As I posted last week, Carlos and I didn't get the house we put the offer in on. We were very disappointed for a few days and then we figured there was a reason we didn't get that house - must mean there is something else in store for us. We went to 2 open houses on the weekend in addition to visiting 4 sales offices for new home builders in the area. Nothing really struck our fancy, so we decided to keep looking.
The last night, a new listing came through and as soon as I saw the pictures, I knew we had to go and see the house. It only came on the market yesterday and I called my agent right away, but by then it was 6:30pm and it was too short notice to the sellers to see it that night. Which sucked because I was supposed to leave at 5:30am this morning to come to Toronto for a conference. Our agent arranged the earliest showing he could which was this morning at 10am. So, I decided to skip the morning sessions at my conference and go see the house. It was PERFECT! We love it even more than the other house we lost last week. We submitted an offer right away and they had until 8pm to respond. They came back with a counter offer which we now have until tomorrow at 8pm to respond to and we are going to accept. So, the house is ours! YAY! Provided that the home inspection comes back okay, we'll be moving in May!
Then, onto BAD news - my mom and I are being sued by my uncle. Just when I was calling her to tell her our good house news, she sounded all upset and told me she had been served with legal papers this afternoon and that my uncle was suing her and me. Since I am out of town, they couldn't serve me with papers, but they tried to deliver them this evening at 9pm. So, I'm sure they will try again tomorrow. I feel absolutely sick. I can't believe he is suing us! Apparently it's a 50 page document, so my mom hasn't read it all, but apparently he is suing saying he has witnesses (some of Oma's friends) saying that she was afraid of my mom. It would be laughable if it wasn't so scary to be sued! He is suing my mom for $500,000 plus $100,000 in punative damages. Not sure what he's suing me for, but I will find out when I "am served".
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
The suspense is killing me!
Carlos and I put an offer in on a house yesterday, which was accepted. The only issue is the house already had an accepted offer on it which was conditional on the sale of their home. So, because the seller accepted our offer, the first people who submitted the offer have 48 hours to either remove all their conditions or walk away. The clock started ticking on that yesterday at 4:30pm, so we will know either way by tomorrow at 4:30pm. Could be earlier if they made their decision before then, but I suspect it will be close to the deadline when we hear.
Carlos and I have been thinking about moving for the last several months. We love our house, but it is not the best location (surrounded by student rentals). Think loud parties and broken beer bottles on the front lawn. Now that we have Julie, we want to move to a nice, quiet family-friendly street. But, I’m not willing to move until we find the perfect house – has to have absolutely everything on our checklist, otherwise I am happy to stay where we are until we find that.
So, since October, I have been checking listings on mls.ca almost every day to see what’s out there and we have gone to maybe 5 or 6 open houses. Every house we’ve seen, I left thinking “Nice house, but not the house for us”. Until we went to the open house on Sunday – we both fell in love with the house! It’s on a nice, quiet street with a cul-de-sac on one side (i.e. no through traffic), in our preferred end of town, 2 story, 3 bed, 2.5 bath, double attached garage, unfinished basement that could easily be converted to more bedrooms or a large rec room. It also has a fully fenced in yard (which isn’t huge, but larger than some of the other houses we’ve seen!), nice kitchen, gas fireplace in the great room, main floor laundry, and the list goes on!
This house only went on the market a week ago and the first day it was on the market, they got an offer and accepted it. However, that offer was conditional on the sale of their house and their house didn’t even go on the market until today. So, they have until tomorrow at 4:30pm to either remove the conditions to their offer or walk away. I am doubtful they would be able to sell their house in 1.5 days, but you never know, it could happen. Or they could decide to ‘risk it’ and just hope their house sells in time before the closing date. But, that is very risky, so I’m hoping they would just walk away from the deal!
Either way, in 25 hours, I will know if we get this house or not. If we do, then I already have a home inspection scheduled for Friday afternoon. It is a 4 year old house, so not likely to be anything major wrong with it, but you never know with the builders these days…. So, spending the money on a home inspection is worth every penny in my opinion!
Carlos and I have been thinking about moving for the last several months. We love our house, but it is not the best location (surrounded by student rentals). Think loud parties and broken beer bottles on the front lawn. Now that we have Julie, we want to move to a nice, quiet family-friendly street. But, I’m not willing to move until we find the perfect house – has to have absolutely everything on our checklist, otherwise I am happy to stay where we are until we find that.
So, since October, I have been checking listings on mls.ca almost every day to see what’s out there and we have gone to maybe 5 or 6 open houses. Every house we’ve seen, I left thinking “Nice house, but not the house for us”. Until we went to the open house on Sunday – we both fell in love with the house! It’s on a nice, quiet street with a cul-de-sac on one side (i.e. no through traffic), in our preferred end of town, 2 story, 3 bed, 2.5 bath, double attached garage, unfinished basement that could easily be converted to more bedrooms or a large rec room. It also has a fully fenced in yard (which isn’t huge, but larger than some of the other houses we’ve seen!), nice kitchen, gas fireplace in the great room, main floor laundry, and the list goes on!
