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Actually this isn’t the begining, but it is the begining of us really house hunting.  For the past 6 months we have been using Redfin and Trulia to search for homes that we might be interested in.  The problem we ran into with Redfin is that the concept is great and their search is top notch, but they won’t work with short sales.  Now hold on before you tell me short sales suck, I already know this.  I’m just interested in trying for the homes we like, and if that involves the possibility of a short sale I want to be able to make sure I’m using a Realtor that wants to work with us to find our home.  This is what brings us to our possible new Realtor, Dan Slater from Orange Realty.  He seems like a really nice guy so that’s a start.  He mentioned he is a board member on the city of Orange Chamber of Commerce and he knows one of the marketing guys at my work.  Next I’ll have to see if my barber knows him (Dick seems to know everyone).  Here are our housing qualifications.

We are looking for homes under the $400k range and we don’t want to deal with PMI
We love Orange and would love to live in the Plaza area but we know we can’t afford that, so we are looking in a couple various Neighborhoods in Orange and also Garden Grove.
3 Bedroom 1+/2 Bath
1000+ Sq/Ft house on 7000+ Sq/Ft lot
Prefer to have a back yard without a pool
2 car garage is a must

He’s going to take us out looking at homes on Sunday, so that should be fun.  I will keep you all posted on how things go and I’ll try to take some pictures of the homes we go look at.

Oh and for you political fans, no this is now Dan Slater from Colorado. ;)

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So for those that haven’t heard we got a new car.  I don’t have any great pictures to show of it yet, I’ll take some this weekend to show it off.  We got a 2008 Infiniti G35 Journey Sedan Sport (that’s a mouthful!).  The car is just amazing, talk about power, 0-60 in 5.4 seconds, 306 HP, V6 with RWD.  I absolutely love the car.  In addition to all the power it’s great inside, power leather seats, navigation, XM radio, it even has a back up camera!  We are really enjoying it.

In addition to that I was able to get Apple to replace my iPhone due to various issues I was having with it crashing, hopefully this will resolve those issues, so far so good!  Kelly has to take a trip up to San Francisco so she will be gone Thursday night till Friday night, I’ll miss her.

Other then that most everything else is good.  We went to Oak Glen two weekends ago with all my family (parents, sister, brother in law and kids) and picked apples.  We brought them home and Kelly cooked an apple pie, while I BBQ’d for everyone.  It was nice all hanging out, I’m hoping we can start doing that more often on my side of the family.  I did something to my left shoulder on Sunday morning and it’s been very painful when I extend it forward and do other various movements with it, so I’ve had to pull up lame on softball for awhile.  If it still feels the same next week I’ll set up a doctors appointment to get it looked at; but as it is right now, I can’t swing a softball bat.

Work is good, very busy lately, but busy is a good thing, especially in this economy!  My cousin Tim is getting married this weekend, I’m really happy for him!  Next weekend we are going to see The Who!

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So we went for a walk this morning after waking up and cooking breakfast.

3 Miles!

I’m drinking my first soda in 40 days, since Kelly gave up soda for lent I didn’t drink any either.  Probably won’t drink as much now, just when I get the carbonated craving.  We are going to do some spring cleaning in the apartment today and then later head over to Kelly’s moms for Easter dinner.  Should be a nice relaxing day for the most part.

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