Finallllllyyyyy!

The moment we have been waiting for... WE CLOSED ON THE HOUSE TODAY!  I thought this moment would never come, and it never seemed further away than when we walked in to do the final walk through and discovered this...

This is a pile of the ceiling sitting on our formerly beautiful hardwood floors in the living room... apparently the incredibly crummy contractor hired by Fannie Mae to fix the pipes left water in one of the pipes surrounding the radiator and water was leaking through the ceiling until the ceiling gave way and dumped onto the floor, allowing the water to be released and soak into the floor boards, causing them to warp.  It was surreal... literally, given that the floor looks something like Dali's melted watches.  These are the same utterly inept plumbers that allegedly winterized the place, but instead left water in all of the pipes, causing them to freeze and burst.  We now have leaks throughout, which are being handled by an incredibly awesome plumber that is taking care to do things the right way.  Amazing what difference a good plumber versus a bad plumber can make.  The upside is that we are settled, and the bank has paid for a substantial portion of the work.  The real miracle is that we should have running, HOT, water by the weekend, and flushable toilets.  I know, it sounds like that should just come standard, but not in a foreclosed property... we are so excited to start moving tomorrow and get settled in.  It's going to be a huge day, no doubt about it.

We went over tonight and dropped off some breakables and gave our first house tour.  We also got to meet our neighbor, who seems super nice and very laid back.  Excellent.  I'll be posting more as soon as we are in and have access again... Comcast says that will be Saturday, I am saying we'll see... hooray at last!