It is official!

So it is official. We are officially homeowners as of Monday, July 20, 2009. After a long, and hairy, closing process, we can finally move into a house and not feel like we're stuck with what we got cuz we don't want to have to change it back when we leave.

Some things we learned during this process...
Choose your title company carefully. They make all the difference in the end. (that's a very long story. unfortunately we didn't have a choice in the matter cuz it was a bank-owned property and the bank chose the title company for us. we'll ask for a ... more professional co. next time. 'nuff said.)

Be sure and give yourself plenty of time for things to go wrong before you have to move out of your current place. (we're very fortunate that we had two weeks between closing and move in/move out time. if we didn't have that buffer, we would be much more stressed now.)

Keep a copy of everything.

Be patient. (without this one, we would have gone crazy months ago.)

Pictures soon to come. :)