So close, and yet so far away

Well we were supposed to close on the house today but a whole slew of things pushed back the closing. First, after an entire Spring Break of nothing to do but relax- we find out last Saturday that actually, the appraiser found several things that need repairs before they'll okay us for our loan. All repairs that are completely do-able, and pretty easy, just time consuming and a couple are a little specialized (i.e. plumbing issues that had to wait for my dad). So he was going to come up on Wednesday to fix stuff, we could have the house re-appraised on Thursday and close on Friday right? Wrong! Dad got called in to work on Wednesday which forced us to push closing back, but that wasn't the only thing we would have been waiting on.

Apparently, the seller's had to recreate the abstracts on the house because they had no clue where they were at, these are supposed to be done by next Tuesday (fingers crossed), and then they can check the title on the house to make sure everything's good. Thank goodness for great friends with great connections, too! Without the help of our friend Jamie, we would be up a creek, since our realtor forgot to have the water turned off and one of the repairs is to the water main lever. In that same respect, we are so very thankful to the guys at State Center utilities who are making sure the water is off for that repair- and at vary late and inconvenient notice. I can already tell we are moving into a community that really takes care of each other, we kind of already knew that, but these events are just reaffirming that. Hopefully we'll have closed before Easter- that's the new goal!