Patience is a virtue

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Getting so antsy about getting out of this house and moved into our own place!  We're supposed to close next Tuesday.  Frustrating trying to pack and homeschool at the same time, too, but kids won't let me get away with skipping lessons in order to pack.  They enjoy school and don't want to ever take breaks, which is good that they enjoy it but bad in that they don't want to ever stop.  Packing is slow going.  I've almost packed everything that we don't use every single day, but itching to get the rest of the packing done at the same time.  Dishwasher and the garbage disposal are not working again (though they've not been used since the supposed "repair" was done) and keep flooding the floor if someone forgets and uses the right side of the kitchen sink, thus making it even harder to clean and pack.  We won't be able to do all the moving the day of closing either... probably just go clean and take houseplants and the parakeet over (so I can clean up all the leaves and feathers that get left behind and regenerated if their sources stay here.)  The next day, I can take a load or two over with the kids and maybe one after DH gets off work.  I'm thinking of borrowing my uncle's flatbed trailer and loading it with the bigger heavier boxes and hauling them over maybe with some help from my mom, and then renting a u-haul on next Thursday night or something.  My cousin has volunteered to come help next Friday, and hopefully by then we'll get it all moved and get out of this place for good!  Can't wait... am so impatient to git 'er done!     Feel like a kid right before vacation or Christmas, with all the anticipation that comes with, but am supposed to be the grown-up and act dignified about the whole deal.  What can you do?   

[glenn kangiser]

Just keep plugging away at it, Homey.   It'll eventually get here.

[rwanders]

Odd things about moving----as soon as you decide to do it all your stuff starts multiplying like rabbits in your closets and drawers. And when you do get it all packed up the old place always seems kind of sad---like it knows it's being left behind.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Dogs have already figured out that something is up and are freaked out if we g anywhere...we're gonna have to take them wit us when we start hauling stuff.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Also, everything for closing seems to be going so smoothly that it is a little scary.  Yesterday my realtor dropped by and brought her great-niece to play with my girls, and she and I both think that if anything will go wrong, it will be that the elderly woman who lives in the house won't get moved out in time to close. She has LOTS of stuff (every square inch of wall is picture frame, and there's wall-to-wall furniture, and she's going round and round with her son about keeping EVERYTHING because she doesn't want to get rid of any of it.)  When we were there last week, she had not packed one thing, and I drove by later, and the sunroom was obviously still cram-packed full of stuff. There is just this coming weekend left for her son to help her move, so we're getting a little nervous about it.  I'm thinking about making up an excuse (measuring rooms/windows/etc.) to go over later this week and see if there is any sign that she is really getting ready for the move, and if not, I'm going to call her realtor and make sure it is really going to happen on time.  The barn and garage are pretty full too.  I don't want to be homeless come Feb28th!   

[NM_Shooter]

If she is not out, start charging rent, plus the cost of your hotel room.

-f-

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

The lady told her realtor today that she would be out this Saturday sometime.  Her whole family is coming to help her move.  Whew.  Now to deal with the mortgage company... the closer on the house decided to take a vacation or something this week after telling me that she'd call me Monday after the appraisal, now they're claiming that they still don't have the appraisal (which was done Monday PM).  Anyone my realtor talks to gives her the "well it isn't really my job" crap.  We have to have closing docs by Friday to present to the company.

[considerations]

Oh lordy lordy do i hate the mortage process.  I feel for you....patience IS a virtue....that i aspire to but seldom achieve. 

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Oh lordy lordy do i hate the mortage process.  I feel for you....patience IS a virtue....that i aspire to but seldom achieve. 

you and me both!  I can be patient with animals and with my kids.  If ten thousand times my daughter writes the letter "R" backwards, I can gently correct her every time, but I'm ready to throttle the closer from the mortgage company who told me that she would call/email me Monday sometime with the appraisal results.  Today when my realtor talked to the guy at the mortgage co., he told her that I'd said it was OK as long as we closed before the end of the month.  I had actually told him that we had to close on time or as close as possible because we had to be completely out of this house and have the key turned in a week from Saturday.  He told me that it would be no problem to close on time.

[muldoon]

The mortgage process, yuck.  I remember it as well.  But it sounds like it's all working out pretty well overall, almost like it was meant to be.  Take the time to enjoy the blessing as well and try not to stress over the details.   

The good news is In 2 years you wont remember the guys name who closed it, or the title company, or any of this.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Depends.  If they're good and get everything done on time and deal honestly with me, I'll remember their first name and that I liked them.   If they're bad, I'll remember their first name, last name, middle initial, title, boss' name, the conversation I had with their boss.... I still remember the banker from our first ever home loan.  She was dishonest (blatantly lied to me on her cell phone one day that she hadn't been in her office all day to get the message that I would be coming in at 11:00, but all her coworkers told me that she'd just left the office not five or ten minutes before I got there) and lazy and we almost didn't even close on time because she wasn't doing her job.  I went to her boss and told them what was going on (it was a local bank) and I just "happened" to show her a letter to the BBB in my lending folder by accident when I opened it up to get something out.  We closed on time.

[considerations]

I won't even begin to describe the BS (Bait and Switch, among other things) I went through with the construction loan and roll over to a mortgage I went through with the house in Oregon. 

Suffice it to say that building this cabin paycheck by paycheck is a direct result of the ridiculous and incredibly stressful processes I went through to get in and get out of that house, much as I loved it. 

I would not willingly do that again, and hope I'm never faced with the necessity.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Whew, looks like we're going to close on time!  Waiting for a HUD statement today to present to DH's company, but even if we don't get it in time for them to pay their part up front, we can close on time and wait for reimbursement.  The lending part is done.  Now, on to packing.  The kids are still not feeling up to par (neither am I for that matter) but stuff has got to be done.  The rental company that we are leasing from wanted to come show the house yesterday (with all of five minutes' warning).  I told them to come on over and smell the vomit, but that they would most likely catch whatever bug we all have because it is highly contagious!  They decided they could wait to show the house.  I'm glad they didn't come because the house was a wreck with stuff all pulled out of the cabinets and boxes and packing materials everywhere.  Plus I was running around stringy-haired and still wearing pajamas and trying to keep the kids from throwing up on the carpet.  After 48 hours with virtually no sleep, I am feeling a lot better than I was... unfortunately, the cedar pollen is high, so I've got allergy issues going on, to boot.

Well, off to finish packing.  Don't have that much left to do, but do need to do serious cleaning and start calling around about borrowing a trailer.