Bumps in the Road

As you may know from previous posts, my husband and I are in the process of buying our first house. We are SUPER excited and equally as nervous and anxious. Today we are 12 days away from our closing date. 12 days away and we've hit a bit of a bump in the road.

It turns out that the banking part of things kind of dropped the ball. The lady we were in conversation with at the beginning either got fired, let go, quit, or whatever and no one knew that we were stuck in a file somewhere. So today, as soon as the bank was made aware of the issue, we went in and signed our life away. They're hoping to get everything done by our closing date, but it could be a few days late. So I'm crossing my fingers hoping for better news than we received today. It's nice to know that the bank is working as fast as they can to help us out and not looking at us saying, "Too bad." or "Sucks to be you."

It seems like we're back on track. My biggest worry was the appraisal. Then my biggest worry was everything getting done. The owner has a few things to fix, thanks to the inspection, but it's taken him longer than we anticipated for him to do it. Then today we found out about the appraisal and the bank issues. I'm pretty nervous about this house and this process. We don't have too much time between the Closing Date and the day we have to be out of our apartment. There's no room for mistakes or delays!

On top of things, my son has another cold and I'm pretty sure that I have the flu. It's not too much fun to go and sign 30+ signatures when you're too busy worrying about keeping yesterday's dinner down!

Looks like an early night tonight. Hopefully my sickness is one that will go away with some rest!