Moving IN

We are almost done moving in, but not quite there.

We are almost out of our old home and have to clean it this weekend as well as move the last of our outdoor stuff, potted plants and things like that. Cleaning won't take long but we also have to move our stuff out of a storage unit. We were storing things in anticipation of moving and also have to move that in, not much room for it though upstairs.

Our garage is great, but needs work, and will fit most of the outdoor stuff and bikes as well as our collection of junk that we have collected over the years. My wife is really into crafts and has her own craft room and will have her stuff in the basement when we get to unloading the storage unit which has a good amount of her things in it.

We also have a couple of bench seats from our vans and other stuff that will also fit in the garage which is big. There is room for two vehicles as well as all our stuff once we get things organized. We will have to do some extensive work on the garage and have already started on the house with rewiring and fixing all those small things.

We will move the washer and dryer from the kitchen to the upstairs room that my wife is using for her crafts that was an upstairs apartment kitchen. It is perfect for her craft room as it has a sink and the power for her stuff that a kitchen would need for appliances. I am also going to be doing some work on the roof with adding vents and repairing siding but nothing real exciting.

I am really tired and have much more work to do. I'll write back soon.

Our New Home

We closed, now its time to move. We spent yesterday worrying and waiting for 2 and went to closing, it was quick.

After signing about 50 times we then left and picked up our son and started moving, cleaning and packing. We have spent the day moving and cleaning and will start on the big move, lots of boxes and furniture. My office will wait till Thursday as our phone and internet will not be in till Friday so that will probably be the last stuff, maybe.

Well, we have more stuff to move and pack away.

Happy day...

We are finally closing

We finally have our closing date for Friday. All the paperwork is in and we would have closed today but the title company doing our closing only has tommorow available. Yeah, we can finally pack up our house and move the whole four blocks.

It's going to be a busy weekend.

Continuing to wait

We are still waiting on some paperwork, apparently the seller cannot find the power of attorney or some such.

While this would be no big deal we are a bit mad as Michele had taken a week off of work, vacation, that has mostly gone to waste. Two of the days we sat around and did a little packing and cleaning here but Michele did get to go back to work for a few days. The problem is that when we do close she will not be able to take vacation as she works at a daycare and scheduling days off is a bit tricky. She is in charge of her room and to take days off they need to find a replacement which can sometimes be difficult for the admin so she will probably not get to take as many days off as we would have liked.

This kind of makes moving in more difficult but it also is taking away from a lot of the fun as we wanted to do this together and now it's going to mostly be me and the kids moving stuff with her pitching in after work.

I really wish the seller/realtor had not told us we had a closing date when they were not completely ready, that way we would not have wasted vacation time.

This is just one word of warning to potential buyers out there looking at buying a home, make sure there is clear communication and let the sellers agent know you want a definite closing date and that they have all their ducks in a row before taking days off from work.

Woops, a few days delay.

Our closing is being delayed a couple of days while some paperwork goes across the state for a couple of signatures. We should be closing Wednesday or Thursday.

Until then its wait.

Closing Day and other nonsense

Today we close, well tomorrow but that is only a few hours away. We will have a late closing as there are still a couple of things that need to get figured by the powers that be and those lower ones like appraisers. After all that gets figured out we will go to close and the house will finally be ours. I will post a bunch of decent pictures on my website as soon as we get some tomorrow.

I saw this on PC World and it is so appropriate:

Law 1: Fix a computer for a friend or family member, and you'll be tech support for life. --Danny Allen, PC World

I just love these Tech SUpport rules.

There's a bunch more but this one I find especially true.

Have a great week, mine will be the busiest of my life.

Two days and counting, plus or minus

We are just two days from closing, as long as all the last minute things get done. They are right now finishing the roof after having rushed to the last minute to start. We are not sure why the seller waited till this weekend to tell the roofer to go ahead but they did and we will see if we have a sound roof over our heads when we sign the papers.

We are not sure if the renter that was renting the upstairs is out as we did see him there today and he was supposed to be out by today but as long as he is not there on Monday that's fine with us. We do have locks and they will be changed right after closing. We will start doing things right away starting with locks and checking things out.

We'll make a list of things we want to get done right away but the first will be the electric and taking off the upstairs meter. The house used to be a duplex but we are not going to keep it that way. Actually the only thing making it a duplex is the two meters and a couple of locked doors.

The doors are simply going to be left open and the meter will go depending on cost. If an electrician can just remove that meter and connect the upstairs to the existing main service panel that would be great. I am hoping he or she can install a main service disconnect and I can work from there with the rest.

We'll see how things go after this weekend with what we have and what we can do but we have to first close on the house.

It is going to be a rough two days, closing will be about 4PM and it will be rough going through a full day just waiting around and packing some.