Just in case you were following the trials and tribulations of Sahm and S.Rod’s Excellent Real Estate Adventure, here’s an update.

Yes, the rumblings among the villagers are true: we are now officially homeowners. The closing took place on Friday and everything went through without any major hitches. But why am I not completely joyous right now? Because we did not move into the unit. It turns out that there are a lot of punchlist items which are incomplete. It would be difficult (if not impossible) to address these things with all of our belongings in the unit. So now, we can only hope that everything can be cleared up by week’s end.

On the bright side, it is very nice to have a set of keys again, after living out of a couple of boxes while sleeping on a sofa bed for the past month. But I’m not bitter… maybe a tad bit sour on the whole ‘new house high’ thing, but certainly not bitter.

After all, once everything is in place, the next level of life shall begin. You’ll see.

P.S. Pictures coming soon, I promise. Cheers.

Are you ready for pain? Are you ready for suffering? If the answer is yes, then you’re ready to purchase your first home!

. . . That’s the ticket: no pain, no gain.

Sure, go ahead, make jokes. In all seriousness, we went into the situation of buying a home with the most optimistic of intentions. At the time, we could not truly grasp how people could get completely miserable in the midst of a process which was bringing you something that you have always wanted.

But now we understand, now we too have felt the pain and suffering of dealing with all of those annoying things that you never encountered when we were renting and carefree.

It’s been a rollercoaster over the past two months. But, you know that point in the ride when you’ve gone through your last loop and you can feel the sled starting to slow, that you’re just a few hundred slow yards from when the safety railing pops back up, and you step off? Yeah, we’re right there. We know that the ride is just about to end.

Now if we can just hold down our lunch…

The past 3 weeks have been mentally and physically exhausting between all of the issues I mentioned here.

But as of today, I am living in a state (Connecticut) other than the one I’ve lived in for the past 12 years (New York). That, and I am presently homeless. Well, just for 2 weeks, until the renovations on our new place are completed… but technically that’s the gist of it.

I hope to have pictures uploaded of the new place soon… cheers.