Searching for a house is a lot of fun. Going to open houses, driving around scouting out neighborhoods, daydreaming about where we might end up and what we’ll do with more than 860 sq/ft. But the stress apparently really kicks in after you find a house and start the buying process.

When I bought my first house, it was pretty stress-free, except I had to make some minor “improvements” to the house myself before VA would approve the loan (it was unoccupied and in rough shape and the owners weren’t about to do anything to it). And it was only $50K.

Now we’re almost having to sign a new addendum every day and spend a lot of time waiting on people who are waiting on someone else to do something. We’re also condensing our closing down to two weeks. Our initial offer was posted on 11/9, and we’ll actually be closing on 11/24. I think that might be a record. We just got the appraisal and are waiting on underwriting to be expedited, and also waiting on the sellers to get appraisal and inspection reports back on the property they’re trying to buy to see if they can close. Any little thing that falls through will delay closing. Ugh! So we’re supposed to close on Wednesday only we don’t know for sure so can’t order refrigerators or utilities or cable…

Then in the meantime, we have to figure out what to do with our current house–sell or rent–and last night I confirmed that the new large living room windows are apparently heavier than the frame can support and so the structure is collapsing under the weight. Hooray! So who knows how much that’ll cost, and we’ll have to fix it before either selling or renting.

Not to be all bitchy, but I’m just blogging about what I know today. 🙂 The moral of this story? Ask me in two weeks. Heh… We want to eventually build, but judging from this, I’d probably wind up in an asylum before it was over.

Posted in uncategorized on November 18th, 2004 by mx5 | RSS 2.0 |