That Corner House: We Moved!

Monday, April 28, 2014

We Moved!

So I know I'm a little late (ok, really late) posting our move-in pictures, but it's been a crazy (extremely fun & exciting) three (edited: four) weeks since we moved in.

Our Closing Journey
I have to say though, closing (or rather the days leading up to closing) weren't all smooth sailing. We were told by numerous people to NOT plan on moving the same day as Settlement. We decided to go against all recommendations, and went ahead and scheduled our move with Two Marines Moving for the same time as Closing, 11am Friday 4/4. Well, that week came, Wednesday came and went and we still hadn't heard from the Title company as to how much we owed them. My grandmother, our Realtor, said that was pretty unusual, as she usually hears from the company at least 2 days in advance. This put us in quite the predicament because we didn't know how much money we should pull out and have with us at Closing. Well, Thursday came, 2pm came around and we were told that Fannie Mae's computer system went down earlier in the week and there was a huge backlog of paperwork (you mean we're not their only clients?), so our closing time would inevitably be pushed back. Luckily, it was only 2 hours, so we pulled out what we had estimated we'd need and we could hardly wait for Friday!

Re-Walk
Friday morning, the re-walk went fine. Most of the little things had been fixed, the hardware in the kitchen had been swapped out, leaving me happier and more pleased (if that was even possible) than I had been before! Off to Panera we went to kill some time and eat breakfast, then HH Gregg to buy a washer/dryer (was delivered Saturday!). Then, out to Closing we went! It went so well, and very quickly too. With keys in hand, we were off to pop a bottle of champagne in our new home. It was quite the afternoon, and following our quick celebration, we were back to the apartment to celebrate with my parents at happy hour, and finish packing.

Packing Up, Moving Out
Ok, so we had a lot more stuff than we thought. That's the story. There's really no other way to say it. But Two Marines Moving played an amazing game of Jenga had happened to fit it all (plus more that we gave them at the last minute that didn't fit into our car) into the truck. Out to the house we all went and unloading the truck went very smoothly. No dings in the walls, no scratches, no battle wounds.

You really don't care about all of this, do you?! Here are the latest move-in photos from the house! We've since put in furniture on all floors. I already have a few entries in the queue for this week displaying what we've done in the last four weeks, so check back later!