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Aah! It's happening!
We got the house! *giddy dancing*
Today has been an absolute tidal wave of documents to sign: the waiver for the conditions, the representation agreement for my real estate agent (because our old one expired--oops!), a couple of minor counter-offers from the sellers about the exact closing date and a request to keep their loft beds, which I gladly accepted. I then had to contact one of the lawyers recommended by my real estate agent, and I will have to pay out a truly staggering amount of money for that particular service (as well as land transfer fees and the like).
I am very excited!
I also immediately began panicking about how much packing there is to do before we move. The new closing date, instead of being June 4th, is now May 26th. That means we have exactly six weeks and four days to pack up this nightmare of a hoarders' house before then. Of course we won't be moving on the closing date itself, but since that week is my week off from work it only makes sense to move sometime during that week so that I don't have to take extra time off work to make it happen.
Right now I'm in the initial planning stages of the packing. Mostly my concern is that I have nowhere in this house to use as a staging area for boxes the way I normally do, because there's just no room anywhere anymore. Previously I would have used the living room, but KK will likely not put up with that sort of thing for six weeks, so I'll have to come up with something else. I don't really want to use the basement, which is already kind of full, and it means navigating the stairs with a lot of boxes, both taking them down and then bringing them back up, because I can all but guarantee that movers won't want to navigate my death stairs any more than absolutely necessary, but I think it may end up being my best bet.
I want to break the house down into "zones" that I will give myself a certain number of days each to pack up, and hope I'm not woefully underestimating the amount of time it will take to pack everything. I know for instance that the kitchen is going to take much longer to pack up than I anticipate, because that's what ALWAYS happens when I pack up a kitchen. There are too many small bits and bobs, and wrapping up fragile plates and cups is fiddly and time consuming, so I need to give myself at least a week to pack that up. The basement and the garage are currently nightmares (especially the garage, oh God), but I might do as I've done in the past and rent a small U-Haul van and move a bunch of the gardening tools and other things that aren't as easy to pack into boxes myself.
Okay, all that stress has tired me out. :P Time for bed. Catch you on the flip side, friends!
Today has been an absolute tidal wave of documents to sign: the waiver for the conditions, the representation agreement for my real estate agent (because our old one expired--oops!), a couple of minor counter-offers from the sellers about the exact closing date and a request to keep their loft beds, which I gladly accepted. I then had to contact one of the lawyers recommended by my real estate agent, and I will have to pay out a truly staggering amount of money for that particular service (as well as land transfer fees and the like).
I am very excited!
I also immediately began panicking about how much packing there is to do before we move. The new closing date, instead of being June 4th, is now May 26th. That means we have exactly six weeks and four days to pack up this nightmare of a hoarders' house before then. Of course we won't be moving on the closing date itself, but since that week is my week off from work it only makes sense to move sometime during that week so that I don't have to take extra time off work to make it happen.
Right now I'm in the initial planning stages of the packing. Mostly my concern is that I have nowhere in this house to use as a staging area for boxes the way I normally do, because there's just no room anywhere anymore. Previously I would have used the living room, but KK will likely not put up with that sort of thing for six weeks, so I'll have to come up with something else. I don't really want to use the basement, which is already kind of full, and it means navigating the stairs with a lot of boxes, both taking them down and then bringing them back up, because I can all but guarantee that movers won't want to navigate my death stairs any more than absolutely necessary, but I think it may end up being my best bet.
I want to break the house down into "zones" that I will give myself a certain number of days each to pack up, and hope I'm not woefully underestimating the amount of time it will take to pack everything. I know for instance that the kitchen is going to take much longer to pack up than I anticipate, because that's what ALWAYS happens when I pack up a kitchen. There are too many small bits and bobs, and wrapping up fragile plates and cups is fiddly and time consuming, so I need to give myself at least a week to pack that up. The basement and the garage are currently nightmares (especially the garage, oh God), but I might do as I've done in the past and rent a small U-Haul van and move a bunch of the gardening tools and other things that aren't as easy to pack into boxes myself.
Okay, all that stress has tired me out. :P Time for bed. Catch you on the flip side, friends!