September 23, 2003
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Well, I figured I better update now since it may be a while. We have officially closed on the house. Since then we have bought a fridge, ordered carpet and Pergo for the house, and bought a car. I don’t really want to talk about the car buying experience. Suffice it to say, the sales people we dealt with employed every dirty sales tactic they could in order to squeeze every last penny from us. I was proud of Brian several times for sticking to his guns and turning the tables on their tricks. We ended up trading in the 4-Runner and getting a 99 Camry, white with tan interior. I can’t really brag about the ending price but we got a decent trade in for the 4 Runner and have a substantially lower payment than before and insurance is going to be less too. It is a beautiful car and I love driving it.
We hadn’t been able to get a hold of the previous owner of the house in order to do the final walk through. So as we drove out there Monday afternoon we kept trying them hoping and still we got no answer. We went anyway and as luck would have it someone was just leaving. They already moved out and disconnected the phones. So we were able to do the walk through and get a key and we can start doing what we want tomorrow. The really nice thing is she has cleaned the place really well including having the carpets shampooed. She didn’t have to do that and so we were really thankful that she is taking pride in how she leaves the place. I will try to arrange some time to go out today and start prepping the walls for painting.
Comments (7)
… and we pace our steps to the next hurdle… and OVER… pc
Seeing that photo of SerraV makes me wish that we had taken some time to run to the beach while I was there.
I hope that your moving experience is good. I thouroughly enjoyed moving into our place.
Very exciting! I bet that you can hardly wait to get in. BTW-you will soon see a change with the gas for your car, another great savings!–maren
What a difference one day at the beach can make. The last time she wouldn’t have been running to the water like that. mom
Congratulation on the house, how exciting!
another chapter has ended and begun, congrats
p&b- Im glad I could come down and see your new home in the works. It’ll will be nice to come down for the holidays and see it actually being lived in…(be careful about the oven…and make sure no bats are flying around in there before you turn on the fan) -serra