(DISCLAIMER: There are no pictures in this post. Read at your own discretion.)
Well, I think its about time to update my blog. I keep trying to tell (convince) my wife that it is her turn to blog but she dismisses the idea quicker than I can ask!
Alot has happened this summer and I cant believe it almost over! At the end of May, we invested in a two foreclosed properties. I spent about a month fixing them up and getting them ready to sell. We are closing on both of them at the end of this month! We also just went under contract on our personal home and will close on it in about two weeks! This is just the momentum I needed to get my Real Estate Investing business off the ground and I am now looking to buy many more investment properties.
Since we sold our house, we obviously need somewhere to go. It was tempting to just move into the in-laws basement and not have a house payment but I am going to quit my Job at the hospital soon and thought it would be wise if we got a house with Great long term financing before I quit. We found a Foreclosed Duplex on Kinghorn (off Hawthorne Rd. by the OK Ward Park) that was built in 1997. Each unit has 1700 sq. feet, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 carports, and a big yard. We made an offer to the bank for $130,000 and they accepted yesterday! In the agreement we asked them to buy down our interest rate 3 points which will give us a mortgage rate of about 4.5%. Sorry to go into all the details but Real Estate gets my Passion Juice flowing! We will hopefully be able to close on our E. Hayden house and the Kinghorn house at the same time so we only have to move once.
Jenilee has thouroughly enjoyed her summer thus far and I really need her to post to tell you about all her adventures. I will give you a quick snapshot of what she has been up to. She started the summer going to Oregon with her grandpa to visit friends and family. She then came with me to Phoenix to attend the Real estate investment college. She is now in Texas visiting her Brothers and their families and next week we go to Island Park for a week. Three days after we get home she will start her 3rd year of pharmacy school. She claims that this is her "last summer" because next summer she will be doing her rotations for school. She definately made it a great summer!
This last week I had a one of my best friends(Mark Ritcher) come and visit for a week. He moved about two years ago to attend college in Virginia. It was awesome to see him again and it was like he had never left. I love how even if I havent talked to my friends in years I can still call them or meet up with them and it feels like we talk daily.
This about sums up our summer in a nut shell. It feels like I havent seen or hung out with anyone this summer because I was so swamped with work but we are doing awesome and send our love to you all!
Friday, August 14, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
WE ARE SELLING OUR HOUSE!!!! CHECK IT OUT
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If you know anyone who is interested in a house let them know about this one. Especially if they are first time home buyers or low income buyers because this house qualifies for many grants. THANKS
If you know anyone who is interested in a house let them know about this one. Especially if they are first time home buyers or low income buyers because this house qualifies for many grants. THANKS
Sunday, March 22, 2009
The computer geek and his HTPC
HTPC stands for Home Theater Personal Computer. It hooks up to your TV and has many features that you can customize. I decided to build my own. The desktop cost me $350 altogether after some sweet mail in rebates I got. It has a dual core 2.7 GHZ processor that I overclocked to 3 GHZ and the RAM speed I overclocked to 1066! This thing is a screaming machine. I decided to put a 1 TB (1000 Gigabytes) hard drive in so I could have lots of room to record live TV with my TV tuner card. The TV tuner also has a built in FM tuner so I can listen to the radio. The computer is hooked up to the internet to I can stream movies from netflix and surf the web while sitting back relaxing on my couch. My DVD burner came with some sweet software so I can watch movies in 1080i quality and my video card has an output for a HDMI cable so the picture it produces is gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous.
My computer:
NZXT Apollo Black SECC Steel Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM-US2H AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
SAMSUNG Black 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 22X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
OCZ Reaper HPC 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 Kuma 2.7GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 95W Dual-Core black edition Processor
ASUS EAH3450 SILENT/DI/512MD2 Radeon HD 3450 512MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Ready Video Card
KWORLD PlusTV Analog Lite PCI TV Tuner Capture Card w/ Remote PVR-TV 7134SE PCI Interface
APEVIA ATX-CW500WP4 500W ATX Power Supply
Monday, February 16, 2009
Snobird-Skiers Paradise
My wife is frantically trying to finish a project for school so I thought I would update my blog which I have not touched for a while.
