Going Out of My Mind
So, we are buying a home. Every single day last week and the week before we were busy doing paperwork and then faxing it here and faxing it there. If I never fax another form, letter, or bank statement it will be too soon!!Then came the big day. You know the one where you get a bottle of champagne, get out the special glasses, and drive the three hours to the new town of your dreams....making sure you drive by the new house that in a just a couple of hours will be YOURS!! Then you go to the title company and sign so many papers that you get cramps in your hand. Well, part of that was true....the house is still there, still has a nice yard with beautiful plants just about to bloom, and has daffodils (my Love's favorite flower) just out the back door. BUT, even though we signed all the paperwork required and even had to go back to the office to sign some more papers, by close of business on Friday the house was still not ours.
Now you might ask yourself how this could happen. And you would be right. That's exactly the question I asked myself. Well, if all the people you are depending on to do THEIR jobs actually DO their jobs then things happen as you would think they should.
BUT NO!!!
Some one person along the path of all that has to happen when one buys a home didn't follow through with their specific job and at 5 pm on Friday we looked at each other and shook our heads in bewilderment after my Love spent the afternoon on the phone trying to track down the money that was supposed to be wired to the Title company. It wasn't in his account. It wasn't in my account. It appeared that it wasn't at the bank and it certainly wasn't at the Title company. So where was it?
So we have been wondering all weekend if we will actually be able to let the cleaning crew in to the house on Wednesday morning, the carpet cleaners in on Thursday morning, and be able to have three trucks of household belongings delivered on Friday and the following Monday. I have already had to move these appointments once because the Title company didn't get some of the needed info in time and we had to do an extension for another week.
I'm thinking that it is cruel and unusual punishment to mess up a very important transaction on a Friday....in fact I'm thinking it should be considered criminal...LOL Well, that might be a little extreme but right now we are sitting here not sure if we should be packing or not.
Ah, life....up one minute and down the next. That's what it is, a roller coaster with twists and turns and occasionally a person even falls off and we are stunned.....but that is for another blog.
May your Monday and mine be as we are hoping it will be or....perhaps even better,
Janie
