I got my pictures of the condo uploaded. I took a picture of the view from the front door down the hallway, but I don't have it on the comp because I took it on a seperate trip, so I'll add it later. LJ gallery: Olive66.

Escrow was funded just after 4PM, so Molly & I tore back across town (kinda) from Old Glendale and got the keys right after 5 PM.

I asked when we'd be getting our LCD flat panel HDTV, and they said probably Monday. Too bad we won't have cable service till next Saturday at the earliest. We're going to start moving things in tomorrow. I'm not looking forward to the moving stuff part at all, but I'll be glad when its all done, I think.

Congrats to us!

Current Mood: accomplished

Marty signed the paperwork for the condo today, so we've closed on it.

We got a surprise, though. The builder suddenly sprung this agreement on us which states that (and I paraphrase): "the buyer agrees to not install a washer/dryer in the purchased unit after the close of escrow." It also stated in that the builder never led anyone to believe that a washer/dryer of any kind could be installed, etc.

This is a big issue, because this was the one thing that we requested be guaranteed to us in writing and we were told when we were looking and when we signed the purchase agreement that we would be able to put in a combo washer/dryer, and now this agreement totally renegs all of that.

It bothers me for that reason only, that we were greatly misled on a very important amenity and, had we known that this laundry issue would come up, I seriously doubt we would have purchased at Olive66.

Since we're technically not "installing" anything (the combo unit is something that can be rolled in and out at-will like any other appliance; it is not a permanent fixture), Marty feels confident we'll be OK, and I'm OK with it on those grounds as well, but it will seriously suck a year down the road if they come and tell us we have to remove the washer/dryer.

I'm gonna upload photos of the unit later. We did our walkthrough and found a lot of small things. The only major thing is the front door isn't fitting the doorframe properly; we noticed a lot of light coming in around the frame, and that indicates air-leakage. They're going to fix that along with everything else.

I have to run to catch Molly so we can look at pantries. I'm really excited!

Current Mood: excited

Its New Year's Eve.


I'm at work.


I'm sick.


The Jaguars are losing.


This sucks.


On the bright side, I've probably had enough white tea with honey that my body is ripe with loverly antioxidants and my free radical count might be down.


Hopefully.

Current Mood: sick

Oh wow! We're gonna have a new home for the new year!

Marty and I (known as "M&M" to the family now) are doing what will be our final walkthrough of the condo on Friday. Then, Marty was told that we should be funded within 24 hours, so we should have our key the next day! SCWEET!

I am going to take pictures of the condo before we move our things in so people can see how nice it was before we started living there. Well, my hope is it STAYS nice (and my plan is to take good care of it), but we'll see.

We still haven't officially decided on which washer/dryer combo we want to buy. Its a 2-in-1 machine like they have in Europe and Asia, not a stackable, and the only drawback is that it has like a 3 hour drying cycle, so we have to do our laundry before we go to work, as soon as we get home, and when we go to bed, and the loads must be relatively small, too. Its just two of us, so it shouldn't be too bad, and in a pinch, there is an on-site laundry less than 500 feet from our front door. The one we seem to like best is the LG Electronics Ventless WM3632H combintaion washer-dryer. We need to get our exact measurments and decide if we're going to get this, since we'll probably have to order it.

Marty and I don't have any real plans for New Year's, other than maybe drinking a bottle of Martinelli's (yum!). I work New Year's Eve, but its a short day, so it'll be nice. Oh what will I do when I have to go back to a regular 5-day work week? After vacation, then Christmas, then New Year's, I've had a ton of short weeks. Bleh!

Current Mood: chipper