As things go, we have reached that point in the real estate transaction that marks the successful wedding of a willing a seller with a willing buyer: settlement, aka closing, aka here's the keys. Now it gets real. Now we become...
homeowners.
Besides the small mountain of paper we have been putting together through various involved parties (insurance, mortgage, title, etc) there is the mounting anxiety of this day which marks a new chapter in our lives. After Tuesday we will own a house... and a mortgage, and insurance payments, and maintenance costs, and the general responsibility that comes with owning a house and being a part of a community. This anxiety aside we are looking forward to the coming challenge.
later...
Well I never got around to posting this last piece on closing and in the meantime we closed! So it's done. Just under two hours in the title insurance office signing papers and listening to the man explain what we were signing, and we were done! We left the office after handshakes and key passing, got some lunch and drove to the house. Eating our first "meal" (calzone, coffee, and Vitamin Water) standing up in the kitchen we talked for the first time, seriously, about what we want to do with the place. It was exciting. After eating we walked around the place, seeing it for the first time through the eyes of homeowners. Sweet indeed.
We won't actually move in until next week but I've been over to the house couple of times to drop off cleaning supplies and take a bunch of pictures before all of our stuff fills that space. These pictures will make up the bulk of the next posting... stay tuned.
