Diary- Closing Day

7:00AM- Nick wakes up after three hours of sleep to head to the closing. We weren't planning to go, but we want things to go as smoothly as possible, so its probably better if he is there. I sleep.

8:30AM- Good thing Nick went to the closing. I get a call from our realtor telling me that she is at home sick and that she has dropped her phone in the toilet and so is unable to get to her address book. She wants to know how the closing is going, I tell her that I'm not there and that I don't know. I call Nick, everything is going well at the closing.

9:00 AM- Thank god for Craigslist. I find a last minute moving service to help us unload the truck later today. We are so bruised and tired from loading the truck and have absolutely no desire to unload it.

9:30 AM- Nick, realizing that our realtor has the only set of keys that are not currently locked inside the house, calls me in a panic... how are we going to get the keys to the buyer.

9:31 AM- Call our realtor.. can't get her b/c cell phone is dead...

10:15 AM- finally hear from our realtor. She can either bring the keys to the closing or drop them off with the buyer's agent's office. Problem solved.

10:30 AM- The closing is over, the house is officially sold. SWEET!!!!!!

12:30 PM- Time for our walk-through. We find many things amiss, not least of which are the crappy temporary window screens they've provided to us. The cats could totally just knock those down with one paw and jump right out. Also, they have failed to properhy provide power to the washer and dryer, as we had asked. We are really annoyed. GRRRR

1:00 PM- Open gift from our mortgage broker. Its a serving dish from Crate and Barrel. Its wrapped in probably twenty feet of wierd paper bubble-ish wrap stuff. Our realtor also gives us free tickets to community theater in Forest Park. They perform outside in the county forest preserve. People bring booze, have a picnic, and watch a play, SWEET!

1:30PM- Arrive at second closing. Realize that we have no legal legs to stand on regarding the window screens. I am highly annoyed. But, we will ask for a credit for the wiring situation around the washer and dryer.

2:30PM- Sign LOTS of papers... lots and lots and lots... Then, sit and wait for closing to finalize. Am amazed by the hundreds of dollars of bullshit fees involved in buying a house. I wonder how I can get the "pay Jessica 20$, just because I said so" line added to closing charges. The sellers finally agree to give us $100 credit for the wiring situation at the washer/dryer

3:30PM- At last, I am officially a home owner! It will take a while for this to totally sink in. We get a ride to pick up our truck, drive truck full of stuff to house.

5:30PM- Start unloading little stuff from truck. Call some friends to come over and help (which really ends up meaning, drink beer, play with our friend's new puppy poodle, and talk while telling the movers where to put stuff, which is the best way to move, let me tell you)

9:00PM- Movers arrive. Turns out that it takes two very strong and very motivated guys with an appliance dolly an hour and a half to unload the entire truck, which it had taken us 10 hours to load. That was the best $200 (plus tips in beer) I've spent in a long time.

11:30PM- kick our friends out, drive truck back to truck rental place, have a really dumb conversation with a chick from Penske Truck Rental on the phone regarding weather or not we can drop the truck off tonight rather than tomorrow.

12:00pm- Truck is back, we drive the pick-up back to the house, stumble inside, fall asleep on the bare mattress on the guest bed downstairs. Fall asleep immediately. Sooo tired, but happy.


more to come
(don't have internet at the house yet, major pain in ass)