Monday, August 25, 2008

The Final House Timeline

July 19 (Evening) - Enter MLS
July 20 (Afternoon) - Open house
July 22 (Late Evening) - Full price offer (with closing cost concession)
July 23 (Afternoon) - Accept offer
July 29 (Afternoon) - Inspection
July 31 (Afternoon) - Inspection response sent to me - Pain begins.
July 31 (Afternoon) - Got a useless low bid.
August 3 (Afternoon) - Got the worst estimate ever on the sewer and almost died.
August 4 (Afternoon) - Got a decent bid from Budget Sewer
August 6 (afternoon) - Bounced the ball back into their court.
August 9 (Morning) - Began fussing over language of "joint connection w/neighbor"
August 11 (Morning) - Sewer work begins
August 14 (Morning) - Paid for sewer at 9:00 am; Signed documents at 10 am
August 15 (All Day) - Moved(almost) everything out
August 17 (Evening) - Sold Ikea Closet
August 18 (Evening) - Went over to the house for the last time; Said good-bye
August 19 (Evening) - Officially Closed; Closed WSG, Electric, and Gas accounts
August 20 - (Afternoon) Got check in mail
August 23 - (Morning) Deposited check
August 26 - (Evening) Will start investing funds

signs of the apocalypse... or at least hard economic times.

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