Best of luck roselvr! Keep us posted!

Good luck !! Hoping everything goes smoothly for you!!

Good luck roselvr! It's been a long time coming. I hope everything goes smoothly.

Best wishes with your medical problems. I hope it turns out to be nothing serious.

roselvr - its been a long road and you've done a good job, esp here at the end with the closing and moving all lining up in a row. It WILL BE OVER SOON. I too wish you good news on your medical.

All the luck in the world on your 2 closings.

More importantly, Im hoping that the medical situation is just a scare, and nothing more. Just please make certain that you don't let the issue fall by the wayside no matter how busy you may be. Best wishes, and please keep us updated!

Wishing you the best of luck today - it's been a long time coming. Hope everything turns out ok with you healthwise too.

Thanks guys.

The thing that makes us nervous is the buyer threw some stuff on us late Friday & had we not had a close day for the new place (last Friday) he would have told everyone to stick it. We're supposedly being charged almost $200 per day on the new house since we did not close Friday, where they got that day we have no clue as we always told them we'd close here on the last Friday of the month. Thankfully our attorney will be with us for that one.

We still have a misunderstanding to clear up with our new place, the kitchen cabinets they gave us are saddle, the original color picked by the people that originally configured the house. Since they signed off on our color change our attorney told us it was worth the price of the upgrade which was close to $2,000. This doesn't even come close to us having to live with cabinets that are too dark for us. We originally asked for a front load washer/dryer and were told no. The wanted to give us the cheapest crap so I went to Sears twice last week and got what I wanted. Hopefully our attorney will get the $2,00 credited to closing costs. We're a bit upset about the cabinets and how they won't give us the washer/dryer especially since we did not bring an agent & have sent a lot of people down there. I'm surprised the sales lady didn't try to make us happy, I'm sure she's making a good buck on our deal.

While our agent doesn't think our buyer is dragging their feet we do. For the inspection list to take 5 weeks to make a decision is a joke. There was no reason it should have taken so long. What came up was minor stuff and nothing that would stop the close. FWIW, the buyer probably hasn't even seen 3 of the 4 things on the list and thinks they are more then what they are. I've told our agent to get him here to look at it yet he hasn't. At this point we're a bit put off and I can see why sellers get really bitter. We had stuff saved for them (paperwork, extra floor tiles) and were going to leave them about $5,000 in pavers as well as the cabinet I bought for the kitchen and ended up deciding not to leave it all now. The buyers are getting a decent house for a good price (we were low balled) & there was no reason for them to put us through what they did.

The health stuff, when I asked the doc if he thought cancer he said he wasn't sure. Since I've dealt with a lot of dr's, you can usually tell if the I don't know is nothing serious or it is, he looked worried. I then mentioned I was having a bad day, he agreed. I won't be putting it off, I have a lot of bone pain in my abdomen.

See you guys when we unpack. Movers will be here soon.

roselvr,

Thinking of you today.

/tricia

roselvr, wishing you a smooth move. I wish I lived nearby I would come and help. What a long haul you have had.

for the medical, please get a second opinion no matter what the outcome is - it doesn't hurt to be safe. And I know this is easy for me to say, but go off by yourself for 5 minutes a few times a day and try some aromatherapy, meditation, or breathing exercises - it really does help.

Here's one of my rose photos for you:
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Rose,

I know all too well how the stress of selling a home can affect health. Remember how I was diagnosed with high blood pressure, had an MRI of the brain, constant headaches, etc.? Hang tough and I hope your closing goes off without a hitch.

I saw you'd been posting elsewhere. I hope everything went OK with all the closings.

Linda, beautiful rose, which one is it? I so need to get my garden going. My poor roses have been in pots for a long time. I think that a 2nd opinion is a good idea and will most likely do that.

Sparksals, think I sent you a DM through citydata a month or so ago, not sure if you got it. Was checking in to see how your house is doing.

Lyfia, yes you saw me posting yesterday. I wanted to come here in the morning but had to clean out emails 1st. Amazing how they pile up in that short of time, but being subscribed to as many real estate sites as I am, it's to be expected. I then sat down in the afternoon & managed to post on one post here before my son got up and wanted to try to get the whole house internet going.

We paid for a fancy system that is supposed to run the internet, TV & phones in every room but for some reason it isn't working. I ended up having to throw the router & modem in the basement then had to check each line to see what room it went to. Very time consuming. I was hoping my son could handle it himself (he installs DirecTV) but he couldn't. We made a great team though. My hubby's son will come tomorrow and see what he can do. He works for Comcast & hopefully has seen this system before. I'm sure I could figure it out if I had the time but I don't.

Today I decided I'd had enough of the new carpet going all over and started vac'ing to find small black ants pouring in through the front door's bottom plate. I actually almost managed to run to the garage & basement to see where all of my sprays were. Thankfully some of the unpacked boxes are marked pretty good. I don't share my house with ants or mice so they need to get out and do it now or they will be sorry. lol

For the most part the new house is nice but we're finding things all over. The electrician did a crappy job wiring the house (1 light switch in a bathroom is buzzing), hubby & I could have installed the carpet better, there is spackle dust all over as well as paint drips and globs of spackle in various spots. Trying to figure out & remember what light switch works what, and find which outlet is upside down so that we can put the lamps on those, then to find out that it's only the bottom plug that uses the switch, stupid stuff like that that slows you down and makes the experience not as good. We were told to call the electrician for a house demonstration and for them to explain the wiring package yet they can't fit us in for a week. By then we won't need them.

