The Search for a Property (Part III)

When we arrived at our closing, after it being postponed three times, we were bursting with happiness.  We got there early because we stopped over at the property to quickly do a walk through and leave one of our cars there -- our timeline was so incredibly tight that we had to start moving in immediately!

We finally properly met the sellers after dealing with them through lawyers for months.  They are an older couple in their seventies.  The husband grew up in the house and the couple still lives next door.  So, essentially we met the sellers and our new neighbors in one fell swoop.

The closing went smoothly -- the closer arrived, gave us a mound of paperwork to sign, our lawyer (a family friend) made sure everything was good, and we walked out of there with a collection of keys and a garage door opener.

Over the next 24 hours we made dozens of trips between the homestead and the condo (where we were temporarily living).  It was also raining.  We rented a big uHaul truck and packed it to the hilt, after clearing out the condo and also getting a lot of stuff from my mom's house.

It was a day to remember.  I'm pretty sure Mike hit a couple of things with the huge uHaul truck.  We moved all of our belongings by ourselves in the rain on a weekday (having to work the day before and the day after moving), and we nearly got into a fistfight over getting the couch in the front door.  It's the only new piece of furniture we own, and it's awful to move.

Four days after moving, we celebrated our first wedding anniversary in our new home.  Cheers to us!