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flea ([personal profile] flea) wrote2008-05-13 12:35 pm
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assorted tired updates

Dillo was up for the day at 5:10 this AM. Evil little rascal. I am so tired and it is only Tuesday.

We are planning a family (flea family plus Mother and her husband) visit to Athens for somewhere in the window of the 21st-26th. Wish us luck. There is a lot yet to be done.

Piedmont last night was a bit disappointing. We were seated upstairs, and it got very hot by the time we left, and my entree was kind of blah. I got the tagliatelle with shrimp and prosciutto in a tomato and white wine sauce, and the proscuitto made it very salty, and the tagliatelle were fresh and thin and floppy, whereas I like my pasta with a little more heft and bite. Ah well.

Tonight is Four Square. I've never been there. They have outdoor seating but I am not sure it's warm enough. Menu: http://www.foursquarerestaurant.com/menu.asp

I am thinking about the baby beet and wax bean salad, and the scallops, rice croquettes, or tenderloin for the entree. I realize, looking that the choices, that I actually like fairly plain food. These all seem sort of exhausting.

Question: if you had to choose between a banker mortgage where you liked the person and the fact that there's an actual bank involved, but the rate was higher, or a broker mortgage, where the guy was kind of annoying but the rate was better, which would you choose? I mean, you kind of have to choose the best rate, right? Since it's like, one zillion dollars in interest over the course of the loan, and even a variation of .02% is lots of money. Sigh. I really like the banker woman and I want to tell mortgage guy to eat me.

[identity profile] gingerk.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
If the choice with an actual bank holds its mortgages, it might be worth a small premium. The broker mortgages usually get sold and sold again; I've had as many as three different mortgage companies in one year. Each time it's sold, they screw up something. This time it was not paying the homeowners' insurance out of escrow.

Do you have access to a credit union?

[identity profile] casperflea.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I think there is a federal employees credit union. Someone told me I should look into that. Maybe it was you.