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Midweek Update: Home Selling

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A quick update from yours portly today, as I’ve been hustling to get my house ready to list.  Last week, my pastor (who just started a carpet cleaning business) did a deep clean of the house, which, of course, meant I had to deep clean before he arrived so he could get to the really bad stuff.  My mind boggles at how much junk I have accumulated in just seven years.

This morning my realtor came by with a photographer to get pictures of the house, so that required more organization, especially involving the artful concealment of things no one wants to see in pictures of a home—trashcans, the stuff you keep on the back of the toilet, etc.  I was really pleased when my realtor told me that I’d done a great job getting things together.

Now I’m just waiting for the disclosure paperwork, and soon my little home will be on the market officially.  Selling that will be a huge boon for Dr. Wife and me.  We currently own three homes between us, which sounds like some kind of decadent dream, but it’s really a huge time- and money-sink.  My house, fortunately, is paid off, thanks in part to the best bank of all, The First Bank of Mom and Dad.  The value has more than doubled (of course, the value of the dollar has probably halved) since I bought it, so I should walk away with a good profit, which will help to pay for the hefty mortgage on the new house.

Shew!  But I digress.  Please be praying that my house sells quickly—and Dr. Wife’s!  She’s had hers on the market since right before the wedding back in November, and while she’s had some showings, she hasn’t had any offers yet.  We need that albatross dropped onto some hapless chump happy new homeowner ASAP!

More to come.  Happy Wednesday!

—TPP

Wedding Week Madness

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It’s been a wild and wooly wedding week for yours portly and Dr. Fiancée.  Our closing on Monday went well, and I spent Tuesday morning visiting the DMV, the courthouse, and the city hall of our new town to get everything setup.  I was apparently so quick, the attorneys had not gotten the updated deed to the courthouse yet!

I also picked up our marriage license.  Dr. Fiancée and I applied for it on Monday, but South Carolina requires a twenty-four waiting period, I suppose to allow cooler heads (or shotguns) to prevail in the event of impulsive (or coerced) marriages.

The past few days—even the past few weeks!—have felt like a marathon of threading needles of time.  But it’s all coming together!

Now I’m just praying my tuxedo arrives at my local Men’s Wearhouse this afternoon, so I don’t have to make a special trip tomorrow.  If that’s the only snag in this wedding week, though, I’ll be very pleased!

Dr. Fiancée and I are super excited.  We’re also ready to disconnect for the honeymoon.

To that end, I’ll be running TPP’s Greatest Hits (or something like that) next week.  I’ll catch up on comments and such when we are back.

Just three days!  We’re so close!

—TPP

Closing

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Today Dr. Fiancée (she’ll be Dr. Wife as of Saturday afternoon!) and I are closing on a house in the small town where we’ll be moving once she completes residency.  We weren’t going to purchase a home at this point, but when another house we’d looked at went under contract, we started looking again.

The house we’re purchasing today had gone through a couple of price reductions since we’d first seen it on Zillow.  Dr. F looked at me and said, “I want this house,” so I went to work.

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