For Team Bolen? It is the day that we purchased our first
house!
Yup, I am writing this post while standing at the counter of
our new home while AT&T hooks up our Internet. This place sure is echo-ey
without any furniture, rugs or stuff in it. J.E.B. asked me what it felt like
to walk through the place now knowing that it was in fact ours, and let me tell
you, it feels great! A little daunting yes (now all repairs/fix-its are up to
us not some landlord!!) but pretty freaking cool!
As many of you know, J.E.B. is still away in Canada and I
have been doing to finishing touches to the home ownership process on my own. I
was rather stressed for the Home Demonstration Walkthrough yesterday since
J.E.B. would be thinking about things that wouldn't even occur to me. But I
think I did pretty well in trying to fill both of our shoes. What was expected
to be a quick 45-minute walk-through to learn where stuff is, instead became a
3-hr walkthrough/inspection as I went through the house to make sure that any
mistakes/issues/discrepancies were addressed and taken care of. The guy with me
had a roll of bright orange masking tape to mark such discrepancies and I am
serious when I say I used about half that roll. Most of it was minor paint
touch-ups but I was adamant that I would not be rushed, nor would I lower my
standards to make the appointment go faster.
This morning was the closing and it went ok, in that I did
indeed sign for the house and completed the process. I only say ok since
apparently the mortgage company did not forward along the rather important information
that this would be a Power of Attorney signing/closing. So I ended up waiting
about 30 minutes or so for the mortgage company to send over revised POA
paperwork. Once that happened, everything else went smoothly. I had to
basically write a paragraph every time I had to sign J.E.B.'s name but my hand
surprisingly did not fall off and I was able to get everything done. And, the
drive into Houston was fairly easy! So a win overall!
So now I'm standing in our new home since there is no
furniture here yet and thinking about our future. Is this the house we'll be in
when V learns to ride a bike? Or learns to drive? Yikes, that thought already
scares me! Will I eventually get around to painting each room the colors I want,
for instance a nice sunny yellow for the kitchen maybe? Or a soothing light
blue for our bedroom? Are we going to utilize the dog park that was just put in
down the street from us or will I just walk Atlas around the miles of sidewalks
through the subdivision? Will I make it habit to walk to the lake or just stay
on the streets and meander along what way? What is our neighborhood like?
Ahh, the possibilities the future holds! I can't wait!
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| No one was there to capture the first picture of me entering our home for the first time....so I did it myself! |
