After one buyer could not get his loan a second and third appeared. One bid more than asking price and got the place. THEN they, their agent and the lender fiddled around until the very last moment and announced that they had to have assurance that the house was above flood level, or they had to have insurance. They could not make closing date---got an engineer out with his electronics, read the elevation off the satellites--got closing clearance, too late to close on time.
Furniture was gone, Barb was gone with the furniture (she had to let them into the new place) and I spent one night on an air mattress in an empty house. Fuming of course. Next day my own agent informed me that they were penciled in for Friday, I went by the closer and signed the papers, left for Ark. Spent the next day trying to unload my van ...the movers missed an entire closet full of clothing, and there were some vital papers and a few things I did not trust to the movers. I must have looked like the Joad's kinfolk as I rolled down the highway with a big potted rose in the passenger seat.
I got a fitful night of sleep Thursday, Friday I did what I could to straighten out the things we moved, got my driver's license---about 5PM the agent called--all done, the $ will be wired to my account on Monday. A few hundred dollars more than I expected.
Now all Barb and I have to do is decide what to keep and what to give to the thrift shops, trash or stack on top of something else.
Oh, yes; I learned that I cannot get my hunting and fishing licenses until sixty days have passed, but I can then get a too-danged-old lifetime combination license for $35 and change. New years eve, here I come.
Now all I have to do (aside from settling into this place) is find a place to garden.
ox
Furniture was gone, Barb was gone with the furniture (she had to let them into the new place) and I spent one night on an air mattress in an empty house. Fuming of course. Next day my own agent informed me that they were penciled in for Friday, I went by the closer and signed the papers, left for Ark. Spent the next day trying to unload my van ...the movers missed an entire closet full of clothing, and there were some vital papers and a few things I did not trust to the movers. I must have looked like the Joad's kinfolk as I rolled down the highway with a big potted rose in the passenger seat.
I got a fitful night of sleep Thursday, Friday I did what I could to straighten out the things we moved, got my driver's license---about 5PM the agent called--all done, the $ will be wired to my account on Monday. A few hundred dollars more than I expected.
Now all Barb and I have to do is decide what to keep and what to give to the thrift shops, trash or stack on top of something else.
Oh, yes; I learned that I cannot get my hunting and fishing licenses until sixty days have passed, but I can then get a too-danged-old lifetime combination license for $35 and change. New years eve, here I come.
Now all I have to do (aside from settling into this place) is find a place to garden.
ox
