Last Pic Taken Sunday

Find previous Last Pic Taken Sunday Entries . Scroll through your camera phone or digital camera, find the last pic you took – doesn’t matter what it was or how blurry or how random – Post it on your blog, and leave a link to it in this post’s comment section. I’ll stop by and [...]

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Last pic taken Sunday!

Find previous Last Pic Taken Sunday Entries . Scroll through your camera phone or digital camera, find the last pic you took – doesn’t matter what it was or how blurry or how random – Post it on your blog, and leave a link to it in this post’s comment section. I’ll stop by and [...]

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The Myburgh’s build a house

A good home needs a good foundation. Original arrangement with our builder was to start in August. Lucky for us, he’s having a problem with local brick-works supply, so he’s starting on our house earlier! This means that the foundation can rest for longer before they actually start the house. (I didn’t know that the [...]

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The Myburgh’s build a house: what the lawyer had to say

After giving up on finding financing ourselves, dealing with incompetent bank employees, and wasting time in waiting rooms… we contacted a type of broker. ABSA (of all places – I left them because of repeated bad service) offered us a 90% loan, which was one of the fairest offers we got. But the broker lady [...]

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The Myburgh’s build a house: You can’t bank on Banks

Surprise surprise, FNB stuffed up our loan application – more precisely, the consultant to whom we went to consult and aid us in applying for a building loan. Henk phoned the bank and asked what the problem was. Apparently not all the paperwork was submitted (from the consultant’s side) and even though were are pre-approved for [...]

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