To those who don't live nearby (or who aren't on Facebook), we closed mostly without incident on Wednesday, as scheduled! Woo-hoo!
I say mostly because the closing documents were wrong in a few places that we caught - notably that title commitment policy that I'd already made them correct back in January (the error involved setbacks, kinda important information). When we were asked whether we had a correct copy of the title policy, I broke out the chocolate bar. You work for the title company, you go find the corrected copy and prove to me that the title company knows what it's doing (or can at least pretend long enough to get us out of there)!
Friday was a very busy day on property as our electrician spent 8am-2pm fixing the code and/or safety issues that had been identified in our inspection report, plus installing a replacement ceiling fan for the one where a blade had been broken off! We have had Joseph do work on 5206 and we really like him; we also appreciate his taking time to explain what he's doing and why and what we need to know. We're happy to pay to be educated!
It just so happened to work out that the maid service we'd hired to do a "move out" deep clean showed up shortly before Joseph left, so we weren't in their way too much. Everything got scrubbed, dusted, mopped, cleaned. Inside all of the cabinet and drawers, the insides of the windows, you name it! Very nicely done.
Today, we had a lot of work we needed to do at the community garden, so we didn't get over to the new house until about 5pm. We took a bunch of "before" pictures of the outside and set to work on the vast multitude of trees and shrubs that need removing (that are sized such that we can remove them ourselves with hand tools).
Roy had the honor of sawing down the first tree. It had the honor of drawing first blood, however! The saw slipped and cut his left thumb and left index finger knuckle. I took a picture of him victoriously hoisting the tree before he headed back to 5206 to get cleaned up and bandaged. We now have peroxide and bandages at the new house.
I got to remove the 2 trees that bugged me out front (for which I will surely pay in the morning). By the time it got dark, we had removed 8.5 trees (the other half requires a chain saw to finish cutting the trunk down). That means we only have about another 41.5 to go.... Really. The professionals will have something like 11 trees to remove when they come on Monday.
If you want to see the property and/or house before it changes too much more, swing by on Sunday, 2/20, 4:30-5:30, and take a look around. (Roy has a mid-afternoon church gig from 2-4:30.) You can see our new table and chairs that we bought at The Urban Market Houston this past Sunday-we think that the table might be from an English pub. (Just step over the piles of Elfa shelving that I bought Tuesday night, the last day of the Elfa sale until Christmas Eve.)
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