Long post tonight, I hope you don’t mind. I’m doing this on my laptop, and am not really used to this keyboard, so please forgive any typos. ALL of my desktops have ergonomic keyboards, and this one will soon be docked and will have one.
Big drama over the last couple of days.
Thursday morning, the day of closing before moving to start Living in seattle, they discovered that my SSN was wrong on all of the paperwork. They were trying to fix it so that we could still do the signing that day and take possession on Friday.
That didn’t happen. It turns out that the lender that is doing our loan is ironically, in Florida, and the time difference was causing the delay. Everything was reprocessed with the correct SSN, but the lender did not get it until the end of their day. Thing’s weren’t looking good. Fortunately, I got this other new loan with a guarantor at CashCrazy.
We exerted all the pressure we could, and our mortgage broker managed to pull a few strings, and expected the paperwork early Friday morning. On the off chance that nothing else would go wrong, we all made a tentative plan for me to follow Jeffrey to work Friday morning, sign the essential documents and fax them back. The only problem with this plan was the time constraint. Jeffrey had to be in court most of the day, starting at 9:00. Naturally, there was a problem. Jeffrey gets in and finds out that court has been pushed up to 8:45.
I’m able to get a weak wireless connection in the courthouse, and try to do some work from there while he’s in morning court. We have given everyone a fax number in the actual courtroom, so that as soon as they get the necessary documents we can sign them and fax them back immediately. I have to move my car after two hours (about 10:45, at this point) because of time restrictions on where I was parked, so it was decided that I head to Jeffrey’s office, and we’ll keep in contact by text messaging. Realtor said that the document was being faxed just after Jeffrey texted me that he was almost done. Another text that he’s on his last case for the day, and still no fax. I let realtor know, but he’s already on his way to Tacoma with the rest of the documents and a Notary Public to witness everything. We contact another party in the transaction (the trust company, I think) and they are able to email the necessary documents to his work account while realtor is still in transit. We sign the absolute essential ones (after getting some questions answered about the closing costs) to close on Friday back (the HUD statement), and await the arrival of realtor and notary. The original fax to the court room shows up after we have received the email, about 11:45.
Get a call with an ETA from them (approx 12:15), decide to walk to Subway so Jeffrey can get some lunch before he has to be back in court. Back at the office, Jeffrey eats, we review the other documents for closing to expedite the signing process, but only get so far before Jeffrey has to deal with something from his afternoon docket. Find out that our deadline for closing today is to get the documents signed, notarized and filed before 2:00. Shortly thereafter, realtor and notary show up (12:30). We appropriate a supposedly empty law library, unintentionally kicking Jeffrey’s boss’ boss (who is eating his lunch) out. Jeffrey had never met him before, but realizes who he is and starts agonizing over it. Get him calmed down a little, start signing papers, with pauses to get answers on parts we haven’t reviewed yet. Some of the documents are in duplicate or even triplicate. Now I don’t have good handwriting (that’s why I took typing in high school), so my signature is little more than a scrawl at the best of times. By the end of signing, I wouldn’t even have called it a chicken scratch. Realtor and notary head back to Bremerton/Silverdale to get the papers filed, hopefully before the deadline (we’re about 1:10 or 1:15 at this point. Drive to Bremerton is about 1/2 hour, depending on traffic. We’re cutting it very close. Jeffrey and I pretty much lose hope at this point.
I head back to our hosts’ house in Edmonds after I drop Jeffrey off at the courthouse, to save him the time of walking back. I get to Edmonds about 2:10 (traffic on I-5 was bad), check in with work again, see that the update I wrote to my boss last night before I went to bed was still saved in Draft, and not in my Sent Items. I forgot to hit Send!! I immediately write a new email apologizing and explaining the situation. My boss has been very understanding and patient while we’re going through this process as long as keep her update. I hope I didn’t jeopardize my job.
Get a call about 20 minutes later that realtor and notary got there and filed in time. We can take possession that day, realtor will get keys. I will start loading my car with necessities we have at hosts’ house in beween calls and head down when I check out of work for day. He will go directly to Bremerton from work, meet with realtor to get keys, pick up a few perishables and I will meet him at the new house. Meantime, among my packing and working, I have to re-reserve a U-Haul that I had cancelled the previous day because it looked like we wouldn’t be closing in time to make good on the reservation. Managed to get it set for Saturday morning, definitely one day, possibly two. I piled clothes, bedding, laptops (but not desktops or my networking stuff) some snack-type food-stuffs we had lying around, and the dogs and their needed items. I didn’t get on the road until about 5:15, right smack dab in the middle of rush hour traffic.
