Post-Settlement Update

Just a quick update...

 

Settlement Friday went well and was free of any surprises.  The move on Saturday was as painless as moving a lifetime's worth of stuff can be (HUGE thanks to my and Greg's parents and siblings, my cousin, my two friends and my dad's neighbor for helping us move.  I can't even express what a giant help they were).  We ended the day with pizza and beer and some cigars for the gentleman.

 

The rest of the weekend we spent unpacking, but we still have a LOT to do.  I am back at work today, but Greg is home re-seeding and fertilizing our lawn since the seeding they did was pretty minimal.  We spent a lot of money at Home Depot yesterday on lawn supplies.  Hopefully it will pay off and we'll have some grass before winter.  Greg is in charge of lawn duty, so I just let him do his thing :).

 

I am already starting to get used to the fact that this house is ours.  It was a little weird the first few days, but I'm starting to feel more and more comfortable.  We will have a ton of extra space for a while, but I'm sure we will fill it all eventually.

 

I plan to take my time with decorating and furniture-buying (I don't really have a choice since we both work full time and we have 5 weddings and 4 baby/wedding showers in the next two months), but there are a few things I hope to do right away: install a garage door opener, add cabinet hardware, and build a deck.  The first two should be fairly easy.  The third will be a learning experience, but I'm looking forward to it!

 

I will keep you all updated on our progress.  Oh and I will post some mid-unpacking house photos shortly.

Three More Days!

Our closing is scheduled for Friday at 12:00 noon!  We were also just told the amount of money we will need to bring to closing.  Yowza!!  It's actually less than our original estimate, so that's good... but it's still a crap-load of money.  I plan to cross check the final HUD they just gave us with our old ones to make sure there are no mistakes.

Here's my plan for Friday:

1. Sleep in (since I already took the whole day off of work and I really enjoy sleeping)
2. Drink coffee and eat breakfast (which I will soon be able to do in my lovely morning room!)
3. Settle (and hope that everything goes smoothly)
4. Celebrate!!!  Yippeee!
5. Go to our new house and do the following:
    -clean
    -seal the tile grout in the master bath and upstairs hall bath
    -seal our granite counter tops
    -install some paper blinds in the bedroom and bathroom
    -celebrate some more!!!

Then Saturday is the big moving day!  We'll have to unpack some coolers because our refrigerator is not coming until Sunday and I'm sure our moving helpers will want some adult refreshments after a longggg day of lugging our stuff.

I cannot wait!

Pre-Settlement Demonstration Scheduled

Our pre-settlement demonstration is scheduled for this Friday morning and settlement is next Friday!!!

I mentioned before that our PM quit last week and we had some trouble getting information about our new PM.  Well, I finally got to talk with our new PM yesterday and based on our conversation, I actually like him better than the old one.  I felt like he was genuinely concerned with answering my questions instead of brushing me off and making me feel like I was annoying him.  So it may be a blessing in disguise that our PM quit and  we have the new guy for the home stretch.

We have our Uhaul scheduled for next weekend and several amazing friends/family members lined up to help us move.  I'm getting so excited!!!

8 more days!

Shower Troubles

We found out why our closing date is so far away (as I mentioned before, our house is pretty much done, but we are not closing until September 21st).  Apparently he needs to order a completely new shower for our master bedroom because ours is cracked.  He is not sure how long it will take for that to come in so he's holding off on settlement to be safe.  It's a bummer because I'm getting anxious to get settled and unpack all of our stuff (we are living with my dad now and have kept most of our boxes packed).  On the other hand, I'm glad they are replacing it, not just trying to patch it up.  On the other hand, it's annoying because the crack was clearly caused by a careless worker dropping something so if not for him we could probably be closing next week.  On the OTHER hand (uh oh, I'm out of hands), were are still on schedule even with the September 21st closing date so I guess I really can't complain because this is what they told us from the beginning.

Our pre-settlement demonstration is scheduled for the same week as settlement right now, but I'm trying to get that changed because Greg and I both have important work things that week so we don't want to take two days off.  I'm hoping they will be accommodating.  Considering our house is basically done, I can't see why it should be a problem.