Sentences with phrase «scenes of buying a house»

As a first time home buyer, I was pretty clueless as to the process and just how much went into the behind the scenes of buying a house.

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The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

I drove to a gun buyback on Saturday in St. Roch organized as a Prospect satellite event by Kirsha Kaechele, a controversial figure in this city, who championed the New Orleans arts scene directly after Katrina by buying houses around the Bywater district and using them for art installations, only to retreat to Tasmania, «leaving thousands in unpaid property tax bills and liens behind,» in the words of the Times - Picayune.

For example, say that you bought a house and found out from a neighbour that it had been the scene of a horrific murder.

To her clients interested in the «flipping» scene, Ms. Gould advises: «Buying a structurally sound but ugly house in a great location, and preferably one that needs lots of minor repairs and cosmetic changes like removing old carpets, wallpaper and lighting.