More details on the house

Ok here are more details on the house.

3 bedrooms
2 baths
small family room
large back and front yards (1/4 of an acre)
concrete block house
shed in back is a permanent structure with electricity
lots of parking including carport
nice neighborhood
1800 square feet (2200 with the car port)

and it comes with a dog buahahahaha! The owners are moving to another city and their apartment doesnt allow pets. She was joking and asked if we wanted a dog. i asked her if she was an outside dog and she said yes. I said ok we will keep her. yes I am insane. She is a sweet sheperd/rottweiler mix.

She was asking 319k (which it was totally worth), we offered 310k. We agreed on 314k. Nothing needs to be done to it, its perfect.

We HAVE a house!!!!

AFter much searching we found out house. Contract is being signed tomorrow. we worked out most of the details today. Its one that we looked at this morning. We LOVE it. Here are a few pictures of it:


This is the shed in the back of the house

Micha I am praying for you

Micha we are all pulling for you to get through this both physically and mentally. I love you and am praying for you!

Today is gonna be a busy day

Along with trying to get the offer in on this house, Lexi has her ortho appointment today. Hopefully we will find out if they are gonna let her out of her brace for a few hours a day. Oscar is taking her this afternoon. Her appointment is at 3:45.

I am really scared

We have decided on a house. It has been on the market for 80 days with no offers. Its in an excellent neighborhood but needs to be upgraded. (It has 80's style carpet). The people who have looked at it didn't buy it based on the upgrades. They would rather spend and extra 30k for one that is upgraded. Well we don't have that luxury. So I want to make an offer on this house based on the neighborhood. THe house is in perfect condition. We are offering them 305k and they are asking for 319k. I am pretty sure they will take it becasue they are desperate to sell it. They relocated for a job and have been carrying the house too long. Here is a link to the picture of the house. We will be going back there on Saturday and I will take some more pictures.



Its about 2000 square feet with a 2 car garage. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a patio which was converted into a florida room (we can use it as an office) and it also has a den. The living space of the house is about 1600 square feet so it will be plenty of space for me, oscar, Lexi and my sis. Hopefully I will know today if they are gonna accept it or not.

My poor child

Lexi is cutting 3 molars at once.


I just hope that she can get some sleep, the poor baby is miserable.

The losers with the black cloud over their heads

Thats right. That would be us. We didn't get the house. They accepted the other offer because they don't have a house to sell. Real nice. So they are using us as a back up offer in case it falls through, whatever. I hope that it does fall through and that when they ask us that we have something 10 times better then that house. Boy I am bitter aren't I? I am just so over the bad news already. I thought 2006 was going to be a better year for us, now I am not so sure.

Anyway, the buyers of our house have to do their inspection by the 31st. Lets hope that the inspection goes well and that they dont try to back out.

Ok thats my poor me post for the day.

Pictures of house

We found our house

We found our house. Its smaller than our current house but because of the layout it looks alot bigger. It has a nice sized living room. The rooms are kinda on the small side, but its not like we will be in them that often. Our room is gonna be alot smaller which means finding another place for the computer desk, but that is ok.

It has a screened in patio behind the house as well as a kidney shaped pool. Lexi's room will be a little smaller, but I don't really think she is gonna notice.

When my sister moves in she will get the third bedroom and we will ultimately enclose half of the patio and make a den/office in the back of the house since we will be currently using the third bedroom as an office. There is also a 2 car garage so there is lots of room for storage.

Now there is only one problem. We aren't the only ones to put an offer on this house. So we are actually giving them what they are offering in hopes that they will accept our offer. The way things have been going for us lately we won't get it (can you tell I am a pessimist?). I will be on pins and needles until we find out. We should know by tomorrow at noon. I would really like for something to go our way for a change and this would be a start! So we will know soon enough. I really hope that we arent going to be doing more house hunting this weekend. That would be a real bummer.

