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We got the house. We closed on Monday July 31, 2006 and since that day have been working late hours doing prep work. My wife has removed all the wallpaper in the house. We then sanded and puttied all the the walls. After that was almost done, we decided to remove the wall between the master bedroom closet and the coat closet in the living room.  We took the door out of the living room and put up a wall and now have a walk-in-closet.  It’s not large, but it’s more space utilization than what we had.

We’ve got several before and after pics…it’s just a matter of finding time to post them up. Finally got around to it, after 3 years

We made our offer for fixes to the seller and they conter-offered with 1 less fix. We accepted the offer.  They are supposedly having a yard sale tomorrow, July 22.  I’ll probably go over there around 0600 or 0700 and see if they are selling the lawnmower I’ve asked them for.

Yesterday I called Travelers insurance and received a quote for both home and auto, and by going with Travelers I will save $505 a year over my current policy with MetLife.

Now I have to call the utilities (gas, water, electrical), and advise them I will be transferring my service to the new address on July 31. My Realtor is going to ask the sellers not to turn any of the utilities off, but just to advise that it will be transferred to me on the 31st.

The inspector did a full inspection and only found minor problems.  Doors that needed to be adjusted slightly for better opening and closing.  The most major thing was the service cable had duct tape on it and we assumed it was exposed.  The selling Realtor allowed us to remove the duct tape and we found that there was no problem.  So we wrote up about $400 worth of repairs such as fixing two holes in the bedroom wall, replacing the exhaust fan in the bathroom, etc.  We’re going to go back tonight and inspect a sag in the roof.  The inspector reported that he saw no signs of leaks, but the more we think about it, the more concerned we become.  I don’t think there is a problem. I imagine it’s probably just a loose rafter.  So we’ll find out tonight.  We will submit our repair list to the sellers and hopefully they will agree to fix them all.

It’s been a long 2 months now that we’ve been looking for a house. We had a realtor friend of ours set us up on a Georgia realtor board, so that we got up to the minute listing of any new houses.

Last Thursday night my wife and mother-in-law were driving past a house my mother-in-law had grown up in…and it had a for sale sign in the yard. Just 1 week prior, my wife had told me she wanted to buy that house and wished it would come on the market. So, we immediately called the realtor and setup a time that night to go look at it. We checked everything out and loved the house. The only problem was that I was looking for something around $85,000 and this house was $109,900. Friday morning I called my loan originator and she ran the numbers and assured me we could make the payment. So we took the realtor to lunch Friday afternoon and signed a contract offering them their asking price with them paying 3% toward closing. Monday we signed all the mortgage papers and made it official. At 2 pm today we’re scheduled to have a full home inspection. As long as nothing major is found today, we will sign all the final papers July 31st and the house with be officially ours.