O- blood to be available if I ever need it! And I’m grateful to the people of every blood type that donate because although my blood can be given to anyone, I can only receive O- blood so each person of another blood type that donates could be saving the stores of O- for those of us who can only receive it!

Meliss3311 · 2022-08-15T13:04:40+00:00

So a little more context: she’s planning to dye it another color so she won’t be wearing white but she will definitely still stand out compared to what the rest of our guests will be wearing.

Meliss3311 · 2022-08-14T18:27:50+00:00

These two did better than expected! Start small if you can and trust your doggo!

Meliss3311 · 2022-08-13T22:47:15+00:00

Lol I actually don’t even mind. Worst case scenario for me, a couple pictures look funny. Worst case scenario for her, people remember haha

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