Closing

After a long, LONG time in this whole process, we FINALLY got a clear-to close on Friday afternoon.  We knew we'd missed the 2nd appraisal from the selling bank, that much was unavoidable for the most part.

We kept waiting and waiting for that appraisal to come in, and finally--Wednesday afternoon, we got a clear-to-close from the SELLER!  It was about 2, and Susan asked us if we could close at 4 on Thursday--of course!

We were running up to see Kamryn after work--as she was just home from the hospital, but then we raced back home to get ourselves ready for closing.

Eric and I went to Menards and got $400 worth of new locks (the house has 5 external doors, one on the playhouse, and we needed to secure the barn too), and a wagon for the lawn mower.

We finally got a closing figure around noon, so Eric went to get the check while I waited back.

The closing was at 4, and the closer wasn't there when we got there. At 10 after 4, she called and said she was running :45 minutes late--what?

I left and went to pick Amara up from school, because that delay would throw off the whole evening--so i returned with Amara and her dinner and she got to help pass papers back and forth, when the closer FINALLY showed up at 5 o'clock.

We hustled out the door (no keys in hand...there aren't keys for a bank-owned, very anti climactic) and off to gymnastics. In a way, it was kind of cool that Amara got to be there, even though she had no concept of what we were doing, and Susan did her best to keep in entertained with coloring books too :)