We headed to Salt Lake on Sunday night with mom and dad Spicer and stayed at the Kimball. Monday morning we woke up at 7:30 am to head to the mountain. When dad Spicer woke me up I looked at the time on the VCR at it said 4:55 am and I thought he had lost his marbles. I knew they were "die-hard" skiers but this was going overboard! It turns out that the VCR was off by 2 and a half hours and so peace was once again restored in the land. When we loaded into the suburban it was very strange to only have four people in the car. We are so used to having the suburban packed full of family when we go skiing. Onlooker's probably thinks we are a "circus car" as neverending amount of people exit the car when we arrive. Any family in Texas reading this, WE MISSED YOU GUYS!!! Anyway, the Ski hill was very empty and there were hardly any people there all day. I thought for sure since it was Presidents day that the tram and ski lifts would be packed. We were able to walk onto the tram with no line! It also snowed all day and so the snow was very good. Here is a couple of pics of our trip.
We headed to Salt Lake on Sunday night with mom and dad Spicer and stayed at the Kimball. Monday morning we woke up at 7:30 am to head to the mountain. When dad Spicer woke me up I looked at the time on the VCR at it said 4:55 am and I thought he had lost his marbles. I knew they were "die-hard" skiers but this was going overboard! It turns out that the VCR was off by 2 and a half hours and so peace was once again restored in the land. When we loaded into the suburban it was very strange to only have four people in the car. We are so used to having the suburban packed full of family when we go skiing. Onlooker's probably thinks we are a "circus car" as neverending amount of people exit the car when we arrive. Any family in Texas reading this, WE MISSED YOU GUYS!!! Anyway, the Ski hill was very empty and there were hardly any people there all day. I thought for sure since it was Presidents day that the tram and ski lifts would be packed. We were able to walk onto the tram with no line! It also snowed all day and so the snow was very good. Here is a couple of pics of our trip.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Top 8 Idiots of 2008
This is a funny email I reveived and thought that I would pass it on to you:
Number 1 Idiot of 2008...
I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center.
Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital.
She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants. I told her that she better bring her daughter into the emergency room right away.
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Number Two Idiot of 2008...
Early this year, some Boeing employees on the airfield decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747's.
They were successful in getting it out of the plane and home. Shortly after they took it for a float on the river, they noticed a Coast Guard helicopter coming toward them. It turned out that the chopper was homing in on the emergency locator beacon that activated when the raft was inflated.
They are no longer employed at Boeing.
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Number Three Idiot of 2008...
A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into the Branch and wrote this, 'Put all your muny in this bag.'
While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the police before he reached the teller's window.
So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to the Wells Fargo Bank.
After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller.
She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he wasn't the brightest light in the harbor, told him that she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank of America. Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, 'OK' and left.
He was arrested a few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at Bank of America .
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Number Four Idiot of 2008...
A motorist was unknowingly caught in an automated speed trap that measured his speed using radar and photographed his car.
He later received in the mail a ticket for $40 and a photo of his car.
Instead of payment, he sent the police department a photograph of $40. Several days later, he received a letter from the police that contained another picture, this time of handcuffs. He immediately mailed in his $40.
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Number Five Idiot of 2008...
A guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and demanded all of the cash from the cash drawer. After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of Scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to put it in the bag as well, but the cashier refused and said, 'Because I don't believe you are over 21.'
The robber said he was, but the clerk still refused to give it to him because she didn't believe him. At this point, the robber took his driver's license out of his wallet and gave it to the clerk. The clerk looked it over and agreed that the man was in fact over 21 and he put the Scotch in the bag.
The robber then ran from the store with his loot. The cashier promptly called the police and gave the name and address of the robber that he got off the license. They arrested the robber two hours later.
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Idiot Number Six of 2008...
A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously waving revolvers. The first one shouted, 'Nobody move!' When his partner moved, the startled first bandit shot him.
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Idiot Number Seven of 2008...
Arkansas : Seems this guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run.
He lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back knocking him unconscious. It seems the liquor store window was made of Plexi-Glass. The whole event was caught on videotape.
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Idiot Number Eight of 2008...
