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Cake day: October 23rd, 2023

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  • In the 70s, every kid in the he area knew every other kid. The mother’s all knew each other or at least had phone numbers. Weekends and summers we would go play all day, sometimes in 1 house. The whole neighborhood looked out for all of us. If a mother needed to find a kid, just start calling the list of mothers. Regardless,when the streetlights came on, that was the signal to go home.

    No one questioned it. That’s the way it was. We would play football in the streets and move aside for cars. We would drink from the garden hose. Every kid played… There was even one kid missing a leg who used a fake limb, we let him at football with the rest of us (granted he played line), but he was one of us.

    Miss those days






  • All good advice here.

    Find a good agent to represent you.

    Get pre approved by your potential mortgage company.

    Have a decent down payment in cash ready.

    Never ever ever ever sign a deal with a per diem penalty. No matter what.

    Make sure you understand what your taxes and insurance will be. Also check for FEMA flood maps. My home had a paved patio and 6 inches of it touched a XX flood zone, they wanted 15k a year for mandatory flood insurance. I took a sledge hammer to the concrete and poof, no more flood insurance requirement.

    What the current resident pays in taxes is NOT what you will pay…research it.

    Don’t buy a house within 1 block of a school …school traffic is terrible.

    Get a full inspection…not just what’s required.

    Good luck