We received our preapproval letter yesterday. Stopped and had some lunch first and then ran over there as fast as I could to drop it off! I also had to write a check for the earnest money- I never knew it felt so good to write a $10,000 dollar check!!! Honestly, we NEVER have that kind of money in our checking account. We live pretty reasonably on a budget and the money we don't need to live, I immediately move into an non attached online high yield savings account. So, while Id like to pretend it 'ain't no thang' it WAS!!! I don't know honestly that I've ever had to write a check for an amount like that before. Anyways, looks like that puppy is off to title one! We still haven't told any of the girls yet....I'm trying to figure out some clever little way to do it!!
And one last thing- we gots TENTATIVE close date of January 19...as in that's what the builder and mortgage company are going for. Our realtor told US to forget that date and just plan on something in January or February. Apparently there are concerns with weather issues that time of year (obviously!! Keep your fingers crossed for us please! No snowmageddon 2.0 this year) and now that what seems to be our entire south eastern coast is demolished by these two bitch storms- who knows what that may do to materials. In our favor- it's the dead of winter in Idaho... building is pretty slow so even with some delays hopefully they could make that time up in other ways.
AND one more side note: to those of you down in Texas, Florida, Georgia, etc- our thoughts and prayers go out to you guys. Luckily I believe we've been in touch with all of you, but may the gods give you peace, hope,resilience and determination.
