...8 Days Later

Today I actually closed on this house. Apparently when you, or rather the people selling this house, hire a cheap lawyer to file your bankruptcy they don't do it right and you might end up with a $3,000 dollar lean on the title of your house when you try to sell it. Just make sure you don't figure that out until two hours before the sale is scheduled to close.

That's pretty much what happened last week in a nutshell. So there was this $3,000 bill hanging over the whole deal that I certainly wasn't going to pay. Long story short I reluctantly agreed to pay a smaller portion of it (I know, I know, I shouldn't, but give me a break I wanted in).

Monday afternoon we finally rescheduled closing for 3:30 pm on Tuesday. There were some lingering paperwork issues all the way to the end. In fact I was told closing was still uncertain while I was driving to the closing.

I've said all that to say this: The process of buying a house wasn't very much fun.

On the bright side, at the end of closing I was handed a cashier's check for the exact amount that I had reluctantly agreed to pay for the portion of the $3,000 lean. I don't know exactly why, for some reason I wasn't inclined to ask too many questions about why I was being given money, but I guess the numbers crunched in my favor.

Then I get to the new place to find out that the sellers had the electricity disconnected. So instead of simply transferring it to my name I had to fax (really? fax?) all this stuff to Xcel and hope that they get around to turning my power back on before the weekend, which includes freedom Friday this week.

Anyway, that's the update, I'm in, but in the dark. Amish projects only for now.

In the meantime, here's a random picture of the rotten part of the floor in my kitchen, hopefully you'll see documentation of it being fixed in the next week or two. Enjoy.