January 2012 Weddings
jtmh2012
mod
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
I hereby declare....
Re: I hereby declare....
And today I was off making a living, Mark! Just kidding, unpaid internship for the win >.<
So Mark, what is the worst part of trying to buy a house?
Normally, trying to find something you're willing to put an offer down on. This time around, I'm debating between the sellers and the bank.
But I haven't been able to talk to the builder directly, because both agents think they need to be in on it.
Sounds like fun....
I've had my issues with the realtors, but they're more personality conflicts and differences in the ways of doing things.
I don't trust people either. Especially when you're talking very large numbers.
We spent a couple weeks looking at houses. Winter sucks for buying houses because there's not a lot of inventory out there. However, it can also be good because there's not a lot of buyers necessarily.
Then we got to deal with the rich asshole sellers. They bought this house in 2002 and watched it go up in the bubble and then crash back down. It's priced under the neighborhood and still wouldn't sell. The house was completely empty and not staged at all. Also, the house was a basic house for the neighborhoods. No upgrades whatsoever except for the granite countertops. Regardless, they still feel like their house is worth the top of the bubble price, don't have a mortgage on it and are content to sit on it and/or rent it until the market recovered. So they budged a little bit, but nothing appreciable. You could tell their realtor was tired of dealing with them and mine just couldn't believe them acting the way they were.
Now that I'm trying to close, the underwriters are nit picking every transaction in my checking account, pulling up jobs I haven't worked since college (we're talking almost 20 yrs ago). The appraiser messed up the appraisal, etc. Couldn't get my wife on the loan because they couldn't pull her credit. Amazingly I could though....
On the selling end, couldn't get the buyers to reply to anything. They took forever to get anything done they needed to do. It's like do you want to buy the house or not?
I'll be glad when this process is all over....
Sometime between now and Dec 17th....
Yeah. We're going to use the time to do anything we want to do to the house. Get the fridge delivered, etc. We'll slowly move things over and then move out of the apartment the week the lease expires.
My point was that my lease doesn't expire until Jan 26th. If I told them on Dec 17th that I was breaking my lease, I'd still owe them 60 days rent plus a 2 month penalty. So if I don't break my lease, but still turn in the keys, they could still possibly rent it back out should they find a tenant. So they'd be collecting the rent from me, plus the rent from the new people (thus double rent).
So they'll get the keys back on Jan 26th. Not a day sooner.