May
7
“But We’re Paying Full Price.”
May 7, 2008 |
Not much in the way of exciting news to report of late, as we’re still twiddling our thumbs, waiting on the buyers to get everything dquared away as far as the sale of House #2. Still hoping to close on May 15th but the state of Texas hasn’t yet paid them out for the land and house that’s getting eaten up by toll roads, and that money is what they’re using to buy the house, etc.
Which is annoying in and of itself, but more so because the buyers are using the downtime to create list after list of “repairs” they want done. I just finished List #5. Each list has had about 5-6 items on it, with nearly all the items to be “repaired” along the lines of “Caulk top of shoe molding trim on left side of closet in second bedroom.”
When the minor nature of such repairs on the lists is pointed out to them via their agent the response has been “But we’re paying full price.”
Well, yes, yes you are. And that’s the only reason I’m largely biting my tongue and continuing to address the nine million tiny things you find going over the house with a fine-tooth comb. Well, that and the fact that you’re paying in cash. But my tongue is getting a bit sore and, well, you realize that at some point you will (hopefully) own said house, right? And that I’m not going to be there to continue to do things such as “raise height of water spigot in backyard 12 inches so as not to have to bend over so far”? Right?
But yeah, it could be much worse, all things considered, so I can’t complain. Just want to get the thing closed and done and completely and utterly out of mind and finished.
I’m waiting to get House #2 sold and House #1 refinanced before tackling any major renovations at the house we live in now, but I have been slowly tackling the fairly ginormous task the last few weeks of cleaning up, de-cluttering, boxing stuff up for a yard sale/Goodwill donation, and generally trying to get our house in order. I’ve been so busy working on other houses for the last year or so that things have gotten pretty out of control at home as far as crap perpetually being stored and/or strewn everywhere, so its kind of nice to dig into stuff with some order slowly being restored.
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Wow, those nit picky lists would drive me insane. Good luck with keeping your patience. :)