Got the call today, I have title and my mortgage. Good thing too, because today was my mental deadline before I sent them another email about “WTF is taking your lawyer so long?!?!”. I got a sweet update on my interest rate to 4.49% as well. Hopefully have the money by the end of the week and pay off all the massive debt I accumulated waiting for title…
I ordered this at the end of December for my Dining room table:
2 of these in Brown for the heads of the table: Miguel
3 of these, two white and one brown for the kitchen side of the table: Valencia (actually, this is a similar chair from Nuevo, I bought a cheaper knock off of this chair. Alas, no picture of that can be found on the interwebs).
And for my bar:
3 of these, I can remember what colors: Opener
Once it’s all here (I got the table last week), I’ll post some pictures of my kitchen for all to see.
To my condo has a forced air hot water furance. It’s something of a marvel of technology, being as loud as a possible and all… Anyways, the thermostat that they installed with it is a $20 piece of junk. It’s cut off for turning on and off basically guarrentees this place goes from hot to cold over and over again. This, was unfortunate. Even more so was that it would startle me awake at night.
Well, after a long wait to get in and about a month and a half; my loft is nearly complete. My kitchen is 95% done, waiting on some handles and a new drawer. My bathroom is complete as of yesterday. I bought a washer and dryer at the beginning of the month (after discovering doing laundry at the mat would pay for a washing machine a dryer in a year…). I’ve got 4 light fixtures installed and need to pick and order 4 more ( both bathrooms, dining table light and bar light). I also replaced the crappy analog thermostat with a digital one.
In the near future I hope to get some furniture for the place. Perhaps the big screen tv I was talking about for more than a year? Lamps for all the switched outlets… so it’s not so dark in here at night as well. There’s my whole bedroom do finish doing as well (I got a new bed frame and mattress, but I literally have no where to put clothes). It nearly feels like it’s coming to gather (despite my moments of despair where nothing seems to be going right).
In the far future, I’ll proably paint some walls. That’ll be something of a daunting task, which I may get a professional to do. I was keen on installing cork in the kitchen, but some people seem to think it would break the flow of the place. There is also some planned work for the up stairs bathroom, but I’m in no real hurry to get that done.
Well today I did a walk through of the condo. There were a few things left to be done, but overall I was impressed they did as much as they did over the week. An agreement to take possession while they continue to finish the remaining work was drafted as well. So, I got possession around noon today.
I took a few pictures, but the place was still a mess of various construction bits and pieces. I’m going back later tonight and expect I’ll be able to move a few things in and take more pictures.
Had my walk-through today. Here’s what they have to complete by the end of the week or I’m pooched.
When I got there this morning they had “JUST” started paining the unit. Since the last time I was there, they installed place holder light fixtures, the stairs and railing and finished installed the bathroom downstairs and up (sans the pedestal since of course). Can’t say I’m surprised so little was done since I last saw the place.
I received my notice of possession yesterday in the mail. The offical day I get the keys is Oct 3rd, 2008. I get a complimentry walk through on the 26th. I’ll take some pictures if there’s anything interesting to see. One month until I own a home again!
