Closing day was quite eventful. It first started out that we didn't find out how much the final cost of things were going to be until the morning of. Which is a problem because you can't pay with a personal check, we needed a cashier's check. Which also is a problem because we bank with USAA and it takes at least a day to get one. But we called our realtor and she said that we could just have it wired, but it would put us back a couple of hours until they got the money. Then it was almost time to go and do a walk-through at 11 and Jon thought he better call our realtor just to make sure we were still good to go. Well, apparently most of the things that we had put down in the contract for the seller to fix, had not been done yet. The seller is a contractor and does a lot of the things himself, so it was hard for him to get receipts to show that he had done these things. Then for some reason our lender was taking a long time to get the loan to the title company, so we had to wait even longer. But by 5pm we had signed and became officially homeowners. (we were originally scheduled to close at 12pm) Then when we got to the house it was BLASTED HOT!!! The AC was STILL broken. I say 'still' because that was one of the things that the seller needed to fix, and did not. So that is why he didn't have receipts, because he DIDN'T fix them! So the first night we did not spend here in the house. We made some calls and got everything taken care of. Or so we thought. Then our kitchen sink started leaking. WELCOME TO BEING A HOME OWNER!!! Luckily we were still under a 3 month warranty and were able to get it fixed. But even with everything going on, we went and celebrated by eating at Texas Roadhouse. It just happened to be kid's night. So the kids got to eat free, and they had this balloon lady going around and making some really cool balloons for the kids.
Jaedon got an alien. He didn't really want it, but the lady was sick of making the same things and so made this for Jaedon. At first he didn't like it, but then we showed him that the gun could come out, and then he thought it was pretty cool.
Livy got a butterfly
3 comments:
AHHHH! The joys! have you been exploring yet? Any good shopping? :)
Don't you just love being a home owner? Are you sure you don't want to rent for the rest of your lives? JK!
Loved the kids balloons. They were awesome.
Wow--exciting all the same. Closings are really crummy. The title companies are all incompetent too, which doesn't help. I will blog about my latest closing in a while--what a mess. We are still getting settled. CONGRATS, though!
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