This house only went on the market a week ago and the first day it was on the market, they got an offer and accepted it. However, that offer was conditional on the sale of their house and their house didn’t even go on the market until today. So, they have until tomorrow at 4:30pm to either remove the conditions to their offer or walk away. I am doubtful they would be able to sell their house in 1.5 days, but you never know, it could happen. Or they could decide to ‘risk it’ and just hope their house sells in time before the closing date. But, that is very risky, so I’m hoping they would just walk away from the deal!
Either way, in 25 hours, I will know if we get this house or not. If we do, then I already have a home inspection scheduled for Friday afternoon. It is a 4 year old house, so not likely to be anything major wrong with it, but you never know with the builders these days…. So, spending the money on a home inspection is worth every penny in my opinion!
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Oma's promotion to heaven
It has been a long time since I have posted anything. I will try to post more often. So much has happened in the last several weeks!
First off, we had a great time in Florida after Christmas. Very relaxing, saw a couple of alligators (one was 4 houses down in a little park and the other was in our backyard). Went to Disney world where Julie got to meet Mickey and Minnie. It was really cute, she was carrying around a Mickey sticker and as soon as she got to meet him, she handed him the sticker like it was some sort of currency ;) We also did lots of shopping and had 4 beach days at various local beaches. We had great weather – some days were as high as 30 degrees! Made it difficult to come back to the cold!
That’s the good news.
The bad news is that my Oma passed away on Jan 21st. As I mentioned before, she suffered a stroke on Dec. 18th and just when we thought things were looking good and they were talking about rehab, she complication after complication. Just when they’d get one thing under control, something else would come up. She had an irregular heart rate that they needed to stabilize with medication, she developed aspiration pneumonia, then jaundice.
We found out on January 15th that the jaundice was caused by advanced cancer and there was nothing they could do and they were moving their focus to palliative care and just keeping her comfortable for however many days she had left. The doctors were amazed that she hadn’t been in pain for the last several months given how advanced the cancer was.
On the Monday, January 17th, the hospital called the family in at 4:30am thinking the end was near, at that point they told us hours, and we were all at the hospital by 5am. We spent 4 days at the hospital round the clock and she passed away just after midnight on the 21st. She had a semi-private room with the other bed empty, so my mom was able to stay in the hospital overnight and slept holding Oma’s hand. We gave Oma the most beautiful sendoff to heaven and it was such a peaceful and beautiful experience. I didn’t know death could be like that! We will all miss Oma terribly, but we know we’ll see her again someday in heaven. Oma always said she wanted to live long enough to see Julie walk, and she lived 6 months longer than that. I am so glad we had a girl and named her middle name (Erika) after Oma. Julie still asks for Oma every day and while Oma was in the hospital for 5 weeks, I said “Oma’s not home right now”, but now when Julie asks, I say “Oma lives in heaven with Jesus”.
I can't believe Julie turns 2 on Monday! The time has flown by! She is talking in full sentences now!
First off, we had a great time in Florida after Christmas. Very relaxing, saw a couple of alligators (one was 4 houses down in a little park and the other was in our backyard). Went to Disney world where Julie got to meet Mickey and Minnie. It was really cute, she was carrying around a Mickey sticker and as soon as she got to meet him, she handed him the sticker like it was some sort of currency ;) We also did lots of shopping and had 4 beach days at various local beaches. We had great weather – some days were as high as 30 degrees! Made it difficult to come back to the cold!
That’s the good news.
The bad news is that my Oma passed away on Jan 21st. As I mentioned before, she suffered a stroke on Dec. 18th and just when we thought things were looking good and they were talking about rehab, she complication after complication. Just when they’d get one thing under control, something else would come up. She had an irregular heart rate that they needed to stabilize with medication, she developed aspiration pneumonia, then jaundice.
We found out on January 15th that the jaundice was caused by advanced cancer and there was nothing they could do and they were moving their focus to palliative care and just keeping her comfortable for however many days she had left. The doctors were amazed that she hadn’t been in pain for the last several months given how advanced the cancer was.
On the Monday, January 17th, the hospital called the family in at 4:30am thinking the end was near, at that point they told us hours, and we were all at the hospital by 5am. We spent 4 days at the hospital round the clock and she passed away just after midnight on the 21st. She had a semi-private room with the other bed empty, so my mom was able to stay in the hospital overnight and slept holding Oma’s hand. We gave Oma the most beautiful sendoff to heaven and it was such a peaceful and beautiful experience. I didn’t know death could be like that! We will all miss Oma terribly, but we know we’ll see her again someday in heaven. Oma always said she wanted to live long enough to see Julie walk, and she lived 6 months longer than that. I am so glad we had a girl and named her middle name (Erika) after Oma. Julie still asks for Oma every day and while Oma was in the hospital for 5 weeks, I said “Oma’s not home right now”, but now when Julie asks, I say “Oma lives in heaven with Jesus”.
I can't believe Julie turns 2 on Monday! The time has flown by! She is talking in full sentences now!
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