Moving date moved... Again-cory

I finally did it. With July 1 approaching and no news, I told the tenants I would not be out in time for their original move in date to get the house ready. I told them I would give them August free for their inconvenience. She wanted $600 for paint. I was firm. I will not pay for paint. I was already paying for landscaping and a move in ready cleaning. It will probably cost me $1000 by the time we are done and out, just to have the house ready for them.

The landscaping is running me a little under $500 with 5 yards of the bark and the crew to spread it, front and back yard. The weeds were pulled and I bought some landscaping weed suppressant material for the boarders so the weeds will have a hard time coming back. It will look lovely. Eighteen yard bags of debris are waiting for garbage pick up day.

I trimmed the trees back from the fence and the driveway. I wanted to make sure there would not be any issues down the road. I fertilized all the plants and put lawn stuff on the lawn with weed killer.

The cleaning service will come in once we are moved so I haven't been able to get that done with all our stuff still in the house. It will be easy once we are gone. I will try to have as much done as possible prior, but we really need to be out of the way.

As soon as we have news we are lined up to move. My movers have been great. So far they have been available for every new date I requested. June 27 came and went, but I had rescheduled for the 6th of July. As we approached that date, I moved us to the 11 of July. I am about to ask again if he has other openings later in the month. I am trying to stay two weeks ahead on the off chance we get news on the house and can close.

What the hang up is or why this takes so long, I have no idea. All I feel is animosity. It makes me want to go off the grid, never use a bank again. They are flexing their muscle and there is nothing we can do about it.

Meanwhile, I went on Craigslist and started shopping new used appliances for the kitchen. I will let you know how that goes after I get what I want. Wouldn't want any competition for these really wonderful items I am finding. Gas kitchen is going to be impressive.

The smaller house came back to us and told us they would accept our offer after all if we were still interested. I told the realtor that we really wanted the big house. We would have had to do remodeling on the small house to make it big enough for us. Convert the garage to living space and add a detatched garage. The kitchen was dated and not gas either. By the time we were done we would have spent almost as much as the big house is costing us now to buy, and still had a smaller house in not quite as consistantly nice a neighborhood.

It was a hard call, though. We could be done and moved if we had gone with the smaller house. Tom is a Leo and he wants the show house. This is a great opportunity to get a steal on a house if we are patient. But I am stressing the patient. I hope every day to hear news.

Positive Vibes, Baby.