[quote=CA renter]
Congratulations! Enjoy your new home, drboom! :)[/quote]
Thanks, CAR. It has been a long time coming.
Just to keep my Pigg credentials intact, let me say for the record that I will induce vomiting if I hear one more person say “it’s a great time to buy”. I’m convinced that most of my 20% down payment “equity” will evaporate over the next couple of years.
The “take it or leave it” sales terms the OP and I have to put up with are a real treat, too. In my case, the house is in relatively good shape but there is an unbelieveable amount of crap in the yard, the workshop, under the house (wine bottles, yay), in the attic (crazy aunt? haven’t looked closely), etc. This is the first resale for this house (built 1952), so stuff has piled up for decades. I’ll be working my tail off for the next few weeks just to get it ready for us to move in.
But as I drink my coffee and wait for the County Recorder to do their thing, I gotta say I’ve been this excited about very few things in my life. My kids (3yo and 1yo) will finally escape apartment prison, I’ll finally have a proper office/shop, and my wife and I can finally stop making improvements to other people’s property.
Sorry about hijacking the thread; we will now return to our regularly scheduled Tales of REO Extortion starring Vincent Price as the evil Asset Manager.
