landlords

Thursday:
It's finally ours! We closed on the house on Thursday, September 29. The process went surprisingly quickly and relatively smoothly (on our side anyway... but more on that later). Ryan and I both took off of work, we got up early and went on a nice run before we met our realtor at the house at 10:30 before our final walk through. We breezed through the house quickly, no burst pipes or trees had fallen through the roof so we felt good about things... until we began to notice that not.a.single.thing had been moved (neigh touched) since the last time we had been there. Not a good sign! But we needed to make it to the title company by 11 so we didn't have time to worry about it and on our way out a man pulled up with a POD so we thought things must be on track.

Once we completed signing the million and one pieces of paper that we didn't even begin to read (sorry to our future first born child if we signed you away) we were half way to ownership and excited!

After we signed, we had plans to meet the seller to walk through the house with them and learn about all the nooks and crannies. However, at 12:30 no sellers, no movers, no changes to the house... ok... not feeling great about the situation, but as we could not get a hold of the seller or their realtor there wasn't much we could do. So we went to lunch and to the grocery store to prepare for our Empty House Party we were planning to have later that night.

Around 2:30 we got a call from the title company, needless to say we were not thrilled when instead of "Come get your keys!" we heard "The seller missed his flight and hasn't packed or moved anything - do you really need the keys today?" What?!?! Apparently, due to some terrible planning on their part (who really thinks they can single handedly pack a house in less than 8 hours) and some back luck with the air lines, they could not move until Saturday evening. Awesome! So... much to our disappointment, on Thursday, September 29th we became homeowners and landlords.


Saturday:
We couldn't resist... after a fabulous Ranger's win, we just had to spend a night in OUR new home! So we packed our pj's, tooth brushes and sleeping bags and headed over around 11:00. Not the comfiest, but we had a blast for our first night as the tenants of our house!