We have a contract

The guy came up to 225k on his price. So now we have an executed contract. Now all we need is to pass this guys inspection and we are all set. He has 10 days to do his inspection. Lets keep our fingers crossed... I can't stand this anymore!

and yet MORE bad news

We had our homeowner's association meeting last night. There is going to be a special assessment of $500 for damages from hurricane Wilma. That is actually better than I expected so I am ok with that.

The bad news is that we may be dropped by our current insurance carrier. They are claiming that since the second floor of our townhouses are frame that we should be classified as frame. The entire first floor and foundation is concrete block. So the association is hiring and engineer and architect to try to fight this determination. If we are dropped then we have to go with Citizens (the only company that will insure in florida). And they can charge us the highest possible rate allowed by the state plus an 11% surcharge that they are chargin all policy holders. This would DRAMATICALLY increase our monthly fees which are already almost 300 a month.

If we get dropped and our fees go up up 200 a month we can forget about getting anyone to buy this place. Noone could afford the fees. We should find out sometime in March as to what the outcome of this will be. SO we may just be staying put and trying to scrape some money together in order to fix this damn place up.

I can honestly say that life is sucking bigtime right now.

The nerve of some people!

My realtor called me yesterday to say that someone faxed an offer over on the house. they didn't even see it but they know the floor plan and the area. They made us low ball offer of 215k. Umm hello, we are selling it for 239k?!?!?!?

So we counter offered at 235k firm with no repair allowance (we are selling as is) and we want a 60 day close. So he came back with giving us a 30-90 day close but he still wants his price of 215k! He provided his "proof" of why we should sell it to him for that price. Our neighbor sold theirs in October for 221k and they have a screened in porch and upgrades. BUT he doesn't realized that they sold low becasue they were moving out of state.

Whatever, we are countering again. This will be my last one and if he doesn't like it then he can try to buy one of the other ones that are on the market for 250k. We are agreeing to the 215 ONLY if he pays all of our closing costs and his. I know he won't go for it, but I sure as hell am not gonna have someone bully me. We can't buy another house affordably with selling this place at 215k. Sorry buddy, I would rather stay here then get screwed by you.

Aaaah the joys of working

Bossman broke his ankle in 2 places over the weekend. yesterday I spent the afternoon over at his house setting up his internet with the computer guy and bringing over misc. stuff to him.

Today I need to go over there and set up his fax machine. I am also going to be playing "courier" to his house daily for whatever he needs from the office or vice versa. Its the little things that make you feel like a total peon.

Fun with finger foods

Lexi is FINALLY starting to eat finger foods by herself. THis morning we made pancakes and I gave one cut up to her, I fed her one piece and then she started taking pieces off the plate and feeding herself. I was so thrilled that I went out and bought her a breakfast in bed tray, sat her on the floor and put the tray in front of her. At lunch I put meat sticks and dices carrots in front of her to see what she would do. She fed herself about 2 and a half meat sticks (I fed her the rest) and about 4 or 5 pieces of the carrots ( again I fed her the rest). So from now on we are gonna feed her with us. Tonight we are having crab stuffed salmon with squash. The perfect meal for her. We have 3 months before she starts daycare, so if anything she will at least be able to feed herself!

Here is a video of lexi feeding herself a meatstick. The quality kinda sux because it was taken from Oscar's new cel phone.

Sitter update

So I found a daycare for Lexi. Its the same price as what we are paying now (150 a week). She will be around a lot of other kids her age at least.

Unfortunately they don't take newborns so if we had another child we would have to find another daycare for the baby (which would be around 175 a week So that is where we are right now. If anything at least we will have lexi set up somewhere. If things change between now and May we can always adress it later.

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National De-Lurk Week!

Ok, I stole this from Jen, who stole it from Alex, who stole it from Andrea. Come out come out wherever you are! If you read my blog I wanna know...and I want names LOL!

And yet another dream dies

Just when I decided that we would "consider" having a second another possible bomb has been dropped on us.

