Thursday, June 16, 2011
Engaged!
On June 11th we attended a Giants game in San Francisco. At the game our son, Daren, proposed to his lovely girl friend, Kristie. (Not that you would know it from the text on the jumbo-tron!)
Daren invited 14 friends and family to the game to see this momentous event. Too bad some family members chose to miss all the fun! Their loss.
Found a house...
Of course, the house we ended up buying was not among the houses I mentioned earlier!
It became 'our house' on June 6th....at least it will be easy to remember-- (D-Day!
We loaded up the motor home and trailer and stayed with our friends Ray & Charlotte prior to actually getting into the house.
The seller very kindly left a Pyrex bowl. I had commented on the bowl when we first went to see the house. It is one of a four bowl 'nesting' bowl set that we had received as a wedding gift. I was missing that particular bowl because of a little mishap more than 30 years ago. The seller sold us the bed, table, chairs and other items that had been in the house for 'staging'. (So I didn't bitch about the dirty floors, microwave, oven, refrigerator etc.)
Our realtor, Alejandra Ink (with Access Realty) was awesome. She knows how to communicate, she is pleasant to work with and tireless in her efforts for US to find the right house. Much of the 'work' of closing was accomplished from 700 miles away. Thanks to Alejandra we were kept up-to-date on everything.
The same can't be said for the seller's agent, Roni Ragan. I won't mention the broker here - not their fault she is a semi-worthless human. First of all we did not need to have any contact with the seller's agent. Second of all, she is an emotional twit. Third of all, she was dressed like an escapee from Walmart shopping photos! Someone should have told this woman to get a grip years ago. She yelled at Larry and our friend as she got out of her car. She did say something nice....as in, "I've never met anyone like you". Wasn't that sweet? This altercation occurred 10 minutes before the house documents were recorded. ( And this happened because the guys had parked in the back yard awaiting the notification of the recorded document.) Then she had the audacity to tell our realtor 'your buyer was rude to me'. Hello? We had a witness to her behavior.
Thankfully all else went well. Everyone we contacted about utilities was professional and friendly.
With the help of Ray & Charlotte everything was unloaded and put away before we had to return to K'ville. Also thanks to Ray & Charlotte the house is being checked on while we take care of a little business here.
We had decided not to take much with us....but it still seems like we have way too much to take!
Second load heads south on Sunday. Hoping for a month or so in our new home before heading back for (hopefully) the last load.
It became 'our house' on June 6th....at least it will be easy to remember-- (D-Day!
We loaded up the motor home and trailer and stayed with our friends Ray & Charlotte prior to actually getting into the house.
The seller very kindly left a Pyrex bowl. I had commented on the bowl when we first went to see the house. It is one of a four bowl 'nesting' bowl set that we had received as a wedding gift. I was missing that particular bowl because of a little mishap more than 30 years ago. The seller sold us the bed, table, chairs and other items that had been in the house for 'staging'. (So I didn't bitch about the dirty floors, microwave, oven, refrigerator etc.)
Our realtor, Alejandra Ink (with Access Realty) was awesome. She knows how to communicate, she is pleasant to work with and tireless in her efforts for US to find the right house. Much of the 'work' of closing was accomplished from 700 miles away. Thanks to Alejandra we were kept up-to-date on everything.
The same can't be said for the seller's agent, Roni Ragan. I won't mention the broker here - not their fault she is a semi-worthless human. First of all we did not need to have any contact with the seller's agent. Second of all, she is an emotional twit. Third of all, she was dressed like an escapee from Walmart shopping photos! Someone should have told this woman to get a grip years ago. She yelled at Larry and our friend as she got out of her car. She did say something nice....as in, "I've never met anyone like you". Wasn't that sweet? This altercation occurred 10 minutes before the house documents were recorded. ( And this happened because the guys had parked in the back yard awaiting the notification of the recorded document.) Then she had the audacity to tell our realtor 'your buyer was rude to me'. Hello? We had a witness to her behavior.
Thankfully all else went well. Everyone we contacted about utilities was professional and friendly.
With the help of Ray & Charlotte everything was unloaded and put away before we had to return to K'ville. Also thanks to Ray & Charlotte the house is being checked on while we take care of a little business here.
We had decided not to take much with us....but it still seems like we have way too much to take!
Second load heads south on Sunday. Hoping for a month or so in our new home before heading back for (hopefully) the last load.
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