To say the least, it's been a long week that went very fast. Does that make sense? Let's see. Monday was the "sewer cam" at the new house. That went well and we're glad for that! Tuesdays are our busiest days as I have a three hour class that I'm taking and Eric has a three hour lecture for his class he's teaching. Wednesday was our home inspection at the new house. That went pretty well. Not perfect but nothing too major. Leaky toilet, some wiring that needs to be capped and gutters that need to be added to some spots. I guess the big thing is the asbestos in the basement; however, the seller agreed to pay for the abatement as part of our offer. We are still waiting for the radon test. Wednesday I actually ended up going home sick from school but started feeling better in the afternoon. I felt good enough to walk over to the new house to observe the inspection. I'm glad I did as it started getting me excited to get in the house and start painting! Thursday was a pretty typical day. Home around 5:30, went to Walmart, took the puppies for a walk, dinner, movie.
Regardless of how busy the week was, I'm glad it's Friday. I'm looking forward to seeing my friends this weekend and perhaps visiting with some family as well. Once we get closer to moving day, I'll post some pictures of the whole process. Hopefully it won't be too daunting as 60% of our stuff is already packed up!
Wishing all of you out there in blog land a wonderful weekend!
Friday, April 23, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Coasting...
So, I tried to think of a good title for my first post on this blog and came up with "Coasting" because I really feel that's how Eric and I deal with change. We take things as they come. Sure, we may protest initially if things don't go our way. However, eventually we realize that we whatever happened has happened and we need to just go with the flow and enjoy the ride. Let's see, that's three cliches in 3 sentences. Not bad!
Seriously though, things have been moving along nicely with house stuff. We got an offer on our house after only one week, which allowed us to pursue the houses we had been considering. Unfortunately, at the same time we decided to make an offer on the house we wanted, so did another couple--and they were faster than us. After the initial disappointment that we were beaten to the house we had really wanted, we decided to make an offer on a cute cape code house that is only a block south of where our current house is. Sure, it wasn't our first choice but, after making our offer and brainstorming a bit, I'm convinced it will serve us well. It's quite a bit bigger than our house and has the potential to be even bigger as the basement is not completely finished. It's also $15,000.00 cheaper than the one we were going to purchase.
As for our house (the one we're selling), we passed all our inspections and are presently awaiting the appraisal. I'll be happier once the appraisal comes in. I'll be happiest if that appraisal comes in at the number we need it to! The new house (the one we're buying) has inspections this week. Today it had a house "colonoscopy," so-to-speak (thank you Eric for the creative description). You know, a sewer inspection where they stick a camera through the sewer line to make sure it's not broken and aren't any tree roots going through it. According to the plumber, it looked pretty good so that's one thing to check off the list. Wednesday is the full inspection so we'll see how that goes.
Nonetheless, assume all goes well with inspections and this house truly does become our own, I'll be spending my summer removing flowery wallpaper, pulling up shag carpet and painting mauve crown molding white. Oh yeah, and painting or removing some lovely knotty pine paneling. Fun times! I see it as "personalizing" the house. Right now we're set to close on June 2nd. We'll keep you posted on how things go!
Seriously though, things have been moving along nicely with house stuff. We got an offer on our house after only one week, which allowed us to pursue the houses we had been considering. Unfortunately, at the same time we decided to make an offer on the house we wanted, so did another couple--and they were faster than us. After the initial disappointment that we were beaten to the house we had really wanted, we decided to make an offer on a cute cape code house that is only a block south of where our current house is. Sure, it wasn't our first choice but, after making our offer and brainstorming a bit, I'm convinced it will serve us well. It's quite a bit bigger than our house and has the potential to be even bigger as the basement is not completely finished. It's also $15,000.00 cheaper than the one we were going to purchase.
As for our house (the one we're selling), we passed all our inspections and are presently awaiting the appraisal. I'll be happier once the appraisal comes in. I'll be happiest if that appraisal comes in at the number we need it to! The new house (the one we're buying) has inspections this week. Today it had a house "colonoscopy," so-to-speak (thank you Eric for the creative description). You know, a sewer inspection where they stick a camera through the sewer line to make sure it's not broken and aren't any tree roots going through it. According to the plumber, it looked pretty good so that's one thing to check off the list. Wednesday is the full inspection so we'll see how that goes.
Nonetheless, assume all goes well with inspections and this house truly does become our own, I'll be spending my summer removing flowery wallpaper, pulling up shag carpet and painting mauve crown molding white. Oh yeah, and painting or removing some lovely knotty pine paneling. Fun times! I see it as "personalizing" the house. Right now we're set to close on June 2nd. We'll keep you posted on how things go!
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