Pretty Soon They'll Come to Get Me

OK, so I had all my Christmas cards ready to mail by Thanksgiving. Except that I wanted to include our new address in them to save stamps, so I set them aside to send when we had closed on the house. And they sat there and sat there. . . I finally went through and took out the address cards and just sent them anyway. I don’t think anyone got theirs before Christmas.
Yeah, so I mentioned that we are still in the apartment. Let me explain. {To make this as quick and painless as possible, I will be using bullets. No, not that kind of bullets!}
• We got the run-around from the credit union for a few weeks and finally switched to a different bank.
• Got the appraisal. It came back really low.
• Challenged the appraisal.
• Of course everyone was out of the office for the holidays. That really sped things up.
• Appraiser wouldn’t budge. Re-negotiation time with sellers.
• Realtor finds us a different house.
So we started the process over. Luckily this house is not a short sale. A bank already owns it, so it works a lot more like a regular sale. By that I mean we waited 4 days instead of 4 months for a response.
This week we are doing all the inspections and then we will hopefully close on the house the beginning of February.
Maybe I’m getting cynical, but I still feel somehow that the fat lady hasn’t sung yet. But I might as well show you some pictures.