Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Mother of the bride dress


My mom works on the north slope oil fields. She works a four and two schedule. For all who are not familiar with this common slang of oil field schedule...this means she works four weeks on and then has two weeks off. They have schedules like this since you have to fly in and out of the North Slope. So while she was home we went shopping for her dress...she has lost a lot of weight and is looking amazing!!! Here is her dress...I will post pictures of her at our first fitting:)

Friday, October 3, 2008

ahhh selling

OK so I went over all the offers and one was over full price. So I took accepted that one. Well, everything was going great! The inspection had come back and there was NOTHING wrong. My agent said it was the cleanest inspection she had EVER seen. Not one thing mentioned! A day later my buyer backs out?!?! What? He said he wasn't comfortable with the crime rate in the area...uh you probably should have checked that prior to going into contact and paying for an inspection? Idiot!

Luckily the other couple with the full price offer had not found anything and was still very interested! So we let them know our other buyer fell through and gave them the chance to place another offer. They did plus had lower our input of closing cost. woo hoo! Even better! Also I have to have it said that we listed my place way above what we should have because we were expecting to have to bargain the price back and forth...I NEVER EXPECTED ANYONE TO OFFER A FULL PRICE! I bough the place about 10k under the appraised price at that time. I have put about 5k into the place, however considering the comps for the area we are sitting on about 15k of equity. Yet, Warren thought my upgrades made it the best property in the area and insisted we list it above the recommended price by our agent, So we did...So we are very very excited to be getting A LOT of extra $$ out of the condo that can be used for the wedding! YAY! OK back on track, so everything is going great and the appraiser pulled comp from other areas in relatively close proximity due to mine being the nicest he had ever seen in the area:) Now we are due to close on/or before the 30th of this month!! Woo Hoo huge house here we come!!! oh yeah and then we can get back to wedding stuff since all of our stuff is packed right now!