Friday, May 23, 2008
one week jitters
this time next week, we will hopefully be new homeowners. i say "hopefully" because there have been a whole slew of things that has happened that has made me lose faith in human beings, in general.
the whole process has been a real struggle, and the most recent thing that has happened (which is stressing me out) is that the sellers' agent asked us if we could push our final walk through AFTER settlement. i've never bought a house before, but i'm fairly certain that it doesn't happen that way. i think the buyers need to walk through the house beforehand so that the house is in the condition they expect it to be in, with all of the seller's crap removed from the house for the walk through.
of course, poyu responded to the seller's agent, "uh, i'll talk to my clients, but i'm fairly certain they are going to say NO." (duh).
being the nice people we are, we are allowing them to finish moving the morning of settlement, and push back the walk through and settlement. so they are supposedly going to have movers come at 6am and hopefully be out of the house by 10am, so that we could have walk through at 10:15am, and then settlement at 11am. i'm very dubious about the entire moving process, because i've moved many times in my life (and been part of other's moving process) and i feel like i have a good grasp of how long it takes to move.
i'm not doubting the fact that it can get done in 4 hours, but honestly, when moving, you usually end up taking longer than you anticipated, no matter how much extra cushion time you add. and the fact that we KNOW that the seller's lady person is going to be out of town the night before, doesn't give me much confidence that things will be packed and ready to be moved out by the time the movers come (if they even come on time).
i'm concerned they are going to leave all their crap behind for us to get rid of because they didn't do it ahead of time. i'm worried because i'm going to feel rushed during the walk through, because we have to make the settlement at 11am (downtown). i'm stressed because if their move doesn't go as they planned, then we might be sitting around waiting for the sellers to finish moving, and then everything would get pushed back several hours. i'm annoyed at the seller for not having thought this plan all the way through ahead of time, thus affecting everyone's time (buyers, agents, titling company, etc). i'm nervous because a large chunk of the money we saved up will very soon be gone, and because for the past 6 months, we (me, cavin AND crosby) have grown comfortable living under my parents' roof and we're going to have to acclimate again (hopefully this will be the last time we move for a while).
i'm trying to think of everything we need to do to make settlement go as smoothly as possible. but not having bought a house before, i really have no idea what to expect. i really hope that things go as planned, because if they don't, knowing my temper, there might just be words exchanged between myself and the seller. watch out!
the whole process has been a real struggle, and the most recent thing that has happened (which is stressing me out) is that the sellers' agent asked us if we could push our final walk through AFTER settlement. i've never bought a house before, but i'm fairly certain that it doesn't happen that way. i think the buyers need to walk through the house beforehand so that the house is in the condition they expect it to be in, with all of the seller's crap removed from the house for the walk through.
of course, poyu responded to the seller's agent, "uh, i'll talk to my clients, but i'm fairly certain they are going to say NO." (duh).
being the nice people we are, we are allowing them to finish moving the morning of settlement, and push back the walk through and settlement. so they are supposedly going to have movers come at 6am and hopefully be out of the house by 10am, so that we could have walk through at 10:15am, and then settlement at 11am. i'm very dubious about the entire moving process, because i've moved many times in my life (and been part of other's moving process) and i feel like i have a good grasp of how long it takes to move.
i'm not doubting the fact that it can get done in 4 hours, but honestly, when moving, you usually end up taking longer than you anticipated, no matter how much extra cushion time you add. and the fact that we KNOW that the seller's lady person is going to be out of town the night before, doesn't give me much confidence that things will be packed and ready to be moved out by the time the movers come (if they even come on time).
i'm concerned they are going to leave all their crap behind for us to get rid of because they didn't do it ahead of time. i'm worried because i'm going to feel rushed during the walk through, because we have to make the settlement at 11am (downtown). i'm stressed because if their move doesn't go as they planned, then we might be sitting around waiting for the sellers to finish moving, and then everything would get pushed back several hours. i'm annoyed at the seller for not having thought this plan all the way through ahead of time, thus affecting everyone's time (buyers, agents, titling company, etc). i'm nervous because a large chunk of the money we saved up will very soon be gone, and because for the past 6 months, we (me, cavin AND crosby) have grown comfortable living under my parents' roof and we're going to have to acclimate again (hopefully this will be the last time we move for a while).
i'm trying to think of everything we need to do to make settlement go as smoothly as possible. but not having bought a house before, i really have no idea what to expect. i really hope that things go as planned, because if they don't, knowing my temper, there might just be words exchanged between myself and the seller. watch out!
2 Comments:
Anonymous said...
aie
Unknown said...
Lisa and I are going through the same business. On top of blowing all our cash on a house, it seems as though we have to blow more and more just for fun. Every jerk wants to get a piece of my moolah. If we all survive this, a celebration is in order.