Well, it has been a hectic week. I got with my broker and signed a stack of papers, then over the weekend I was on and off the phone with him for negotiations three or four times before he said, “You own a house now.”

Yesterday, I met him at the house and we signed another stack of papers, confirming the agreement. Basically four copies for everything, one for the buyer, one for the seller and one for each of the agents involved, all in blue ink to show that it isn’t a photoocopy. I also handed over my ernest money check, so the home is mine in all but name now. Between the amount he came down on the price, plus paying closing costs and repairs, the seller came down $10k. That makes my home an official “steal.”

The next step is to make an appointment with a home inspector, get his report and haggle what items on his punch list will be repaired by either me or the seller.

The closing is at the end of July, which will allow me to give 30 days notice to my present landlord, and then quickly move out of the apartment and the storage facility where stuff from my Bartlett house has been sitting for nigh on 10 years now.

No, I am not going to put a picture of the house up on the blog. I don’t want those pacifist Liberals throwing things like eggs or Molotov Cocktails at it.