OFFER ACCEPTED

July 16, Howard Buford Recreation Area.

So little of note to blog about lately. Radio, hiking, photography, typewriters, repeat. Same old same old. HOWEVER, today our offer on the new house was officially accepted, YAY!!! Finally the owners are getting their crap out, inspections are scheduled, movers are scheduled, deep cleaning is scheduled. We will close “on or before August 8th,” according to the documents everybody signed yesterday and today.

It feels like it’s been a long process to get to this point! We started looking for a new house on March 9. We heard about this particular house on April 15—an unlisted private-deal opportunity. We expressed our interest immediately, and the seller basically agreed verbally to sell it to us. But he hasn’t been in much of a hurry to clear out the place and complete the deal (he moved to Portland eight months ago), so we’ve put off making an official offer. The house is actually still full of crap. His daughters have been coming down from Portland on weekends and taking what they can by car, which has only slightly dented the totality of the house’s contents.

But this week we heard that actual movers have been scheduled to remove the rest of the stuff by July 28, and deep cleaning is scheduled right after that. Enough movement seems to have happened by this week that our agent went ahead and drafted an offer, and we signed it yesterday. It was accepted today. We can go ahead and have building and sewer inspections done next week. We should be able to take possession of our new house during the first week of August. And I finally have something new to blog about!