Jack ‘n Tracie

When we bought our current house 3.5 years ago, we were so excited, so starry-eyed, and so um… desperate, that we didn’t pay much attention to the details. We bought the house without an inspection and without asking for any type of work to be done before we bought it. When someone told us we needed to sign something, we just did.

This time we’re trying to be careful and know exactly what everything means and why we are signing this or that… We’re being careful about any defects in the house and to be sure it’s what we want AND to be sure we’re doing things 100% right….and OMG it’s hard!

First, we intended to be looking for a while before we found the house.. who knew the perfect house was already right in our own backyard. (Literally.) So this is coming at us way faster than I expected or was ready for. And now we’re asking questions about why we’re signing this or that, and what everything means. Why can’t all these escrow papers and legal documents make SENSE?? There’s numbers all over the place that mean nothing to me.

I know this will be over soon, but this is no less stressful and aggravating than the last time we bought a house. Last time we were just happy to GET a house, let alone try to understand what anything meant.. The stress last time came from wondering if we could even find something because every time we did, someone bought it minutes (literally) before us and we kept getting our heart broken.

Now we’re waiting to find out what this new set of paperwork we got is about. And to find out if the seller will agree to at least meet us halfway on some of the repairs we’ve requested. (We weren’t *that* picky. We didn’t sweat the small stuff.. just the big stuff that could be a danger to the house or my family.). And we won’t know what this new paperwork is about or if the sellers are going to be nice or not until Monday. If I don’t have any hair on Monday, you’ll know why.