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The problem is lots of banks require that you pay in order to lock early. From the banks I talked to, you can lock at 45 days out, whereas there may be a cost of 1 point for a 60-day lock and more for earlier. @songkou - Awesome! You're going to love it here (but maybe not at the park, which...

LOAN In my experience, it seems the right time to start working on your loan is once it's possible for you to lock in your interest rate. Once you're ready to talk to a different lender, you must read about my lender experience here [required...

It's bothersome to have so many dimmer switches in the house for ceiling fan lights when it seems most ceiling fans don't have dimmable lights.

I think there's more to it than that because on an almost daily basis, I can use the Enter button to close the garage without previously operating the keypad at all. E.g., I'll open the door from my car remote then walk from the street hitting Enter as I enter my garage. Or I'd use the wired...

Bummer. : ( Pro tip: We discovered accidentally that to close the garage you don't need to enter the code; just pressing the Enter key by itself will close the door. This isn't very obvious.

Maybe it depends on what kind of lights you have. Our two bedrooms with 2 recessed LED lights aren't well lit at night. There are two spotlights but everywhere outside of those circles is really dim. I'm hoping the ceiling fan lights will compensate and brighten up the rest of the room. That was...

At Saratoga the opener is side-mounted, but it yields no ceiling space because the garage door is just a few inches lower when it's open. If you have some space above your open garage door, I'd totally put install storage racks up there.

It's probably not a big issue, depending on what the particular sound is, perhaps. As I recently learned, the primary condensate line from the AC in the attic connects up to the nearest sink's drain pipe. This means if there are sounds that echo through that condensate line, it may very well be...

The 4 lights for each bedroom is great. To conserve funds, we only added 2 lights to each bedroom (except the master) because we also wired for ceiling fans and hope the light from that will fill out the rest, and the room definitely needs more light than just the 2 canned lights. Another great...

As ps9 guessed, our 96" curtains were too short. In addition, the quality was far below what my wife was hoping for. We've returned those to Overstock and ordered some new ones at 54"x108" from Kohl's. They seem to be better quality, so we're keeping our fingers crossed! We did keep the rods we...

Yes, that $285 was a nice surprise! No one else seems to have mentioned it, but the guys who delivered our washer yesterday told us there's also $85 in rebates available from the Gas company for Energy Star and high-efficiency...

@Irvine_Dreamer - Yes, definitely will. John gave me 3 copies for the HOA and I didn't bother to take a photo/copy for myself, but I'll do that whenever I have one in my hands again. We still don't have a start date because we're *still* waiting for the HOA to approve our plans. : ( We submitted...

@Jenita143 - As far as quality of the final design, it is great, especially because we kept coming up with new ideas about how to change the design. John was totally easy-going about our constantly-evolving adjustments and patiently helped with lots of his own suggestions. As far as price, we...

Interesting. When I bought from Home Depot they applied the rebate no questions asked about the home. Perhaps they also don't know (or care) about that restriction.

The few rankings I found while doing my refrigerator research all had Samsung and LG at the top of the list for best brands, so it would seem they're pretty quality and reliable nowadays.

Yes, new development with 9 foot ceilings, however there are several inches of crown moulding at the top. By my measurement, 96" will take the panel from the floor (w/o puddle) to 3" above the window edge and 3" from the crown moulding.

Great tips, ps9. Thanks! Here's the best photo I have from the model: We actually just ended up buying from Overstock earlier. It's not exactly what we wanted, but we've been struggling across so many websites and brick-and-mortar stores for so many days, we just had to bite the bullet and...

Either one or both. Any drapes we actually like always end up only 50" or 52" wide or shorter than 90" tall, but we need 54"x96".

We have been desperately searching for drapery over the past several days to cover our large windows that leave us completely exposed because the neighboring homes over our back wall look like they'll beer closing escrow soon. We're having a heck of a time finding drapes we like. We are trying...

For anyone interested, we got the LG French door fridge with the door-in-door feature, which we really like:http://www.lg.com/us/refrigerators/lg-LFX31945ST-french-3-door-refrigerator Aside from the apparently faulty first one we got, we love this one. The ice maker is in the door, the whole...