Yet MORE real estate agita
Sep. 14th, 2009 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katallisonI *almost* had to post the head-explodingly rageful follow-up entry of "Ha HAH, do not count your wire transactions until they are deposited!"
Which is to say, at 3:00 this afternoon, 8 hours after my wire transfer was initiated, I was going back and forth on the phone between Competent Ameritrade Guy and Competent Bank Lady, both of them saying "Uhh . . . well, it really should have come in by now. If it's not there by now? I--don't know, but that's not good." C.A.Guy almost lost his Competence badge by saying at one point, "Yeah, if it hasn't deposited by now, I'd be a little concerned," and I give myself bonus points for not screaming back "WHY THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME, OTHERWISE I WOULD HAVE HAD NO IDEA I SHOULD BE A LITTLE CONCERNED JUST BECAUSE ALL MY MONEY HAS VAPORIZED INTO THE AETHER."
(A thing I learned today! If you have a wire transfer going between one account and another? Say, an Ameritrade account and your local neighborhood credit union? It doesn't just go from point A to point B -- it has to make a scenic side excursion through the freakin' FEDERAL RESERVE. Which is probably why the whole thing took eight hours.)
Anyway! At 3:15, I made one last despondent call to Competent Bank Lady, who said "Hang on -- let me check again -- hey, it just came through! Three minutes ago! It's deposited!"
I whooped, and then I *burned rubber* to the bank, and got the cashiers check, and *burned rubber* to the title company office (OMG, I didn't even mention the truly awesome escrow/title company lady, who soothed my anxieties, and let me go ahead and do all the paper signing even though I didn't have the check, and laughed and laughed at my bitter snarkiness about Ameritrade.)
So -- papers are signed, check is in, I get the keys on Wednesday, and our long national closing nightmare is over. Deep thanks to everyone who has listened to my ceaseless tedious core-dumpings of anxiety and angst, and posted encouraging supportive comments -- I should reply to you all, but right now I have a rendezvous with a nice bottle of champagne.
Which is to say, at 3:00 this afternoon, 8 hours after my wire transfer was initiated, I was going back and forth on the phone between Competent Ameritrade Guy and Competent Bank Lady, both of them saying "Uhh . . . well, it really should have come in by now. If it's not there by now? I--don't know, but that's not good." C.A.Guy almost lost his Competence badge by saying at one point, "Yeah, if it hasn't deposited by now, I'd be a little concerned," and I give myself bonus points for not screaming back "WHY THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME, OTHERWISE I WOULD HAVE HAD NO IDEA I SHOULD BE A LITTLE CONCERNED JUST BECAUSE ALL MY MONEY HAS VAPORIZED INTO THE AETHER."
(A thing I learned today! If you have a wire transfer going between one account and another? Say, an Ameritrade account and your local neighborhood credit union? It doesn't just go from point A to point B -- it has to make a scenic side excursion through the freakin' FEDERAL RESERVE. Which is probably why the whole thing took eight hours.)
Anyway! At 3:15, I made one last despondent call to Competent Bank Lady, who said "Hang on -- let me check again -- hey, it just came through! Three minutes ago! It's deposited!"
I whooped, and then I *burned rubber* to the bank, and got the cashiers check, and *burned rubber* to the title company office (OMG, I didn't even mention the truly awesome escrow/title company lady, who soothed my anxieties, and let me go ahead and do all the paper signing even though I didn't have the check, and laughed and laughed at my bitter snarkiness about Ameritrade.)
So -- papers are signed, check is in, I get the keys on Wednesday, and our long national closing nightmare is over. Deep thanks to everyone who has listened to my ceaseless tedious core-dumpings of anxiety and angst, and posted encouraging supportive comments -- I should reply to you all, but right now I have a rendezvous with a nice bottle of champagne.
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Date: 2009-09-14 11:43 pm (UTC)YAY!
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Date: 2009-09-14 11:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-14 11:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-14 11:57 pm (UTC)I toast you with my ginger ale!
I wish you many happy years in your new home!
OMG YAY!!!
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Date: 2009-09-15 12:00 am (UTC)so glad to hear your good news - I hope you and your bottle of champagne enjoy a lovely evening
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Date: 2009-09-15 12:06 am (UTC)*\o/*
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Date: 2009-09-15 12:11 am (UTC)Cheers!
Date: 2009-09-15 12:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-15 12:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-09-15 12:33 am (UTC)Keys on Wednesday! Whee!
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Date: 2009-09-15 01:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-15 01:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-15 01:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-15 01:53 am (UTC)Champagne and dreams of pleasant domesticity!
Congratulation!
Date: 2009-09-15 01:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-15 02:07 am (UTC)(Soon you will have house-owning angst. *g* But don't think about that now.)
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Date: 2009-09-15 02:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-09-15 04:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-15 05:44 am (UTC)But you prevailed! Congratulations, oh woman soon to have a garden! I hope there will be pictures...
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Date: 2009-09-15 06:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-15 08:20 am (UTC)Huzzah!
Date: 2009-09-15 03:00 pm (UTC)And maybe - just maybe - you can have a moment of peace and quiet in which you may imagine everything dealing with money just going back to the pit of hellfire from whence it all came.
Oh, and congratulations, homeowner! :)
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Date: 2009-09-15 07:14 pm (UTC)Huzzah! A house of your own!
Date: 2009-09-23 08:43 pm (UTC)