Keys Please

Friday 10/30/09
7:00 we got up, made our way to Lowes to purchase a new toilet and waited patiently for an expected call around 10:00 informing us that we could pick up our keys. All the forms were signed and ready to go and all they just needed to be entered into the county registry. 10:00 rolled by without a call. Then the usual hustle ensued.. Long story short we had to sign three forms, one for the lender, and two for the title company that had either been missed or had gone missing. To add to the stress it was close to noon and we couldn’t s get a clear answer on whether or not the selling bank had signed off on the sale. They are on the east coast, time was ticking. Sometime after 2:00 we got word that the sellers had indeed signed off and all of the paperwork was ready to go, and that that we were next in line for the final checking process at Wells Fargo. Finally around 4 something we heard that our title guy had submitted all of our forms and now all we had to wait for was for our forms to be registered. Around 5:15 we got a call from our awesome agent that the keys were ours!!! Time to celebrate right, nope, time to get to work.

From 5:18 until midnight we worked on removing all of the carpet and rotten floor mats (three bedrooms, hallway and living rm), removing the non-working toilet and all of the floor tile from the master bath, removing and cleaning the master bath floor with soy based chemicals and a floor machine, removing carpet tack strips from every foreseeable wall in the entire house and vacuuming, vacuuming, vacuuming. ,