Eyes Crossed

Eyes Crossed was Originally Posted on September 14, 2004 by lavarock

The “I”s are dotted and the T”‘s are crossed. The deed is done.

Yesterday I received a call from the Title Company asking if I was going to send them a check towards my closing. I replied that they ALREADY had one from me and had acknowledged to me they had it a week ago. It seems they had it over in Honolulu and not here on island.

I received a call from my Mortgage Company today saying they needed just one last paper signed, but my loan was approved and all was fine. I kinda KNEW the loan was approved since last week I signed the “final loan documents” and of course, signed the check just mentioned.

Then just after noon today my Real Estate Agent called and asked me if I heard “the news”. I paused and then cautiously asked “which news?” I hated to sound stupid, but if I spoke the words before someone officially told me, I could jinx things.

Kraig then told me that… [i][u][b]”They registered the deed. The farm is yours! Congratulations!”[/b][/u][/i]

This has been a year and a half (at least) in the works and I am very happy. NOW I can start all of my projects. If the loan had not gone through, I would have had to buy the place outright and would not have had funds to do a lot of work on the farm. NOW I DO!

NOW the real work begins. Just tonight I am finishing up the newsletter and putting a link to it on my site. I’ll offer a discount for the rest of the month in celebration that I own the farm now.

I also want to send out a link to the newsletter, but have to be careful not to spam people. I’ll send it out to people who have recently sent me email about my various websites and I will probably not sent it to too many people at a time. That should keep it under the RADAR of spam detectors. The newsletter gives them the details of the discount.

By the way, near my farm there are two other properties for sale. The first is a farm north of me by two properties. It has 1 nice house and 2 coffee shacks. They also have some coffee and other agriculture on the land and is in better shape and a bit better than my property. It was listed for $300,000 and had a contract for full price and a cash deal the first day! That sale unfortunately did not go through because the buyer could not sell his house during the 2 month contract period. The property is now listed at $390,000 or so…

A few lots to the south of my property I see a house up for sale for about $250,000. It too is a bit nicer than this one and further along than my farm. Then again, I paid nothing close to that price for this place.

Even with a lot of fixing up, this property I just bought is worth way more than I paid. Time will prove this to be true.