virginia and jon . com

Everything is going well and according to plan. The sellers have offered to let us close a few days earlier since everything is going well. We spent most of the day packing and cleaning. The current plan is to spend this week getting everything packed up, and then we have a full week to get everything moved to the new house and clean the apartment. It’s certainly going to be a busy and stressful week.

Jon & Virginia

I never knew how much work goes into buying a house.  Jon and I have been looking for about 5 months(right after we got married).  We looked at about 50 houses , and definetely saw some hideous ones.  When we finally decided on one is when all the REAL craziness started.

You have to get the other party to agree in a timely manner to your price and conditions(carpets cleaned, septic pumped etc. . . ), then you have to get an inspection.  The inspection consists of paying a man to let you watch while he goes through EVERY system of the house.  Including being on the roof, in the attic and down i n the icky crawl space.  If your doing this in the winter, make sure you wear a coat, I did not and froze my butt off.

After the inspection you have to figure out which things that were broken are livable for you, and which things you want the seller to pay to fix.  Which then takes time and stress(hoping that they will fix it so it is like a new house).  Once you settle all that there is still the mortgage , escrow, enerest money, and TONS of paperwork to sign and find(as in old W-2’s, paystubs, bank statements etc. . . ).

Thats about where we are.  We will be getting our keys on March 31st, which seems so soon.  We have so much to do outside the regular house buying stuff.  Organizing the apartment, and figuring out how the heck we plan on moving all of our stuff down the 3 flight of stairs we had to haul it up when we moved in 1 1/2 years ago.  So if your local. . . . HELP?!?

We will TRY(notice the emphasize on try) to keep you updated

Virginia

We are on our way to buying our first home. The deal is still in process, but we have an agreement with the seller and we are working on the details.

Pictures here.

Is the time that you spend waiting in line the same thing as paying a poll tax? Could you afford to wait up to 10 hours to have to vote? The real question, can you afford not to? Make you’re vote count.

Lets start out by saying, yes we know we are horrible at blogging. However we are so super busy that often times we forget that we even have one!  We are looking at house every few days with our real estate agent, and are potentially interested in a few.  We promise to blog atleast one time a week from now on.  Even if life isn’t totally exciting.

Having said that we have been married about 5 weeks. Things are awesome. If you haven’t seen the wedding/honeymoon pictures we encourage to go see them on the right of the page. We put up a ton, and are always finding more to post.

2 weeks ago I was bar tending and scooping ice when the door to the ice machine broke and fell on my foot. I had to go to the emergency room and be checked out. No broken bones, just a deep contusion luckily. So I was sent home to rest(on crutches, which was hilarious). The doctor had to fill out a few forms for my work since it happened on site, but was very vague about when I could come back. When I went to work a few days later (my next scheduled shift). I worked for a few hours then was sent home being told I was not allowed to be there until I had gone back to a doctor again. Now that we are married, I have limited medical coverage on base until november 1st. So I can’t really be seen there for free yet. As for the doctors around town, noone is taking new patients, so we tried to go back to the ER and get the doctor who filled out the paperwork to be more specific, and she wasn’t on the scheduled for the week. To make a long story short, I can’t go back to the ER, the company won’t pay. I barely managed to get a appointment at another clinic, but it was for a few days away.

I went to the clinic and was told I could work modified duty until October 29th. Which just meant 4 hours at a time so I is not on my feet a lot. Brought that back to my work and they told me I can’t work modified duty at all. So now I is off work until Thursday this week, and still have to go to the doctors again next week. So to sum it all up, just because I thought I should get checked out and was pretty ok, I now will be out of work for almost 2 weeks.

On the plus side, we have a clean house. . . and our thank you cards are out.

Friday night we attended the 233rd annual Navy birthday ball.

The food was pretty good and we both had a great time.