I live in a semi-rural area. ( Weyauwega , Wisconsin )
We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the Deer Crossing sign on our road.
The reason: 'Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! I don't think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore
Number 1 Idiot of 2008...
I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center.
Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital.
She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants. I told her that she better bring her daughter into the emergency room right away.
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Number Two Idiot of 2008...
Early this year, some Boeing employees on the airfield decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747's.
They were successful in getting it out of the plane and home. Shortly after they took it for a float on the river, they noticed a Coast Guard helicopter coming toward them. It turned out that the chopper was homing in on the emergency locator beacon that activated when the raft was inflated.
They are no longer employed at Boeing.
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Number Three Idiot of 2008...
A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into the Branch and wrote this, 'Put all your muny in this bag.'
While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the police before he reached the teller's window.
So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to the Wells Fargo Bank.
After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller.
She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he wasn't the brightest light in the harbor, told him that she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank of America. Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, 'OK' and left.
He was arrested a few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at Bank of America .
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Number Four Idiot of 2008...
A motorist was unknowingly caught in an automated speed trap that measured his speed using radar and photographed his car.
He later received in the mail a ticket for $40 and a photo of his car.
Instead of payment, he sent the police department a photograph of $40. Several days later, he received a letter from the police that contained another picture, this time of handcuffs. He immediately mailed in his $40.
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Number Five Idiot of 2008...
A guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and demanded all of the cash from the cash drawer. After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of Scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to put it in the bag as well, but the cashier refused and said, 'Because I don't believe you are over 21.'
The robber said he was, but the clerk still refused to give it to him because she didn't believe him. At this point, the robber took his driver's license out of his wallet and gave it to the clerk. The clerk looked it over and agreed that the man was in fact over 21 and he put the Scotch in the bag.
The robber then ran from the store with his loot. The cashier promptly called the police and gave the name and address of the robber that he got off the license. They arrested the robber two hours later.
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Idiot Number Six of 2008...
A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously waving revolvers. The first one shouted, 'Nobody move!' When his partner moved, the startled first bandit shot him.
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Idiot Number Seven of 2008...
Arkansas : Seems this guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run.
He lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back knocking him unconscious. It seems the liquor store window was made of Plexi-Glass. The whole event was caught on videotape.
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Idiot Number Eight of 2008...
I live in a semi-rural area. ( Weyauwega , Wisconsin )
We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the Deer Crossing sign on our road.
The reason: 'Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! I don't think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore
Sunday, January 4, 2009
75 degree Christmas
We were able to spend Christmas in San Antonio with The Spicer family. It was rough one of the days when the temperature dropped to 65 degrees. I had to wear a long sleeve shirt. :) We not only spent Christmas there but we were able to celebrate our 3 year anniversary! We will list pictures so you can see what we did while in Texas in no special order.
Other Activities:
-We rented a house for 7 nights So all 14 of us could play games (Nerts, Outburst, Catch Phrase, and Pictionary), eat lots of food, and watch "The Office"
-Rudy's BBQ Restaurant and Chris Madrid's famous hamburgers- Watched "Valkerie" and "Yes Man"
-Shopping at San Marcos Outlet Mall
-Beautiful baby blessing of little sweet Kate Noelle Spicer
-Many different illnesses passed around to each other
-TENNIS!
-Taking 3 or 4 cars everywhere we went
-Visiting friends in Austin and seeing the Spicers old house
-Grandpa Spicer's Christmas Eve story as the kids laid down with their hands on their chin listening intently
-Luke's Italian Spaghetti and The delicious burnt chili
The riverwalk on our gondola
The Beautiful Riverwalk
The Alamo
Sea World Dolphin show
The Shamu show at Sea World
Lake Austin- The Spicer's second home when they lived here
Family Pictures
Left to Right: Jennie, Bentli, Jared, Tatum, John, Robbie, Daniel, Luke, Jenilee, Kallon, Cory, Amy, and Kate
Intense Tennis lesson- Happy 3 Year Anniversary!!!!!!!
Favorite Rollar Coaster at Sea World (do you see me in the back caboose?)
Christmas morning bliss
The Spurs vs. Timberwolves. Spurs stomped 'em
Thursday, December 11, 2008
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