Entries Tagged as ‘The City’

September 10, 2006

Plans Out of the City

Yeaaaaay!!!!
Except it came about 4 weeks early.  We have been kind of caught with our pants down a bit since we don’t have financing lined up yet nor have we finalized on a contractor.  But our plans are ready to be picked up.
Probably this week, we will resolve the above.  We’ve narrowed our contractor down [...]

August 18, 2006

Plans at the City

Not only does the fair city of San Jose have a fancy new city hall and a questionably corrupt mayor, but they also have the plans for our house.  Checks have been signed for permits and plans are in the hands of contractors for final bids.
I’ve spent a lot of my free time this week [...]

April 21, 2006

The Man Is Keeping Us Down

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We met with Rick the other night and he delivered some semi-bad news to us. The City of San Jose has decided that attached garages are negatively affecting the integrity of the neighborhood of Willow Glen. Ouch, says us.
Our options are to A.) Spend a few hundred dollars and several weeks [...]