Thursday, August 2, 2012

We Bought a House!

As most of you know by now, we bought the house we were under contract for. Not without any issues of course, of which I will give you the short version of in this post.
We put in our request for repairs and the seller agreed to all but one thing, which we accepted. This is were things began to get more interesting and we were thankful we had a 44 day closing instead of only 30 days.
The crew that was doing repairs started a week later than they were supposed to. We came out one day to get measurements of rooms and also to see the progress and at that time were impressed with what the crew was doing. They were also doing somethings we didn't ask for, but had come up on the inspection report. After the they were done working, we came out again to check things out along with our inspector, only to find things we asked for hadn't been completed.
They hadn't done anything noticeable with the crawlspace issues and hadn't fixed all the rotting wood and other things like that. So David called up the selling agent and we were told that they would have people out there to finish it soon. They did everything but the crawl space problems, which we kept getting the run around on. "The ductwork guy was supposed to do that." And things like that.
The week of closing date, (April 9th), we did a final walk through. Not everything had been fixed once again. At this point, Tim and I felt like we should go ahead and sign the final walk through paperwork, and get our own people in to fix the things that were left.
Closing day dawned. Excitement and nervousness filled us up both throughout the day. Then, just two hours or so before scheduled closing, we thought we weren't going to be able to close due to some things that we had just found out we still needed to do. David rescheduled our closing for an hour later originally scheduled. And then we sat at least thirty minutes before signing even begun as they were needing finalized paperwork on things that were being done at the same time.
We did start signing paperwork, even though things had not been HUD approved and final paperwork was still being sent in. Thirty minutes later, everything had come through and had been finalized! We were signing our last signatures before the keys!
Hands were shaken, keys were handed over, and Tim and I were home owners!!
We made phone calls on the ride back to the apartment. Then changed clothes, got Scottie and cleaning supplies and headed out to the house. That night, thanks to Publix, we had a picnic dinner of friend chicken and fixings in our new kitchen!