We received notice that our mortgage has been sold.  Not unexpected but, the first payment will go the new company.  Annoying.  I expect we will get another round of new homeowner offers/threats when the new mortgage is officially filed.  Apparently our warranty is about to expire, we need more insurance, our windows are bad, we need furniture and our water needs treatment. Hope no one sends us anything important mixed in with all the junk.

The well continues to be a problem with the pump running every few minutes without any water usage in the house.  Seems like a check-valve problem to me.  I turned it and the water heater off during out travel.  When we returned from our NY/PA trip I restarted them and purged air from the system. Kyle from Shane’s Pump Service took one look and confirmed my diagnosis.  He pulled the pump and found there was improper wiring and no secondary check in well.  Seemed prudent to replace the pump and wiring to minimize future problems.  They were done before lunch.  Looks like the pump check leaking was adding a couple of dollars a day to our electric bill.

Wait there is a campsite in the woods. Do we have squatters?  Brian and I check it out and find a lot of junk; a tarp over ropes in the trees, a tent, bedding, hammock, cots, tools, coolers, trash everywhere.

Whew it is/was theirs. She claims she thought it was all cleaned up, and she hadn’t been to it since she hurt her knee. ??????

Pre closing Inspection Day- Saturday

OH NO. She is a long way from out, Some or our furniture was mistakenly moved to storage and more was packaged to go so we called the realtor who failed to make the appointment and updated her.  She talked with the other realtor and we found items returned that day instead of next week as proclaimed.

Felix the cat

She has a cat who has only lived at this address and she wants us to adopt it.  It is neither an indoor or outdoor cat as it goes out when it wants but is not sufficiently independent to make it outdoors.  We must decline.

Preclosing Inspection Day 2- Sunday

Still lots to move but she has some help.

Closing day March 11

She signed her papers at 9am with the plan to return for her money at 3pm.  We check the house again at 11 and she still has a lot to move.  She apparently doesn’t understand but our realtor explains it very succinctly to her.  We agree to close at 3 but escrow a portion of her proceeds for a complete out by noon the next day.

Closing day +1

Pictures come of a clean house just before the noon deadline and a clean shed shortly after our reminder.  But when we arrive around 1pm there is still much to remove from the porch and the house and shed.  Seems you can stage a picture to demonstrate your position.

We help her move the rest of the stuff from the shed and house and change the locks.

Closing day +2

We arrive to find piles of stuff abandoned on the lawn and driveway.  Must all be junk at this point.  We spend the day cleaning the house and trying to get the internet working prior to our delayed move in tomorrow.

Day 3

Now let’s see if I can get the motorhome up the driveway.  Slow and bumpy and steep.  Whew made it and only scrapped the jacks at one point at the top where it levels out too quickly for the long wheelbase.  We can do this!  It settled in near the shed and the extension cord reaches the porch. Now to move stuff into the house.

When I contacted the internet provider he confirmed the power supply for his microwave equipment was missing and he would bring one by the house on the way to the office tomorrow morning since he is a neighbor.  He stayed and helped with the setup of our router in the Verizon dead zone by hotspoting my phone with his AT&T phone to permit initial setup.  Guess we need to change to AT&T.

Oh, rats!  We hit a snag with our initial lender.  The offer just isn’t what we want.  Our realtor points us at a local lender she has often worked with.  On the first walk through it appears she can better meet our expectations.  So, we start the process all over.  The burden for this is all on Kent.  He is meticulously downloading documents and uploading to the new lender’s system.  It is an all-day task but looks like we can live with the proposed loan.  We head off into appraisals and underwriting…. just a lot of waiting on our part.