If you are not familiar with Seattle, driving I-5 through downtown can be problematic at any time, but it is especially stressful during the rush hour periods. An 8-lane freeway basically narrows down to a 4-lane one right through the heart of downtown. The backups in that constricted are are nightmarish. Tacoma’s downtown is better, but not my much, and I had to drive through that too, in order to get to Bremerton. It took me over 2 hours to make a commute that under ideal circumstances would only take a little more than one.
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I get to our new house, found that Jeffrey had stopped by the storage place and picked up a few things. But there was a problem because the he lost the keys so we had to Contact All Queens Locksmith for reliable locksmith services. We unloaded my car, and headed out to a nice dinner, courtesy of our realtor,another option to locksmith services is Las Vegas Locksmith have quality experience. It had been a VERY stressful day, and there was more coming the next day. We needed a little pampering. Back to the house, set up a place to sleep for the night, even though it is on the floor. Plug in the small TV I had brought, discovered the cable was still on, thanks to the previous residents, and watch a DVD that Jeffrey had picked up from storage. Start getting the puppies acquainted with their new house and yard. They are so excited with the expanded territory and all the new smells. We’re going to have to get a dog run or something until we can do something about the fence in the back yard. They are very small dogs, the backyard fence is a picket fence and they can squeeze between the slats, and there are parts that need some repair. Right now they are on very long leashes when they’re outside.
We get an unrestful nights’ sleep, as neither of us sleep well on the floor. Pick up the moving truck a little after eight and head for the storage place in south Tacoma. Bill shows up to help, but had to bring his dog because he couldn’t find anyone to watch or feed him that day. Dog goes absolutely crazy, barking, whining and howling at being tied up while we’re moving around so far from him. Dog noise bothers everyone, we ask Bill to go ahead and take dog back home.
So, it’s just Jeffrey and me loading a 24′ truck with most of our life. We have a deadline, since the cable guy is supposed to be at the house between 12 & 2 to get us set up with internet, cable and telephone. We get 3/4 or more of our stuff loaded in, filling the truck from top to bottom and front to back, and leave about 11:15. I make it to the house about 12:05 or so, no sign of cable guy. Put puppies outside, try to maneuver truck through alley and backed up the garage, truck is too big. Move truck to front of house, and start unloading it while waiting for cable guy.
Cable guy shows up about 1-ish. By this time, both Jeffrey and I are nearing exhaustion after having loaded the truck, driving, and unloading as much as we did, which is not that much. We take a short break, show the cable guy what we’ve discovered and reiterate what needs to happen and where. He gets started on that while we continue to unload the truck. Truck takes longer to unload than to load, both because it’s further from the street to the front door, and our increasing soreness and waning strength. We plug on, finally finishing about 4:15 or 4:30.
My hands started to become numb, my hands cramped up a couple of times, my backs, legs and shoulders are killing me, especially the one injured in the previously blogged accident, I even had to look for information on how pain patches can help your back ache. We decide to leave the rest of the stuff in storage for the moment, which is mostly big items, including the grand piano, and hire a company to get them out next week.
Returned the truck, got sticker shock at the mileage charge, even though we returned the truck with more gas than we got with it. Went to get Jeffrey some dinner (I’m not usually hungry after a physically stressful day). Met realtor at restaurant and chatted for a few minutes. Stopped at the store on the way home to pick up some needed things (including beer). Arms started to spasm halfway through the process, hands went numb and fingers curled into my palm and I couldn’t straighten them unless I used the other hand to do it.
Got back to the house, got mattress ready to sleep on, not having time to get frame put together, relaxed for a while. Jeffrey did what he needed to on the internet, and now so am I. I won’t have my networking components until tomorrow, unfortunately, so we’re taking turns using it right now.
We already have to call the cable company tomorrow. Internet has gone down at least eight times since about 7:00 PM. I have to reset the modem before it comes back on.
Time for bed. Tomorrow, we unpack a few things, get new locks for all the doors, and pick up the rest of our necessities from our gracious and former host.
Sleep well.
