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Wish us luck - buying new house

Walt_K — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:00:20 GMT

Complete renovations on our condo this week. Listing the condo by Saturday. Looking at new properties this weekend. Moving in with mother-in-law in the meantime (bless her). Can't wait for all of this to be finished. Another big thanks to the myfico community.

Kind regards,

Walt

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Booner72 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:13:33 GMT

Goooo, Walt!!!

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MarineVietVet — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:26:58 GMT

@Walt_K wrote:
Complete renovations on our condo this week. Listing the condo by Saturday. Looking at new properties this weekend. Moving in with mother-in-law in the meantime (bless her). Can't wait for all of this to be finished. Another big thanks to the myfico community.

Kind regards,

Walt

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Walt_K — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:10:23 GMT

@MarineVietVet wrote:
@Walt_K wrote:
Complete renovations on our condo this week. Listing the condo by Saturday. Looking at new properties this weekend. Moving in with mother-in-law in the meantime (bless her). Can't wait for all of this to be finished. Another big thanks to the myfico community.

Kind regards,

Walt

Haha. I have no complaints. It will be a bit crowded for a short time, but I get along great with my mother-in-law.

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MarineVietVet — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:19:59 GMT

@Walt_K wrote:

Haha. I have no complaints. It will be a bit crowded for a short time, but I get along great with my mother-in-law.

A rare son-in-law indeed!! My congratulations.

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem".

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Walt_K — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:30:16 GMT

For all I know, she's the one posting weepy smileys.

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Anonymous — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:37:31 GMT

@Walt_K wrote:
For all I know, she's the one posting weepy smileys.

LOL!!

All the best, Walt_K!!

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boomhower — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:56:55 GMT

Good luck! I've spent almost a year living with my father in-law to enable us to save money to buy a house. Hopefully by the end of the month that experience will be over with. It sucks but worth it in the long run..

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Walt_K — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:51:14 GMT

One of the properties we were supposed to view on Saturday just wen under contract. Oh well.

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Walt_K — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:14:54 GMT

Put an offer in on a house this evening. According to the other agent, we're bidding against someone else. Who knows if that is true. We'll see what happens.

We also listed our condo last night and had someone come to see it today, so that seems like a good sign.

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Anonymous — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:26:26 GMT

We are looking to buy also towards the end of the year but we need to sell our house first. I wish we were able to afford both mortgages at the same time, as our current house would show MUCH better without kid toys and other misc clutter out of the way.

Good luck both on finding a new place and selling the old!

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Walt_K — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:50:34 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
We are looking to buy also towards the end of the year but we need to sell our house first. I wish we were able to afford both mortgages at the same time, as our current house would show MUCH better without kid toys and other misc clutter out of the way.

Good luck both on finding a new place and selling the old!

The original plan was to sell our condo before putting in an offer, or at least be under contract on the condo, but I've seen several units in our building sell fairly quickly recently, and we saw something that we really liked, so we decided to go for it. If I have to carry both properties for a while, it won't be great, but we are fortunate to be able to swing it if need be. I know what you mean about the kid toys and clutter. I don't even recognize my condo after we moved everything out of it and fixed it up.

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Walt_K — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:52:39 GMT

I now feel everyone's pain that has had to wait through this process. It is maddening. We put in an offer on Sunday. We were told we'd hear something today. It's not like that's even a long time, but I feel like it is taking forever. Can't concentrate on work. Keep updating the listing to make sure it hasn't gone under contract to someone else. Keep checking e-mail. Promise myself I won't call my agent again to confirm he still hasn't heard anything. Ugh. A couple days ago I wasn't even sure I wanted to put in the offer.

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MBOhio2 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:08:40 GMT

I'm a little late here, but good luck Walt_K! I hope your offer is accepted!!

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Walt_K — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:05:15 GMT

@MBOhio2 wrote:
I'm a little late here, but good luck Walt_K! I hope your offer is accepted!!

Thanks! We were competing against another buyer. Found out today that the other buyer walked away. We expect them to counter our offer tonight or tomorrow morning.

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payingoffdebt001 — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:12:19 GMT

Awesome! and good luck in selling the condo quickly!!

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Walt_K — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:06:56 GMT

@payingoffdebt001 wrote:
Awesome! and good luck in selling the condo quickly!!

Thanks! We are now under contract on the house! Next step, getting that condo sold. The seller on the house wanted 70 days to close, so it actually works out well, giving us plenty of time to get the condo sold.

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Walt_K — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:30:09 GMT

Closing this Thursday on the new house. Heard from the lender today that everything is set, the only thing left for them to do is pull my credit one last time before close. That shouldn't be an issue. Haven't apped for anything, and I'm showing only 1% utilization. We'll move the last of our stuff out of the condo on Friday, and then get our remaining things out of storage on Saturday.

And we are under contract on our condo as well. Scheduled to close on the condo sale on May 8.

Can't wait!

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Anonymous — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:12:37 GMT

That's fantastic!! So glad for you

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Anonymous — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:17:18 GMT

So fantastic!! Congrats!!