The whole experience with this company is probably a 5 out of 10. In the beginning everyone was great, then around late February that stopped. We didn't get walk throughs we were supposed to have and it seemed our sales lady was always off on days we needed her. Back in February we had a low offer and could have made it work had the builder given us $7,000 but they refused. Our guess is someone may have been interested in the house, we don't know. With all of the builders hurting, this one wasn't working with us & in the end left us with a pretty bad opinion of them which is worst today as we found out they've been laying people off. One thing I am thankful is that it all worked out in the end, people that put deposits on another builder aren't doing as well because they can't sell their house and are losing their $60,000 deposit and are being charged the price decreases while the house is listed.

I made a long post at the rose forum yesterday morning and will copy/paste it here. What a day we had Tuesday!

We got through Tuesday with a lot of luck. We were nervous everything wouldn't fit in one moving truck and it didn't. The mover had to bring a 2nd truck which they had around the corner or something. Over the weekend, we ended up loading the plants in a 26 foot U haul - even stacking the plants there wasn't enough room so when we got to the perennials I just threw plants one on top of the other and figured they would grow back.

We left hubby's desk because it would snap in half had they moved it and my daughters bed was broken (hubby) so we'll have to go shopping. Once I get my money from my dad's estate I will take her for a new bedroom set. Turns out hubby thinks he left stuff in the desk :(

Our buyer walked through the house not knowing if we'd be out by closing. Hubby ended up leaving with my car, then came back for me. My agent called, I told him that I was going to vac the house but the power was shut off. The movers finished up just before he was ready for me. I had enough time to go through the house, close windows & change my clothes. Hubby called he was really upset. Turns out the buyer thought we'd leave the electric hooked up for them. How silly. Their agent is the wifes grand father, he knows better, for them not to call all of the utilities was something he should have told them to do.

The things that came up in the inspection ended up working out after all. We have a crawl space, at one time the owner before my hubby dug it out and put in a service pit. It's 7ft tall by 20 ft wide, about 30 or 40 ft long and holds the water heater, furnace & softener. The old owner put up concrete blocks to hold the dirt in, but when he put them in it wasn't level. You can clearly see that it isn't a load bearing wall and there were no cracks in it to suggest it's moved. Their inspector actually wrote it was amateurishly put up, but it ended up being our problem.

The title company had already put the agreed on terms in the closing sheet, so they were forced to accept a $300 deposit my hubby gave to the contractor we picked. The rest of the total repairs was credited to them so if they decide to use someone else, they are $300 short. This was a huge stresser. They ended up calling the contractor Thursday and decided they didn't like him for some reason or another and wanted to change what was agreed on. By the time we got the phone call it was after 6pm on Friday, the start of a national holiday. I don't know how either of us held it together all weekend, we were so stressed. We fully expected not to close Tuesday due to it. The funny thing is I don't remember them ever going down to look at the service pit the 2 times they were there, even when their inspector was there. When they came for the walk through Tuesday, you'd think he would climb down the ladder to look for himself, nope. We also offered for them to come and look at it weeks ago, they never took us up on the offer.

We got screwed with our cabinets and ended up with almost 1/2 of what it was worth. In hind sight, we should have had our attorney deal with it months ago to have them take them out. Yesterday I couldn't even put the kitchen together, I put a few things away but decided I'd open boxes in case we needed something & would deal with it today. Once the movers left yesterday, my daughter & I set up all the bedrooms, including computers & TV's. Comcast had come early in the morning, before the computers were unloaded so we couldn't check to see if all of the rooms had internet & we didn't. Hubby and my son worked on unloading the plants (about 500 pots) then made the hour drive to return the truck.

By the end of the night I set mine up (which is supposed to run the wired rooms) but the net in the bedrooms wasn't working so we have to get the people that wired the house out today. My son was upset, he couldn't play his Xbox so I told him to bring his stuff to the computer room & hook up there since it's the only room that has internet. Once he did that he was happy.

It's going to be another long day. I should have started already but sitting down feels too good. lol You would think that the house would be pretty clean but it's not. The kitchen cabinets are pretty gross, there is dust all over them.

Hopefully by tomorrow most things will be put away that we use daily so that I can start looking in the rest of the boxes for stuff I'll need. I still haven't found my business card holder or tools. While we tried to keep everything organized, when the movers came to unload yesterday boxes went in the wrong rooms so we have to deal with that. The top floor is done, I have piles of boxes that need to go to the main floor or basement, I don't doubt stuff in the main section needs to go up.

It will be 10 years before we do this again. I don't know how people do this every few years. Moving is the pits. I can't wait to get outside and deal with the gardens. A lot of the roses started blooming because the inside of the truck was hot.

You need to forget the garden and see about your medical problems!! Moving S&&&& in my opinion. Dealing with buyers does too. Hope things are at least better now.

:-)
Carla