things will work out

that has been my philosophy with life in general, and it comes in handy when a crisis strikes.

And so it has worked out with the house.

Our bank was unable to give us a loan based on Zelda's and my income...

So...

we tried with Mortgage lenders, our builder in this case, and they were able to finance us solely on my income.

go figure...

We will be closing Friday at noon!
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We met our neighbor to the east of us.
It was becoming questionable as to whether some one actually lived there or not...
High weeds, dead trees, and very little if any signs of life.

Yesterday, as we sat on our soon to be front steps, a young lady stepped out the front door in lounge around the house clothes, with phone in hand, and began to attack the weeds in the yard.

After 20 mins. or so, she asked for help from us.

She's been here since about November having moved from California for a change.

I welcomed her to Texas and thought to myself, "Culture shock".

Like our neighbor to our west, she is single and owns a gi-hu-gic house.
Two story, 3,000 s.f. beasty. That's alot to keep up by one's self.
(I had hard enough time with a 1,300 s.f.).

Which brings us to the idea of buying a home.

Zelda and I got with in a week of closing and found we had trouble closing.
Young man to our west may not beable to close on his...

He was up for a promotion at work.
He didn't get the promotion at work.
(Turns out he worked for a big box home improvement company).
So he decided to quit and try door to door sales...

We haven't seen him in about a month...

Shame.

I was looking forward to having him for our neighbor...