Friday, June 20, 2008

Buying a House

Its a crazy thing, buying a house. I've never been through it before.  Even more crazy? Doing it all while Pat is in Germany.  Its been going like this:
Realtor emails or faxes Pat the papers he needs to sign and then Pat scans and sends them to me. I print, sign, scan and send back to realtor or lender or inspection people or...

At least I've learned how to scan to PDF's and email. For that I am so grateful. What a chore it would be to drag all my kids around to just go sign my name a few times...multiple times a day!

But its getting done. We should close July 17th. We'll stay here in this cozy Townhouse for at least another month while we do some fix-ups around the new (to us) house. Although I wish it were now. This townhouse is no treat. Sure its has more square footage than our Phoenix house. But its all divided up in small spaces. Absolutely no room at all for any running around - or skipping - or even "big steps!" There's also no front or backyard at all. Luckily, we live near the end of a "circle" as the boys call it. So we can walk a few houses down and the kids can ride their tricycles around and around...in the street! Awesome! I can hear it now, "But you said we could play in the street!" Also it echoes quite a bit. Its so loud. Sad for the older couple that we share a wall with. They do not like us one bit. In fact a couple of days ago, we all went out through the garage to go to "the circle" and spent a little time in the garage gathering things to play with. Well, this older couple were in their garage doing whatever and when they heard/saw us in the garage - they shut their door immediately. I would like to think that I'm just being paranoid. But when the man is walking his dogs - that miraculously we never hear - probably cause our kids are too loud - he never returns a smile or hello. Good thing this is only temporary or I feel their would be a fight to have us evicted! For real!  Pat hasn't had to work from here yet. When he gets back from his traveling...good luck to him on getting anything done since he spends a majority of his time on conference calls. Cheers.

Thats the townhouse. More to come on the real house...

6 comments:

Bob and Danya said...

Such a treat! I vote for you to go to the mall more. Then you can buy things and avoid the neighbors. LOL!

Sassy said...

Hang on sugar...won't be long, the way these days are flying...what does your hubby do for work? Germany is beautiful...too bad you can't be with him...but hey look at it this way...look how good you are getting on the computer...

Aaron.Shara.Abby said...

Oh man, sounds crazy and I don't envy your townhouse situations. Hope thins go better!

Greg and Tammy said...

Can't wait to hear more about the home! Good luck with everything!

Anonymous said...

wow. that would be stressful. how fun to be in your house finally. I'm glad someone knows my pain about moving twice. ughhhh

CF Is Not Forever said...

It's always such a mess buying and or selling! Best of luck!