The Ball is Rolling

Things are starting to move along with the house. We met with our lawyer today. We got a lot of great information and the next steps that we need to take. The first thing that he told us to get was an official offer to purchase from one of our prospective buyers. He also told us that because of our somewhat tricky situation we should insist on having a move-out day in the contract.

For reference, we cannot get a finalized mortgage for a new house until we either get a non-conditional contract from our new district or our first paycheck. If it is the latter, that won’t be until mid-September, which means that our closing date would be then at the very earliest.

When we got home from that meeting, M called both of our buyers and explained that we’d like to stay in the house until September 30th. We could close before that, and pay a month (or two) of rent, but we’d have to keep our stuff here. We’d be gone, because our jobs start well before then, though.  One of the buyers was 100% against that, and told us that it would have to be September 1st. The other one was very understanding about the situation, and said that they could live with waiting to move in until October. For the record, both M and I REALLY hope that it will be sooner than that.

Well, we accepted the second offer! 😃

That means when we go down for our paperwork tomorrow and look at some houses, we can put conditional offers in on anything that we’d like. That is a huge sigh of relief; now even if we don’t offer on anything tomorrow, it won’t feel like wasted time.

Speaking of heading down tomorrow (and following up on my last entry)…

I spoke with Mom today. She called twice and sent me a message early in the day, but I didn’t get back to her until later this afternoon. I wasn’t exactly sure that I even wanted to talk to her, but I felt like I had to for the other people in the family who have stakes in Grandpa’s house. So I called her back, and she said that the realtor she had come in to do an informal appraisal told her that it was worth the original price that she’d told me.

What the fuck. She’d put me through all of this stress for nothing. We’re right back where we started, on that front.

I did tell her that we weren’t going to be staying at her house tomorrow night, though. And that the boys weren’t going to be staying with her after this weekend’s birthday party for my niece. I couldn’t get a read on how that made her feel. I’m not trying to be vindictive with all of this, but I feel like the last 4 days have really strained the relationship, and I need some space from her. For the next two weeks, I’ll call her if I have business regarding the house and our intentions with it, but that will likely be it.

I am very excited to have the ball rolling with all of this. Overall, I feel like I’m in a much better place today than I was all weekend.