03.31.2004
I'd like to thank the academy
WE HAVE A HOUSE!
Okay, got that out of the way. Actually that's all I really planned on saying. The settlement thing was unbelievably easy. The interest rate, as I said in a comment yesterday, is lower than we expected. Our real estate agent gave us gift certificates for food, which was a surprise; we felt like we should be giving her stuff, not the other way around. (If you're looking for an excellent real estate agent in Montgomery County, Maryland, call Pamela Pietri with Long and Foster's Rockville/King Farm office. If you need the number leave a comment.)
Obviously we're pretty happy. Haven't had to start making the payments yet. We won't move in for another month, the previous owners are renting back from us for April. Consequently we actually got money back from our deposit instead of having to pay extra at settlement, so it was pretty weird: we walked away with a house, a check, gift certificates for a restaurant, AND a champagne bottle full of jelly beans (from the lender.) For now it feels like we won the lottery; come May 1st I imagine I'll be nibbling on my bread and cheese, scrawling weblog entries using a key on an old piece of plywood and remembering when i could afford internet access.
So it's possible that the roadblock will be lifted here and I'll swing back into more frequent updates. Then again that's not a sure thing. I've been keeping busy with lotsa lots, and somehow with this 30 year loan hanging over our heads I feel a wee bit more motivated to do my job. I do have some things I feel a little bit of an urge to write about -- including the superstition thing I was rambling about in the comment I mentioned a minute ago.
Speaking of which -- Bess, thanks for the occasional calming words in the comments over the past month. And for mentally jumping up and down at 1:30 this afternoon, which was pretty much exactly when we were saying, "I don't get it, why are you giving us a check? What do we do with this Cashier's Check we brought? Don't we have to give you anything?"
Cripes. I'll stop gushing now; all this happiness is not very much like me, and I'm pretty sure that means I'll get hit by a truck later today.
