Update on the Stokes House

Posted on August 9, 2006

Our attorney assures us that by the end of today we will be out of attorney review.  Basically, attorney review is where the lawyers for both us and the sellers look over our contract that states that we will purchase thier house.  Now that we are out of attorney review, the house will be considered “under contract.”

We also had the inspections and the appraisal today.  I barely spoke to the appraiser, (the real estate lady, Karen, stayed with her) but the inspector was quite chatty.  It looks like the current owners did a wonderful job renovating the house.  All of the appliances are new, the roof is new, the plumbing upstairs is new, and the heater is new.  The current owners are also the most anal record keepers I have ever met.  They have every receipt, manual, and document for everything they have done to the house.

The next step is for John and I to look over the inspection report and decide if we want them to fix any of the minor issues the inspector did point out.  As far as I can tell, everything is coasting along smoothly.

We also recieved our closing packet for our house in Colorado, so we’ll be looking over that and sending that on.  It looks like this might be the easiest close in history.  The people buying our house didn’t want us to fix anything, and financing seems to be going along smoothly.  We are on schedule to close on the 18th of this month.  This will obviously be a huge relief for John and I, considering the money to buy the new house is coming out of this sell.

Chloe is still as adorable as ever.  She just recently started noticing the bubbles at Gymboree, so I bought some bubble juice.  Legolas also likes the bubbles.  Please view our gallery for more pictures of the stokes house and pictures of us playing with bubbles.