My blog. Personal thoughts, anecdotes, and musings.
Josh, Eric and I finished washing the walls in the living room and dining room tonight instead of practicing Karate. The walls were so filthy that we went through about 30 gallons of ammonia water for just two rooms. The color of the walls has changed quite a bit, and I think we may have actually taken some of the paint off of the walls too. That’s alright though because we will be painting it this weekend.
Carissa, Ana, and I spent the weekend over at the new house doing some work. We pulled up the carpet that was in the living room, dining room, and hallways. There was so much dust underneath the carpet that I couldn’t breathe. The smoke smell was awful and when we took the carpet outside to get it out of the house, I nearly threw up from choking. THere was almost an inch of dust on the floor where the carpet had been, but after we cleaned up the dust, the floor looked pretty decent.
We closed on the house today. It really wasn’t a very big deal. We signed a lot of papers and read a lot of legal forms, at which time we were handed the keys. Dad and I spent some time this morning coming up with a game plan of how to handle some of the repairs that need to be done. But now I have to spend some time doing some work.
We are officially buying a house. Unless something horribly wrong is found during the inspection, we’re all ready to go. The offer was accepted today, and it’s been faxed to our loan officer. After I was told that it was accepted, I told Ana and she was just thrilled, but then she said “Daddy, I’m going to miss this place.” That’s when it sunk in; the fact that this place that I live in now, the place I’ve called home for almost three years, will no longer be my home anymore.
Brian from Scheppke Real Estate called today. He’s taking care of our purchase while John is on vacation. He said that the reason the house is so cheap is because they’re settling an estate. That’s great news for us because the people who have to accept the offer have to come in from out of town to look at it. Hopefully they’ll just want to get it over with and we can get moving.
We spent about two hours going over paperwork and signing forms. We made our offer and John had already talked to the seller’s agent about the offer. John seems very confident that they will accept the offer. If they do accept, we will move in around April 20th, which will give us a week to paint and move. We grabbed some pizza and watched The Holy Grail with Erich and Josh.
John (our broker) called. We’re going to buy a house! We discussed how much to offer and I decided to take 2% off of the asking price. I think that should be more than fair. John seems to think that this is a great house as well, and he thought it was clear and away the best house we looked at. We have a meeting at 4:30 today to sign an offer.
The loan officer just called and said that we should make our offer! I’m really excited now.
I just talked to the loan officer at the bank. He’s going to do the paperwork for us to get preapproved. We had already applied and were approved for a loan two years ago, so he just pulled that application and had me give him some updated information.
I can’t believe how long this homebuyer course is. It’s taking forever and we have to do these stupid quizzes after each section. Soon I will be done, and I will be one step closer.