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Our Journey Towards Saving 100% Down For Our First Home: Part 1
Yes, we paid cash for our home, but we don’t think most people should follow in our exact footsteps. While we hope to encourage and inspire you through our story to think outside the box and set big...
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Saving 100% Down for A Home: Part 2
Stepping Out in Faith I well remember the day we moved. All of our family helped us pack up our little apartment and drive up to Topeka to unload it in our basement apartment there. It was a...
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Saving 100% Down for a Home: Part 3
A New Job in a New City Jesse started his new job the beginning of 2007 with high hopes. 2006 had been a difficult year of finishing law school, preparing for the bar, taking the bar, waiting for the...
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Saving 100% Down for A Home: Part 4
A New Beginning After three months of unemployment (which felt more like three years!), Jesse was offered a contract position at a large law firm in Kansas City. It was by no means an ideal job: the...
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Saving 100% Down for A Home: Part 5
Moving Back Home After we moved back to our hometown and Jesse started his law firm, things were a little shaky for the first few months. We’d already started a few businesses in the past, so we knew...
View ArticleHouse-Hunting: It’s Hard Work!
We spent years talking about owning a home and 21 months earnestly saving for one, but I guess I didn’t ever realize the work involved in actually buying a home. In fact, after the very first week of...
View ArticleHouse-Hunting: A Realtor is Priceless
In hunting for a house, we’ve found a realtor to be invaluable. Since we’ve never bought a house before, despite doing a lot of research, we feel like this has been a whole new world that we know...
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House-Hunting: Patience Pays Off!
We purposefully waited to look at houses until we had saved 100% of our goal for our house-fund. Because we were committed to staying out of debt and paying cash for a house, we didn’t want to put...
View ArticleHouse-Hunting: Could this be THE house?
Last week, I left you hanging after we’d been house-hunting for six months and were getting kind of tired of hearing the question “Have you found a house yet?” We were also becoming a little lax in our...
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A Dream Come True: Paying Cash for Our First Home
When we walked into this house, we both instantly fell in love with it. It was everything we were looking for — and so much more! Best of all? It was in our price range. While we both were a little...
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Saving 100% Down for A Home: Part 2
Stepping Out in Faith I well remember the day we moved. All of our family helped us pack up our little apartment and drive up to Topeka to unload it in our basement apartment there. It was a...
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Saving 100% Down for a Home: Part 3
A New Job in a New City Jesse started his new job the beginning of 2007 with high hopes. 2006 had been a difficult year of finishing law school, preparing for the bar, taking the bar, waiting for the...
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Saving 100% Down for A Home: Part 4
A New Beginning After three months of unemployment (which felt more like three years!), Jesse was offered a contract position at a large law firm in Kansas City. It was by no means an ideal job: the...
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Saving 100% Down for A Home: Part 5
Moving Back Home After we moved back to our hometown and Jesse started his law firm, things were a little shaky for the first few months. We’d already started a few businesses in the past, so we knew...
View ArticleHouse-Hunting: It’s Hard Work!
We spent years talking about owning a home and 21 months earnestly saving for one, but I guess I didn’t ever realize the work involved in actually buying a home. In fact, after the very first week of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
House-Hunting: A Realtor is Priceless
In hunting for a house, we’ve found a realtor to be invaluable. Since we’ve never bought a house before, despite doing a lot of research, we feel like this has been a whole new world that we know...
View ArticleClik here to view.
House-Hunting: Patience Pays Off!
We purposefully waited to look at houses until we had saved 100% of our goal for our house-fund. Because we were committed to staying out of debt and paying cash for a house, we didn’t want to put...
View ArticleHouse-Hunting: Could this be THE house?
Last week, I left you hanging after we’d been house-hunting for six months and were getting kind of tired of hearing the question “Have you found a house yet?” We were also becoming a little lax in our...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Dream Come True: Paying Cash for Our First Home
When we walked into this house, we both instantly fell in love with it. It was everything we were looking for — and so much more! Best of all? It was in our price range. While we both were a little...
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