Pretty Much Done

[built4speed]

Well, it's D-day of sorts. We had a marathon session with the attys this morning and finalized all the remaining details on the D deal. It's a wonder how smooth it goes when you give away $30K. I basically agreed to take only 3/4s of my equity to conpensate for her 10 years as a stay-at-home mom. Yeah, I know, it was her choice to agree to my insistent request, but I couldn't get her to quit complaining about how unfair the deal was, and this finally shut her up. Part of the deal included me getting all of my equity money now instead of letting her pay me back later with interest. This is good for me because then I don't have to try to get my cash out of her in 10 years. That would have been a nightmare.

So I guess it's good enough.

The other milestone of sorts is that I made an offer on a house that was accepted. I got the guy to come down 6% with one e-mail, I love this market! I took the kids to see it tonight and they are very excited. You would not believe the kitchen: Corian, tons of lights, all upgraded. And only a block from the lake with a neighborhood private beach! I'm buying a boat (when my finances get out of the toilet!).

W agree to move my move out date to Sunday instead of the first, since she isn't giving me the cash until we sign, and that is not until Friday. So it looks like I will be moving this weekend. Major trauma.

As I went to go negotiate the house deal, W broke down crying. She was scared about losing me, she said. I told her I had felt that way for three years. I knew she would snap out of it in a little while. It used to take a few days, then one day. This one took 20 minutes for my phone to ring telling me she was fine and I should not let her breakdown stop me from making an offer on the house. I didn't.

It's sad when it gets to the point you can predict her backtracking is a farce. This sucks.

So, on one day we finalized the D and I bought a house. It's W's birthday. Our family is over. I hope she is happy.