Tuesday, December 8, 2009

of Toesies and Tidings

Mom just loves my toes. Can you blame her? I work the kyoot by dangling my toes through the bottom of the top tier of the tower. hehe.

This past weekend, Mom seemed quite annoyed about the condo situation. It has been about 5 months since she put in the offer on a nice 3 bedroom 2 bath condo and the seller chose to go with her offer. But, Mom knew she had to be patient because it was a short sale. Still, things seemed a bit funky with the selling realtor constantly saying, "Just give it a few more days" which then turned into weeks and months. So, this past weekend, Mom's realtor found out that the property was in foreclosure and the selling realtor didn't tell us anything! Grrr... Yesterday, the selling realtor finally said that the bank had rejected Mom's offer and sent a cancellation contract (which was dated December 4, last Friday... more grrrrr...)

However, there was another opening in the same complex for a 2 bedroom 2 bath place. It is smaller, but cheaper and more importantly NOT a short sale... Mom and Grandma went over and took a look. I think Grandma was more impressed with the place than Mom (but then, Mom had a run-in with a rather rude tenant just before going into the place over an empty assigned parking spot... it was Mom's fault as she did park there, but she did start off with an apology whereas the tenant started off with: "Are you in my parking spot? Get out!" in a gruff tone). At any rate, Mom decided to make an offer on it (despite mean neighbors, well, maybe the lady had rough morning and just took it out on Mom) and...

Yay! Her offer was accepted!!! So, today, Mom will be signing a bunch of papers and hopefully, everything will go smoothly and she can buy this condo and move in the beginning of January!

We're very happy! Uh-oh, I think Mom wants to take pictures of me and Chani for Christmas... Oh dear...

11 comments:

  1. Sounds like the condo situation went from not good to excellent pretty quickly! All paws (and we have 32 of them at the moment!!!) crossed it works out just fine this time!

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  2. Congratulations. Hope everything goes well.

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  3. As soon as the Crank gets a load of you two beauties, she's sure to soften up. Congrats on the new digs!

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  4. Congratulations! Mom will be busy packing to move in the condo :)

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  5. Sweet pictures from the top of your tree! Congratulations on the condo.

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  6. How utterly annoying. We are sorry to hear your mom didn't get the first condo. But she was very lucky to have her offer on the second one accepted. Concats!

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  7. Yea on the new condo! I am sure everything will work out with the new neighbor. Looking forward to seeing your Christmas pictures! :)

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  8. Yay for the new condo! Sounds very exciting :)

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  9. congratulations!! i've finally given up on my offer and put in an application to rent a place. these banks can go suck it. :\

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  10. I'm right there with you on that one, Angie! Banks... bah humbug on them!

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  11. Hooray! Oh man, I know how frustrating looking for a new home is. The things realtors don't tell you ...

    9 and Chani are beautiful. Love the toe shot.

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