WOW. Moving right along with all the crazy update posts. I will "circle back around" and say that my Otter Half did land the job. He blew his interview out of the water, so much so that the panel of interviewers all wanted to offer him a position. One was Compliance, one was the Property Management, and one was Marketing. Personally, I've never had that kind of response from an interview, so he was appropriately ecstatic. I've never really heard of someone being able to pick a roll they wanted to pursue, like this.
So I'm going to take a moment here to put it in the Cosmos that my other half is currently in the final steps of making a potential Career Transition. He has been working so insanely diligently to complete his Real Estate & Property Management education so that he can officially change into a more flourishing career.
After everyone shuttered their doors last year (and the resulting layoffs) due to Corona, we had a serious discussion about him wanting to change into a career path that offered more security in the long run. He is wonderful at everything he does, but the Hospitality/F&B/Bar Management industry was a difficult one to adjust to (I'll admit, it was me). The late hours, the intoxicated people... the whole vibe was unsettling for me. Yes, I'm the one with the insecurities.
Him.. being his normal, super receptive self, was on board with trying to get out of the current industry. We put our heads together and, oddly, it came to us while we were out grocery shopping -- Real Estate. We had been discussing what were some options that had quickest turn-around for lowest investment... and something that could supplement his Bachelor's Degree in Pre-Law.
We've been in the house for a little over 4 months and we've tackled a lot of our original projects. The most recent was using some of the surplus house brick to make planter boxes around the trees in the front yard.
I'm not sure if I blogged about that particular night - when we snuck out in the middle of the night to set aside a crap-ton of the excess brick after the house was done. Specifically for projects like this, I wanted the brick to match the house.
We are officially in the "teens" of our countdown. Which, is completely insane. Where did this year go?? I had my internal mantra defaulted to "we have all year for [ xx ]..." and now we don't. I can't even round it up to a full "month" anymore.
I am relieved - the apartment complex requires a 60 Day Notice of intent to extend/vacate, which put us at November 1 for that particular due date. So, I'm glad we have an official Closing Date for the house. It was a bit nerve wracking thinking about turning in a Move Out notice without officially knowing when we'd be able to Move In. It's bittersweet... this apartment has been amazing. It's beautiful & spacious, awesome location, fantastic wrap-around balcony.. but I know as soon as we get the keys to the house, it's going to be nothing but flat-out excitement and a flurry of activity. Honestly, I know we won't look back. I still can't believe we will be in the house before the Holidays.
I'm sitting here waiting for a call back from Ryan (our Mortgage Agent) to go over the finer details of the Loan. While I wait for that, I figured I'd update on the latest happenings with the house.
So we snuck by the house today.. Made our regular trip over to the house today. After we received the email of our closing date, but before we got our call-back to answer questions. Our call-back came right as we were pulling away from the house, actually.
We have a closing date!
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
I uploaded the last round of requested documents last night at 8pm, and I woke up to an email confirmation of a closing date appointment (and a missed call, but hey, my schedule is jacked right now). I had a few very-specific-but-unanswerable questions that I've been wanting to ask, but couldn't until I had a firm closing date.
So here we are, a couple days shy of Mid-October and the current construction manager has communicated that he should be "signing-off" on everything by the end of the week to go forward with scheduling a closing date.
There are only a few things remaining at the house [appliances to be delivered, hardware on cabinetry, sod in yard] but everything else is in place [carpets, toilets, light fixtures, water heater, A/C unit, trim, sinks/faucets, door handles, etc]. I've been trying to keep the Progress Pics Photo Gallery going as best I could.
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