Fast update today.
I know the page was down yesterday. Sorry, but there is nothing I can do about issues like that but wait for the page to come back up. Two years ago I got on board with a promotional deal with 1and1.com, the site that hosts Vail Life, and they were just breaking into the business so wanted multiple sites quickly. So for 6 months they offered 3 years free hosting with no strings. I got a pretty nice setup. 5 gig of bandwidth a month, 500 Megs hosting space, 25 sub-domains, something like 100 e-mail addresses, on a Linux box running all the goodies (MySQL, PHP, Pearl, bin files etc.).
But you get what you pay for and on occasion the site goes down. Thus I will not use them when my contract runs out and I need to find a site to pay for hosting. But until then I can't beat free.
Anyways at 11 a.m. I am going to the bank to run through the house approval thing again. The last time I tried getting approval for a loan I was making 23,000 a year and this time I make more than double that. But I still fall under the 56,000 cap for first time buyer’s assistance so I am aiming for a 220 thousand dollar house and need to hit a 250 thousand approval rate to get into it. I also need to figure out a way to come up with something like 4,000 - 10,000 for down payment/closing costs but I will figure that out as I get further along. First approval, then talk to seller, then start crunching hard numbers. I am once again all shades of excited and scared.
I am just wondering how many times I can go through the emotional rollercoaster in a year's time. Everything from spending 250 thousand to new jobs to still adapting to a new area in which to live. When I decided to move to Vail I didn't think I would be in such constant turmoil. Back in Minnesota I worked the same job for 5 years, living in the same house, hanging out with the same people, really doing the same routine everyday. I did this for 5 years. To flip that all on its head and completely break free of a "standard" routine is both breathtaking and breath-stealing at the same time.
I know the page was down yesterday. Sorry, but there is nothing I can do about issues like that but wait for the page to come back up. Two years ago I got on board with a promotional deal with 1and1.com, the site that hosts Vail Life, and they were just breaking into the business so wanted multiple sites quickly. So for 6 months they offered 3 years free hosting with no strings. I got a pretty nice setup. 5 gig of bandwidth a month, 500 Megs hosting space, 25 sub-domains, something like 100 e-mail addresses, on a Linux box running all the goodies (MySQL, PHP, Pearl, bin files etc.).
But you get what you pay for and on occasion the site goes down. Thus I will not use them when my contract runs out and I need to find a site to pay for hosting. But until then I can't beat free.
Anyways at 11 a.m. I am going to the bank to run through the house approval thing again. The last time I tried getting approval for a loan I was making 23,000 a year and this time I make more than double that. But I still fall under the 56,000 cap for first time buyer’s assistance so I am aiming for a 220 thousand dollar house and need to hit a 250 thousand approval rate to get into it. I also need to figure out a way to come up with something like 4,000 - 10,000 for down payment/closing costs but I will figure that out as I get further along. First approval, then talk to seller, then start crunching hard numbers. I am once again all shades of excited and scared.
I am just wondering how many times I can go through the emotional rollercoaster in a year's time. Everything from spending 250 thousand to new jobs to still adapting to a new area in which to live. When I decided to move to Vail I didn't think I would be in such constant turmoil. Back in Minnesota I worked the same job for 5 years, living in the same house, hanging out with the same people, really doing the same routine everyday. I did this for 5 years. To flip that all on its head and completely break free of a "standard" routine is both breathtaking and breath-stealing at the same time.