Part 7

April 7: I met with Sharon today at 10 am. Darrick was able to call in. She gave us an update on all the bids and who is going to be doing what work on our house. The work is going to start this coming week and she hopes everything will be done at the end of the week. Sharon read us an email from the seller and we could tell by the email that she is really happy that we are buying the house. We also heard from Jill that in just one month we were able to improve our credit score the few points that we needed. She thought it would take a couple of months. So we were able to lock in our interest rate at 4.75% and she said we are aiming to close on May 22. I asked Sharon if there was a SOLD sign up yet and she said that it has been up for a week. Darrick asked us to take a picture by it so Sharon offered to go with us and take the picture. April 11: This morning at 9 am the boys and I met Sharon at the house while Naomi was in preschool. Our agenda was to go through the stuff left in the house to see if we want any of it. Sharon had some of her staging stuff around that she packed up. She left some stuff so it will look nice for the appraisal, which should happen this week. We started in the basement and then the garage. Sharon brought signs to tape on stuff that said "please leave for the purchaser". We made piles in each spot- one for them and one for us. I was quite surprised at what a difference that made already. The basement and garage both looked so much bigger. The seller is coming on the 17th to remove the rest of the stuff. *The woman who owned the house passed away over six months ago and her sister is selling the house. They did an estate sale but the stuff that did not sell is still is the basement and garage*