May 22nd Sounds Like a Good Day to Close on a House

So the 2-3 days it would take to get written approval turned into 12 days.  Our Realtor received a copy of the written approval from the second bank this past Tuesday. We only heard about it last night! I think our Realtor was more excited than we were.  We are excited, it is just that it's taken so long that it's almost surreal.  So, you might be wondering why we only got the news last night that we finally had approval.  Before giving us the news, our Realtor wanted to see the approval letter from the first bank. So with both letters in hand we got our good news!

So many things were running through our heads. First we had to pick a closing date, we have family coming to visit later in the month and we didn't want to miss their visit entirely. We have to close before June 7th.  So after some discussion we settled on May 22nd. It gives us about 2 weeks to get everything in order to close.  I am scheduled to work on the long weekend and I may need to do some scrambling to get all my work in order in time to leave, I'm not worried though.

Today, I had to get the inspection of the house organised.  First though I had to check with the Insurance company to see if it would be advantageous to us to have a wind mitigation inspection. The answer was a big no, so we won't waste our money on that one.  I gave a call to the inspector we had decided on previously. Unfortunately he is going on vacation today, until next Saturday and we need the inspection done in 7 days. So onto our second choice! All is now settled, money paid, info for the Realtor provided so the inspector can gain access to the house on Monday. We'll have our inspection report by Monday evening.  When we have that report and we make sure we're okay with any potential issues, then we can celebrate! It will be official then.

We are so ready for this to happen. So as of today our closing date is May 22 and then we will be open for business. We now have to update our web page, Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest and Google+. We are excited to be close to welcoming our first guests. Stay tuned for more updates. Thanks for following our journey so far.