Well, here we are. Less than 24 hours away from actually beginning the long process of owning a house. Pics to come after we move in of course. The weekend is going to be fun packed of disorganization and clutter strewn all over the place, but it'll be fun. Our biggest concern is Moby. In packing up our house, we have learned a few things. One, he gets stressed out very easily. Two, he is deathly afraid of cardboard boxes. Seeing a box in our hand has him running away as if a knife weilding clown is chasing him. The second the box leaves our hand he is plastered up against us leaning on us for dear life for reassurance that everything is going to be okay. The question that has come to our mind since he's toally going to freak out this weekend is should we get him some doggy prozac? But then again what happens when you give a dog whose baseline is 22 hours a day sleeping some sort of anti-anxiety/sedative drugs? Would we need to invest in some sort of greyhound recuscitative kit incase it totally knocks him out? Also as goofy and clumpsy as he has been sometimes (he has walked into the glass sliding door, the chair, and the wall a couple of times) would he be more goofy and clumpsy? I guess we could wrap a blanket around him to protect him from falls and what not. We would need to get a doggy helmet as well. Could be quite entertaining considering how he reacts and walks with the paw protectors on. Another interesting note is the fact we now have a pool. Considering his complete and utter dislike of water, i'm looking forward to how he reacts with the huge cement pond we will have. I see him totally hating life after he falls into the fall the first time. Look forward to updates on that.
As for this past weekend, we continued the process of packing things up. We shot the wedding on saturday to some great success of course. The pictures came out great. We'll have to see how the bride and groom...er well maybe not the groom so much like the pics. The reception was quite entertaining, and of course we have determined that one of the requirements to live in florida is to either be named rob or donna. We have met realtor rob, bike center rob, mortgage rob, and now dj rob. I think there is even more robs that i'm missing somewhere. I will assure you our child will not be called either one.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
The Happening
Well it has happened. The past few weeks have been quite interesting to say the least. First, the appraisal came in low on the house we are building. BIG Shocker there!! It actually came in higher than we anticipated at 148,000. So that is our final out. However, getting them to agree with our request has been quite difficult to say the least. After all why wouldn't we want the house that doesn't appraise for the price we decided on, and yet still has many issues to resolve. The tile was laid, and low and behold it was on the diagonal like we said, only it was tiled in the wrong area! One of the doors was put on wrong, and yet there is still one of the arched windows that would need to be removed to complete our contract as written. Long story short, we are done.
Other news that is quite exciting is the fact we placed a contract on the house that we really really like. The home inspection went beautifully and we were just waiting for everything to clear when low and behold the appraisal came in low. Seeing as how the appraisers got the brunt of the blame for the financial crisis with housing for overappraising everything, we are now in a time where everything is under appraised to cover their own butts. With the appraisal 10,000 less than what we had anticipated, it has been a whirlwind of negotiations with the seller. The breaking point came monday when the seller went by the house and the water softener was spewing like old faithful. Thankfully this happened prior to closing and not right after. Realizing how close he would be to closing had him reworking the terms of sale along with us being willing to work. All in all i believe we are both quite happy with the outcome. So now the fun begins. We have exactely 1 week to closing and 1 week to moving out of the house. The only bad thing is that i work the majority of the week for next two weeks. The lack of sleep will definitely be a precursor to the next few months. After all we hit the lovely 30 weeks on tuesday. 10 weeks to go but who is counting!! Anyways off to prep for the next few weeks. Pics to come of the new house and other things but may be a bit depending on how we get settled.
Other news that is quite exciting is the fact we placed a contract on the house that we really really like. The home inspection went beautifully and we were just waiting for everything to clear when low and behold the appraisal came in low. Seeing as how the appraisers got the brunt of the blame for the financial crisis with housing for overappraising everything, we are now in a time where everything is under appraised to cover their own butts. With the appraisal 10,000 less than what we had anticipated, it has been a whirlwind of negotiations with the seller. The breaking point came monday when the seller went by the house and the water softener was spewing like old faithful. Thankfully this happened prior to closing and not right after. Realizing how close he would be to closing had him reworking the terms of sale along with us being willing to work. All in all i believe we are both quite happy with the outcome. So now the fun begins. We have exactely 1 week to closing and 1 week to moving out of the house. The only bad thing is that i work the majority of the week for next two weeks. The lack of sleep will definitely be a precursor to the next few months. After all we hit the lovely 30 weeks on tuesday. 10 weeks to go but who is counting!! Anyways off to prep for the next few weeks. Pics to come of the new house and other things but may be a bit depending on how we get settled.
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