Too much to talk about (part 3)

So if major home renovations and the announce of our first baby isn't enough to keep us busy....

We just bought a real house!

That's right. A real, single family, suburbia home in Saratoga Springs. Mary and I have been looking to move out of Provo for over a year now. We're kinda done with all the students and our tiny apartment and always worrying about being too noisy for the basement tenants.

Mary has been on the look out for a house that would suit us best. Well she found one in February. It was a short sale in Saratoga Springs.  The drama involved in this house purchase is too long for this blog.

But the tl;dr version is that because this house is a short sale, the banks (yes, there were two with liens on the house) were very unwilling to cooperate or be lenient in almost any way. So our realtor and our mortgage broker and we have been fighting with the banks and jumping through their stupid hoops to finally get to the closing table on May 19th. And just to tell you how close we were on this, our broker had to personally courier the docs up the the corporate offices in SLC in order to process them before the deadline. Our mortgage was funded about an hour later.

I only hit the tip of the iceberg on the drama that happened during this purchase. But we're soooooo glad that it's all over and we persevered and fought hard and got it.
I'll have to post pictures of it soon.