Sold!

Well, it looks like I have cleared the next hurdle toward buying the new home in Colorado. I sold my beloved “Cybil” - my 2006 Honda Civic SI. (I called her Cybil because she had two very distinct personalities on the road, depending on how hard I rode the accelerator.) Now, I’ll be sharing “Helga”, Paul’s Honda Pilot. Helga is a strong beasty broad with wide child-birthing hips. She in no way makes me appear young and thin to other drivers like Cybil did. Well, so much for those traffic light flirtations.

For those of you who might be buying a home in the near future, you might want to go and get your colonoscopy photographs now. Lenders these days are so strict that they’ll likely want to look up your ass.

So, next we’ll order the appraisal and see if the property is “worth” what the builder says it is. No worries there – if it comes in low, we’ll renegotiate the sales price, or scrap the deal. If it comes in high, then I’ll buy it at the already agreed upon price. There is also a mound of paperwork yet to be signed, all even before we get to the closing table.

If the next couple of weeks go smoothly, my last day in Florida will be August 21. I will fly to Colorado to sign the paperwork, and stay there until Paul arrives, working from a desk at my father's house. Paul will bring the few belongings that we moved to Florida with, by driving Helga yet again across the country. Road trip anyone?