Finally back home for a bit after visiting family in Tennessee for Christmas, but we’re back on the road on Friday to visit more family in the Dallas area, so it feels more like a pit stop. I’m definitely looking forward to getting back home on Sunday, with absolutely no traveling or trips planned until April.
Still trying to close on House #1, which is getting a bit frustrating. The buyers’ lender is apparently dragging their feet a bit but everyone swears we’re on track to close before the end of the year. I’m not holding my breath, as that basically means next Monday, so we’ll see.
House #2 is basically on hold until I get back on Sunday, then it’s a mad push to try to get things wrapped up there by the 15th. That’s probably over-ambitious, though, but we’ll see. Our contractor was supposed to have gotten in a week’s work while we were in Tennessee but that didn’t happen, as he got stiffed by a client for a pretty big job and claimed he didn’t have the cash on hand to buy materials while I was away, and I had no way to get cash to him.
A little annoying but I’m on the fence anyway about being absent when big jobs get tackled, as we’ve already had a few hiccups here and there where he and his crew have finished stuff up before I wanted it done, such as the new sub-floor in the laundry room getting put down before the plumbers ran their drains and supply lines, etc. Some of that is probably unavoidable but there’s no substitute for actually being there, as far as making sure things are done correctly and in the order you want.
Hard to believe that it’s nearly 2008. Jebus.
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