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and we're in!

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so yes its been almost a month since i've shared the house with anyone we were supposed to get keys on may 4 originally so my parents booked a flight to come out and help us fix and move!  so dad was coming on may 4 to knock out some big stuff like the bathroom and mom was coming on may 8 since my vacation didn't start until may 9 (which was also mother's day so i thought it would be nice to give my mom a paint brush for mother's day-jk). so nice of them until we got the call the there was a court issue and we would not get keys until may 7. so mom looked into changing dad's to may 8 to fly with her and it just didn't make sense money-wise. so dad was going to get some quality time with rob that did not involve working on a house. so dad comes in and on may 5 he goes with me to sign the escrow paperwork!! then we find out that we are not getting keys on may 7- that is the final day for the court confirmation! we are not going to get the keys until probably may...

its a whirlwind!!

its been barely even three weeks since we saw our future home! after our our offer was accepted and we opened escrow its been a whirlwind of activity!! we found out we were closing in 30 days!! we had the home inspection we had a sewer scope we locked our mortgage rate we found out that we still qualify for the 2009 first time home buyers credit! we had a termite inspection we got a partial credit for the termite inspection we found out that ca signed a state first time home buyers credit we pushed closing back a week to qualify for the ca home buyer credit! (we have to close after may 1) we get daily emails from either our real estate agent, her assistant, our mortgage broker, or one of the many people who has done some kind of inspection on the house we got our appraisal we found out our appraisal came in low :( we had a true miracle happen the sellers agreed to drop the price of the house to the appraisal price which by the way is just a smidge lower than what our or...

miracles do happen

we saw a house sunday they wanted all offers by sunday nite we put in our offer sunday they countered on tuesday we responded wednesday they accepted our offer thursday we opened escrow friday i am in friggin shock !!!!! home inspection monday once that is ok pictures will come!