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1. Our official close date is Friday 6/8, but we've already done half the signing and it's possible that everything will fund as early as Tuesday, even with all the crazy delays we've had.
2. Our next hurdle is the floor - we need to replace the carpet. It's disgusting. This is a foreclosed home that's been empty for over a year. There's a brown substance smeared in the carpet in the master bedroom that could be shit. The last occupant must have purposely squirted something all over the floor before they left - you can see drip marks going up and down all the stairs and across all the rooms in the house. We picked a floor, picked an installer, and then discovered that even though we don't have any units below ours, we still are supposed to get approval from the HOA "architecture committee" about the floor we want to put in. But the architecture committee doesn't meet again until July 11. We can't wait that long - it would involve either staying where we are and paying rent and the mortgage until at least mid-August, or it would involve moving, living with that disgusting carpet, and then paying someone to move all of our stuff back into the garage, finding someplace else to stay for several days while they do the work, and boarding the cats as well. Apparently there's now a CA state law in effect that states that condo boards cannot make decisions outside of public meetings unless it's an emergency. So our agent is trying to make this into an emergency on our behalf. What it comes down to is that we will order and install the floor when we want to (i.e. ASAP) but may have started a war with the HOA before we even move in, and have no idea what happens next. Joy.
3. We don't know when we're moving yet. We've started packing non-essentials, but until the floor thing is settled, we don't have a clue. Even if we order the wood today, it could take 2-4 weeks to get it delivered, and then it has to sit in the house and acclimate for a few days before installation. I'm really hoping they can get it in and we could move by the end of June, but pushing out into July is seeming more and more likely.
2. Our next hurdle is the floor - we need to replace the carpet. It's disgusting. This is a foreclosed home that's been empty for over a year. There's a brown substance smeared in the carpet in the master bedroom that could be shit. The last occupant must have purposely squirted something all over the floor before they left - you can see drip marks going up and down all the stairs and across all the rooms in the house. We picked a floor, picked an installer, and then discovered that even though we don't have any units below ours, we still are supposed to get approval from the HOA "architecture committee" about the floor we want to put in. But the architecture committee doesn't meet again until July 11. We can't wait that long - it would involve either staying where we are and paying rent and the mortgage until at least mid-August, or it would involve moving, living with that disgusting carpet, and then paying someone to move all of our stuff back into the garage, finding someplace else to stay for several days while they do the work, and boarding the cats as well. Apparently there's now a CA state law in effect that states that condo boards cannot make decisions outside of public meetings unless it's an emergency. So our agent is trying to make this into an emergency on our behalf. What it comes down to is that we will order and install the floor when we want to (i.e. ASAP) but may have started a war with the HOA before we even move in, and have no idea what happens next. Joy.
3. We don't know when we're moving yet. We've started packing non-essentials, but until the floor thing is settled, we don't have a clue. Even if we order the wood today, it could take 2-4 weeks to get it delivered, and then it has to sit in the house and acclimate for a few days before installation. I'm really hoping they can get it in and we could move by the end of June, but pushing out into July is seeming more and more likely.