First a little history. My baby sitter is a friend of ours that is a SAHM. When we were talking about moving out of state they were going to come with us. Well due to hurricane Wilma their trailer was damaged. Well the insurance company totalled it and they got the insurance check today. Her husband walks in the door and screams "we're outta here". So it looks like they are going ahead and leaving the state. Her husband is a mechanic and can get work anywhere. It's not that easy for us unfortunately. She doesn't want to leave and they are "discussing" it tonight.

I called a daycare center by my house and it would be 200 a week for them to watch lexi. If we had a second it would be 350 a week, and that is the norm. So right now it looks like a second isn't possible and in all honesty I am devastated. I really want lexi to have a brother or sister, but we just can't afford 1400 a month. thats 60% of my salary. Needless to say this is really depressing me. I am gonna shop around for daycare but its not looking pretty so far.

Leslie (Lindseysmum)

This is related to my weird thing #5 (see below post)

When i was pregnant and in the hospital when they had decided i needed an emergency C-section my mom and oscar were in the room with me. My mom Looked down and said "oh they already shaved you" and I was loopy from the epidural and the demoral they had given me earlier, so I said to her "no mom, I do that" buahahahahaha I have never seen my mother look so embarrassed (or oscar for that matter)!

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My new vacuum cleaner

Very expensive but so far I really like it!


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The house saga continues

So the house is back on the market. I was planning on cleaning it Saturday morning and get it ready for showing Saturday afternoon. Well today my realtor called me and told me that there were 2 people who wanted to look at it today. They didn't care what a mess it was. So far I haven't heard anything, but at least it's being looked at.

One of them is making a decision tomorrow, so we will see what happens.

I have been tagged by Micha

Lists 5 weird things about myself

1- I don't brush my teeth before bedtime on Friday nights.

2- I am early everywhere. If I am even going to be 2 minutes late I call

3- I don't read books for pleasure

4- I check all doors to make sure they are locked 3 times

5- I shave all of my hair "down there" (the hair makes me feel dirty).


Ok the following people, consider yourself tagged

Angie
Alex
Leslie (rlgelber)
Shawnie
Leslie (Lindseysmum)

I would really love to scream

The buyers of our house didn't get approved for the mortgage. Actually the broker said that the reason they were turned down was so "personal" that she could have been fired if she disclosed it. I am thinking they falsified income or something evil like that. I swear people are so stupid. Do they not think that stuff like this gets checked? AAARGH

So now half my stuff is packed (we were due to close in 2 weeks). So now I have to figure out what I have to unpack, what can stay packed, and clean and organize the freakin house to start showing again on Monday. When am I gonna get a freakin break???? I am so over this.

Do I sound just a tad bitchy??????????? LOL

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Have I mentioned that I HATE associations

We are closing on our house on January 20th. We just got a letter from our association that they are having a meeting on January 18th do discuss and assessment for hurrican wilma. Great. So this means I get to pay them a couple of thousand dollars before we move. They least they could have done is use some vasoline before they screwed me!

Sis is out of the hospital

and she is doing much better. She and my mom are actually coming over today.

I am in tears

I am consumed with sadness and I am having a really hard time handling it right now. Lexi's developmental issues are starting to get to me. All the babies on my mothering board are so far ahead of her. I feel like I have an infant still. I can't stop cryinging. I feel like I have failed as a mother. Am I not spending enough time with her? Am I not stimulating her enough? WHAT AM I DOING WRONG???

Here is what my daughter is not doing yet.

*crawling
*standing
*cruising
*pulling herself up
*talking (she babbles, but not all the time)
*feeding herself
*eating all types of solid foods (she eats some, but meats she still isn't doing that great with)
blowing kisses
clapping her hands

I am worn out emotionally. The doc doesn't want to put her in occupational therapy until she has been in the brace for a while and see how she is developing. Here is what she IS doing.

*sitting (for the most part)
*reaching for EVERYTHING
*some babbling but not all the time
*rolling from belly to back in brace
*reaching into boxes for things she wants.

Thats not really great for a 15 month old............ I just don't know what to do. What if there is something really wrong with her? What are we going to do?