A Collection of Thoughts.
Well. I purchased my first home on Friday. A nice two bedroom townhouse in North Tampa. Man, do I feel overwhelmed though, now that I’ve spent a couple days wandering around the place. I’m looking at what needs to be done, what needs to be fixed, where I need to paint (uhh… EVERYWHERE, almost?). I’m just realizing how big of a job I have ahead of me. I really have no motivation to do it, and that’s my problem so far, lol. I should just take the next month off of work (wouldn’t that be nice) and start taking care of everything.
I noticed that one of the toilets doesn’t work (the stopper when the toilet is refilling isn’t cutting off the water flow when it should be.)… and that I have a ceiling fan in the living room that is running for the foreseeable future until I get a step ladder so I can actually stop it…
Walking through the community on Sunday, however, I’m definitely very happy with my purchase, though. It’s very nice! I think I’ll get along well with my community, but we’ll see 
I’ll need to socialize! *gasp* I spent some time around the community pool with my cousin, he was my first “guest” to the house, even though it’s still empty. Hanging around the pool was great.
My trip to Canada and Massachusetts was absolutely awesome, and relaxing. Canada was so much fun, and so beautiful (I really do love Magog, just a small quaint town that’s still large enough for my tastes). My time in Massachusetts was basically read my books all morning, then go out during the afternoon/night. It was definitely relaxing, and much needed, especially since as soon as I got back into Florida it was running around while I closed on the condo and went to work. All over the damn place!
I really did have to go Cold Turkey when it came to technology while I was up in Canada. There was no way I wanted to accrue international charges. At first I was going to turn off my phone for the entire 3 days. But then turned my phone onto Airplane mode so I could at least play with the games on it, lol…
Of course, the running around is only getting worse as I realize everything that I have before me. I still have to make sure multiple places have my new address, not to mention some of those places I don’t even think have my new phone number (changed that like a month ago)… My old job in MA never contacted me back about my 401k, which is annoying, so I’m not too sure what to do there. But I guess it’s something I don’t need to fidget with right away.
I’m very relieved to finally have this blog back up and running, and I don’t believe any of the styling is out of place anymore. We’ll see how it goes. I HAVE noticed that the images from the previous blog posts are missing, so I know I need to figure out how I want to upload those again to make sure everything is back to normal.
So… How about them Red Sox? I am absolutely appalled by the sudden disastrous loss to the Yankees (we were SWEPT in a 4 game series???? WTF!)… What went wrong? What is Francona doing to remedy the situation? We need a turn around, and SOON. I could not believe the Sox went from 8-0 vs the Yankees this year, to 8-4, so quickly… JEEZ.
Guess that’s all I have in my mind for now.
Purchasing a Home
Honestly, does purchasing any home always have to be so complicated?
This is 5 months now since I first started searching, and about 4 months since I put an offer down on a condominium that was accepted.
I went to one bank, who had already pre-approved me for a certain amount of money prior to even picking the condo I wanted to go forward with. Going with the obvious option (an FHA loan) we start the process, and it requires changes to the condo documents (which we go forward with, but the bank says that the change wasn’t made everywhere, which isn’t true…)… so we decide that this bank just isn’t going to let it by. It was [in my opinion] a STUPID change in the condo that they said needed removed to “protect” me, as well as the bank… But it involved what happens after I die (and if my will [I'm 24...] said the place went to someone OTHER than Family)… so how does that protect ME… I’ll be dead, so how does that protect ME?
Anyways, I end up attempting to go through a different mortgage company. I go to a mortgage company that has access to a lot of other companies (I have no problem with the company that I’m going through). The new company we decide to go with requires specific things changed with the Appraisal that we had carried over from the previous bank… Things the appraiser refuses to change (for whatever reason)…
Basically the companies involved so far have been very anal about how “to the book” their work is, ever since the housing crash, and while it’s a Buyers Market these days, the banks are so picky that it’s making buying a condo/home really annoying for me… *sigh*
I’m beyond frustrated… and I just don’t know what to do next…