Posts by taubel

Keep the Thomas set! I have three boys and they all went through MAJOR train obsessions! We also had multiple types of trains, including lego, and they played with all of them. Legos are hard sometimes for the younger kids because they...

We got our son a balance bike when he was 4 (didn't know about it until then). At first he didn't have much interest, but by 4.5, he was a pro. A month before he turned 5, he asked to try a regular pedal bike without training wheels....

We just bought a new house and need to buy a new furnace for it (planned). It's a natural gas forced hot air heating and cooling system.   The HVAC guy offered us two choices (both Trane furnaces).   One is $3200 with...

Well, we forked over the $325 for a structural engineer. He was not worried about the house. He thinks the second story floor joists may have been installed improperly (with the crown on the bottoms of some of the pieces). He doesn't...

The house is only 25 years old! (Our current house is more than 50 years old and the floors are nearly level.) The walls, ceilings, etc. all seem to be fine. The foundation looks great (poured concrete with virtually no...

We are in the process of buying a larger home and had the inspection this morning. Minor defects were found, with the exception of one major defect - mold in the attic (but that's a whole other post)!   Anyway, the inspection...

Quote: Originally Posted by Sharlla  we got a large sum of money from FIL and we needed to do a gift too. i hadnt heard anything about taxes       Did you then pay back the money - or was it...

We just signed a contract to buy a house and still own the house we currently live in. It will work out that we are buying the second house before we sell our current house, which is not even on the market yet.   In order to...

My kids are 10, 8 and 5 and I involve them in many financial discussions. I have shown the oldest our credit card statement and our monthly budget. The older two know how much our house is worth, what heat costs,...

Just curious what size space you all live in....   We live in a house which is somewhere between 1300 and 1400 square feet. We're in the process of bidding on house that is just under 2100 square feet, and I feel like it's...