Might be a while.

The inspection came back with quite a few things, which I guess could be expected. The house is old. It looked a little daunting at first glance, but I think it's manageable. I'll need an ac guy, electrician, plumber, handyman, and someone to fix the seawall.

I've already talked to the first 4 and all of them can get right on it. It seems like maybe like the trade guys aren't swamped as they seem to have been not too long ago. Economy slowdown?

I hope I never have to buy or sell a house again.

Another pro tip - don't hire a real estate agent that is your personal friend.

Things are moving along with the house sale. Well, some things. One of my contractors said he would fix the tub and replace the water heater on Wednesday. Haven't heard from him. Seawall guy said he was out there yesterday to patch it. Haven't heard from him either. Well, when he got to the house he noticed that the lock box was open and the key was in the door. Hmmm....... Starting to believe there's a mysterious presence at the house making contractors disappear.

Title company is moving along.

House is getting appraised today. That seems a little long after the initial contract was signed, but oh well. Fingers crossed.

Boat lift is coming along. Posts are in and the lift is on. They are currently wiring everything. The rain has buggered them some. Might not get done today, but things are moving.

Novel is coming along quite well. I'm happy with the plot and the characters. I just need to get the words down. Then edit them. Again. And again...... At least I don't have any writer's block or anything.

Texted both contractors. Nothing. One has already done work for me and the other was at the house already.

Very mysterious.

Probably next door partying.

We decided to drive over to check everything out. All of the work has been completed. Weird that two different contractors finished work and neither has asked for money.I didn't advance either of them. Strange.

All repairs completed and paperwork sent to whoever needs to see it.

Still sweating the appraisal. Hopefully we are ok.

On a positive note, boat lift is complete! I feel much better now that it is sitting on a lift that is rated for a much heavier boat. Peace of mind.

One more thing. Microsoft sucks. Just sayin'.

Holy Moly this title company. Didn't hear from them. Didn't hear from them. No closing date. Nothing.

Finally, today, they are setting up a mobile notary to come tomorrow. One day's notice. Jeez.

But hey, the house is almost out of our hair. Halelujia (or however you spell it).

I'm able to spend about 3 hours, 4 days a week, on the novel. Not really much time but life happens. My struggle now is to not make it too complicated. I keep wanting to embellish secondary characters and I think it's getting a bit messy. Still feel good about the story, not so good about the actual writing.

Congratulations on (one hopes) getting rid of the party-adjacent house tomorrow!

A great story can survive less than stellar writing. A terrible story is terrible no matter how well it is written. Keep going. The only way to get better is practice (and good beta readers).

)^&$)%@!!!!

Just got word that the bank needs one more something or other from the buyer's accountant. They think they will get it tomorrow but are postponing closing until a week from today. WHAT THE LITERAL ****

Thanks!

I know you were in IT or development back in those days, so I assume a pretty ****-together person.

Does it frustrate you as well, when things seem like they should be checklisted and something comes up?

Just today, I got a reminder from the utility company that my payment's close. However, the amount was less than the bill I got last week. After searching around their website and finding no explanation, I called them up.

Turns out my credit for the amount my solar panels produced last year was applied in the interim. Why doesn't it show on the payments list? Well, it's a credit, not a payment.

Of course, suggesting that a) no difference to me and b) perhaps they should re-label that tab and show any kind of credit went nowhere. Frustrating, as it shold be a change on the order of 1-2 hours. Literally, make that tab query for both types, and change the label. That's it, and that's all. Sigh.

Yes, stuff like that drives me insane.

Some time this year I will be inventing the debit, along with T accounts, and all will be solved.

Up until the 12th Century, a lot of people had the same problem as Goldog's utility company.

Closed on the house! Woot.

Congratulations!

Over in P&S, you mentioned going fishing. (I read, but don't feel qualified to comment there). Anything good from the sea?

Grouper and snapper. The water is still a bit cold for the pelagics to show up.

I need to stay out of P&S. It brings out the worst in me.

Only because many of the posters there are, in fact, the worst people.

Let's go back to fishing.

We've got a few things that we kinda want to do with the new house. It really doesn't need anything, but a couple of things might make things a little better.

We've been thinking about putting our AC unit on the roof. It's on the patio and crazy loud in the summer when we want to sit out. A lot of our neighbors have theirs on the roof. Not sure how much that will cost. Might be on our "maybe later" list.

Our next project I think only requires a bit of sweat and not much money.

We don't have any water outlet at the dock. It's a pain to not only run hoses to the boat and cleaning table, but the watering the back yard is a pain as well. We have to run 100' hoses from our screened in porch. Pain in the butt.

We initially thought we might just try to tap into the faucet on the porch, but that would require pulling up a LOT of pavers. We don't really want to go there. So, we have another faucet on the side of the house that we think we're going to tap into. It's going to require a lot of trenching but little disruption to our patio. I've thought about trying to find the water line coming into the house but forget that.

I'm just going to try to put a T on the faucet coming out of the wall.

Here is the faucet (pic from the top)



Here is what I think I'm going to try to do

On the AC, a couple things to think about:

If it's loud, make sure it's located well away from sleep areas. Also, consider maintenance up there vs on the ground.

I don't use my AC, so can't really say if noise and problems are correlated or not.

Yeah, the logical place to put it based on where it is, is right above our bedroom. Right now it is right next to our bedroom window so I'm not sure if it would be worse.

Fortunately, my next door neighbor owns an AC company so I can get the scoop from him.

LOL, we would die if we didn't use our AC.