The Moving Experience
So I said no more angsty posts about moving… well, I lied.
Moving was a relatively painless process: Lori, her parents, and I loaded up a U-Haul truck and prepped the house for moving. We stayed at a hotel on Sunday night (because everything was packed) and Monday morning we went to the title company to close on the sale of our house. Signing all the paperwork to complete the sale went by quickly and we were out of there before 10:00 AM. After that, we picked up the animals and the U-Haul, and we drove to Moore.
The drive itself was nice, but what happened during the drive kind of sucked. I got a call from our mortgage company saying that they hadn’t completed some of the paperwork needed to close, and that we’d have to close on either Thursday or Friday. This really upset me because we first came to the mortgage company two months ago about buying the house and they had plenty of time to get everything together.
In a panic, I ended up griping them out over the phone three times. We had really planned on being able to close on Tuesday so now we’d have to impose on my mom longer, pay additional days for a U-Haul truck, and try to get Lori’s start date at her new job pushed back to Monday (if possible).
It is very frustrating and I’m finding it hard to restrain myself from writing something I’ll regret later. I won’t go into details, but I’ve never dealt with a mortgage company that was so unorganized and seemingly disintrested in completing a deal on time. It also kind of sucks because the company we went through is family of a friend, so now my trust in recommendations is a bit shaken.
I think for now I just need to calm down and keep the bigger goal in mind: getting into the house of my proverbial dreams (for that is what it really is. If you’ve seen the house, I think you’d agree).
Oh, last thing: Since I’ve sold my house in Arkansas and am still waiting to close on my house in Oklahoma, does that make me homeless? 
May 9th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
Unfortunately what you’re going through is completely normal. Be thankful it’s only a few days. When my wife and I were buying our house we got bumped back for 2 weeks and ended up moving up in with my in laws over Thanksgiving.
May 10th, 2006 at 7:20 am
I’ve heard that more and more from people. I guess I was spoiled when we bought our first house and we were able to close on time without any problems whatsoever. *sigh* I’m just tired of the entire process.
May 10th, 2006 at 10:08 am
Now we just need pictures of your house. That’s awesome that you guys will be so much closer. I really miss the OK crowd, I’m sure we’ll be up to visit sometime later. Probably between my summer Semester and Fall classes.
So now that you’ll be closer to family, and be settled into great jobs and a nice house……. TAG YOU’RE IT. Time to start thinking about little Tims and Loris
May 12th, 2006 at 7:33 am
Im sorry to hear about the trouble. I would be upset as well and probably as much as you if they let me leave the place and then called me. Thanks your experience though when I do this in a few month Ill know to ask and make them check before I leave.
I wonder if you can get them sign something that says if your not all done you get the house for free. =)