Anthony + I are officially homeowners to the most charming, completely renovated home in The Village! I’ll have more photos to share soon, but I know I need to document the entire process of getting us to this moment. We started looking at homes in February of this year. After using one realtor + not feeling like he was doing his job, we switched to Amy Denner of Churchill Brown Realty based on a recommendation of a Y member. She was by far the best thing that happened to us.
The day before our 13th anniversary, Anthony + I just so happened to be on the MLSOK app when a home had just been listed that was absolutely perfect. I texted Amy right away to try to see it first thing Monday morning. She made it work, we saw the home, put an offer on the home, had a counterbid, + acceptance by lunch time on our anniversary! It was amazing that the previous owner didn’t want to accept other offers, as I know we would have been outbid by others.
Happy Anniversary, you’re about to be homeowners! 🙂 Inspection came + went without any problems. Had a closing date of Friday, July 20th – Anthony’s birthday. Several dates that we knew we’d never forget in this home buying process! As the closing date approached, Amy asked me if I had received the closing disclosure document that is required by federal law. After scrambling on Tuesday, I learned around 4:30pm that we would not in fact be closing on our home on July 20th. Because see the federal law requires homeowners receive the closing disclosure 3 days prior to closing. Our loan officer let us down – we had everything in place but they dropped the ball. To this date, I believe the loan processor was fired that day, as she never got back to me after the many emails + voicemails I left for her. I could be wrong, but radio silence is never a good thing!
Normally I would have been flexible with pushing the closing date out to Monday. There is a huge covet where we had a very short window of closing + moving everything before Anthony flew out to Washington DC for 15 days(!!!!!!). You guessed it, Anthony left on Sunday night. We got a power of attorney, I signed our lives away on Monday morning, coordinated movers to move us on Friday, + then finished cleaning our rental home. It was by far one of the most stressful weeks of my life, all while my husband was working 14 hour days halfway across the country.
It’s been several weeks now of living here + we LOVE it. With all the stress over the course of several months, it’s been completely worth every gray hair + extra pound gained. More photos to come soon of our little “1620” bungalow.
