The living room is ready, the bedroom is ready.

Last night, Beki joined the painting workforce! She’ll be in charge of painting one of the bathrooms.

My dad… if he had gone to Mexico… We’d be in big big trouble.

Thanks to everyone helping us with our home.

We’ll get connectivity (cable and internet) tomorrow morning, and right after that… We’ll start moving in!!!

=)

As noted on my last posting, last week was a busy, exciting week.

On Thursday, the walk-through went just fine: We got to our new home, we met the owners (now previous owners), we visited with them for a little bit, and then we left.

On Friday, the closing started at 8am… everything went well. Trace, my dad and I got quite ‘hydrated’ that night, celebrating the event. =)

Starting on Saturday, the hectic part (though exciting) of owning a home started: remove wallpaper, remove wallpaper, remove wallpaper… once I was done with that… I had to start removing the wallpaper’s glue!!! In this case, not the previous owners but the ones before had the nice thought of applying the best cement on earth… I don’t think a tornado could have gone through that glue… It was just annoying!!! =)

We decided to go to Home Depot and get a wallpaper steamer… It really worked. You have to be very careful though: If you heat up the wall paper too much, then you end up peeling the drywall… and that is by no means good news.

Trace started applying that Suede-looking paint in our bedroom… It looks quite nice!! But she says (and I believe it) that it is a pain in the neck to take care of that.

Long story short: tons of work… but we are getting there!

Due to the problems brought up during the inspection, we decided to ask the sellers to drop the price of the house, so we can perform the repairs, rather than them doing that.

They liked the idea. =)

We got a deal, and we signed the Purchase Agreement Amendment, with the new price!

No more paperwork, until the day of the closing: July 28th, 05

Sweet!!!

Well, everything went well with the bidding, the offer and what not.

The inspection took place today at around 4.30pm… nothing big… we just need to fix some minor problems… It is a go though!!!

After going through about 14 or 15 homes, we finally dedided to put a bid on our first home.

The offer was placed yesterday, at around 3pm, and the sellers accepted our offer at around 7pm.

Needless to say: Trace got extremely excited. =)