WE GOT IT. WE GOT IT GOT IT GOT IT. WE GOT THE UGLY BABY. WE GOT THE UGLY BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just a few more administrative chores and pieces of official home-buying nonsense to check off. Inspect. Sign. File with whatever higher powers need these things: mortgage forms, titles, notarized this, that and the other. (What does [...]
Thoughts from under the coffee table… I have never wanted anything so badly. I’m pretty sure I forgot to eat dinner last night. I only realized this after forgetting to eat lunch today. It is so improbable to me that Agent Awesome hasn’t phoned by now. Ring, god damn you. What if his phone is on silent? What [...]
Bidding war? Didn’t see that coming. Hours and hours and hours later, Paolo’s damn phone rings. He nods a lot and a lot of “OKs”. It’s us versus an unseen them. Load your weapons: our bidding war has begun. At least in a live auction you can stare down your bidding opponents. This apartment-buying hoop-jumping means a fair game [...]
You know when you were 15 and waited by the phone all day? Making an offer and being told to wait 24 hours is worse. After signing some official papers, we’ve made our offer on the potential ugly baby and, if no news is good news… then we’re in pig heaven. Damn all its glorious potential – [...]
Who knew that buying an apartment was a blood sport? I’ve never known such stress. Nails have been bitten to the quick. There’s not enough yoga in the world to save this situation: buying a house or apartment is horribly, horribly stressful. We put in our offer on the potential ugly baby, the apartment to [...]
