Might we actually close tomorrow????

Our closing date last week came and went. We had the builder number in time. Found it on the list first thing Tuesday morning, but we found out the builder is just not that bright. Not sure if he's never sold a house before in his life, or what, but it was pretty ridiculous. The lender needed a copy of the floor plan of the house and the specs. By specs, it means a list of the items that are included in the house (IE... appliances, fixtures, etc) and the materials used for building the house. The dude sent a mission statement for his company. What the heck?!?

So, finally the underwriters decided to accept what he submitted. But, there was no way that we were going to close in time, so we had to file yet another amendment so that we could push our closing date back to October 22nd. We were told that we might be able to close before then, but we all knew that it was going to get pushed until the last possible minute.

Which brings us to now, and yes, once again, we are on the brink of closing, and there is no telling where we are at. We are hoping that we will close sometime tomorrow morning so funding will take place the same day and we'll be able to move in on Thursday. Our lender cleared us to close on Monday afternoon, the closing dept. should be sending all of our paperwork to the title company today (hopefully as I type this so that they can assemble the packet and get approval to close in time for us to be ready in the morning), and then we'll have the dollar amount so Trey can swing by the bank on the way home to have a bank check drafted for tomorrow.

In the meantime, I am packing. We are going to have to do this move really really fast. Try Thursday. Trey will have one day off next week, Tuesday, and that will be just enough to change over from working nights to days. He then won't have a day off until his birthday on Nov. 3rd, and that's the only day off he has off for the entire month of November. They are doing a huge maintenance overhaul at the power plant, and he'll be working 84 hours of week. That's 12 hours a day with no days off. Not even Thanksgiving.

Mom and I got a good jump on our packing last week when she was down here. Kathryn and I will be working on some this afternoon, and I imagine mom and I will finish up pretty quick when she gets here. We're excited, but for some reason whenever we move it's always unclear up until the last possible second. A pain, but not much else we can do about it. We are the ones that are held in limbo.

Back to stuffing junk in boxes... Will update when I know more. :)