Posted by K Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:00:00 GMT
It’s a miracle… the Longest Closing Ever (three months and a week, about) is over. We are closed. It is ours. Now the fun can really begin, if Chips gets back to us with an estimate and we figure out if we should change the locks now, later, or now AND later.
It feels weird.
Posted by K Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:20:00 GMT
Good god, I really want to win the lottery so I can have these cabinets. Their portfolio is killing me.
Posted by K Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:55:00 GMT
So we now have yet another closing date… next Tuesday at 11.30 AM. I am mentally rolling my eyes and yawning at the thought, because I am jaded. Our agent assures us that “everyone is motivated” to have this happen, but I am not buying that, really. Why would everyone suddenly be motivated when for the last few months there has been little to no evidence of motivation? We are the only motivated people involved, it seems, and we are just about out of time before our loan extension ends and we get penalized, which is adding to our motivation. But I am not sure it is adding to anyone else’s.
Anyway, we will see. I was just looking at the contract, here, and I realized we signed it November 21. Over THREE MONTHS ago. It’s kind of insane if you think about it. It’s a good thing I mostly don’t. It’s also a good thing we are not in a hurry to move in, or have a lease ending here or something like that.
Posted by K Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:29:00 GMT
Things to not miss about DC:
That stupid D-40ES form that you have to fill out and send in with your DC tax money quarterly when you live in the District and, say, work in Maryland, and whatever entities that exist can’t figure out how to take the actual taxes out of your paycheck.
I am not sure if this is one of those things that is just a sometimes thing or if it is always the case if you live in DC and work in a Real Live State, but I am not looking forward to dealing with it, in any case.
Also: no word on the closing yet. I would be annoyed but I am TOO OVER IT.
Posted by K Mon, 20 Feb 2006 06:41:00 GMT
But don’t hold your breath. the latest news is that the court has lost the jacket for the closed estate in the dead files, and that if they can’t find it by Tuesday, they will probably maybe let us close Thursday. I guess this means Round Three of frantic document gathering on our end, and good god, I hope to remember to call USAA about the insurance this time around (last time we didn’t close, it was so last minute the insurance had actually kicked in by the time I remembered to call).
Anyway, I forgot, but I posted some pictures over at Flickr. These are the nice ones. (Ha.) I will post more later, when I get the nerve and we own the house and I can say mean things because I will be crying through my laughter. Or laughing through my tears, whatever.
The latest in the Contractor Countdown is two bids in, waiting for the final one (since of course the two we have are many many dollars apart from each other).
I also think I spent my kitchen faucet money on a suit. I keep looking at it thinking it could be a faucet. I just don’t know.
Posted by K Tue, 07 Feb 2006 03:17:00 GMT
Right now I am convinced that this house is never going to close, that the contractors are never going to look at it and/or give us bids (we are waiting on one of each of those situations right now), and that we are never going to actually move anywhere.
