Blog from the Loft

The two attorneys finally connected and everything is accepted. One bit of news that we have learnt however, is that the seller’s attorney has never been in contact with the sellers themselves, only with their parents. Things should go smoothly from this point on…

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My attorney faxed over her rider to the P&S yesterday. She called the seller’s attorney this morning. He claimed that he did not get the fax, and thought the P&S was signed? SIGNED? Today he is busy, so he will get back to us and had not by end of day. Linda my attorney said [...]

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A design and experiment site, suppose to be for education and kids, but its sure fun to play with for adults !

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Got into the office this morning, fired up Eudora, and there it is — email from my attorney, subject: P&S. We have P&S ! I don’t remember if I mentioned this before, but I have never met my lawyer. We corresponded over the phone and via email. She sent me the updates to the P&S [...]

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I cannot believe this. Today we suppose to sign the Purchase and Sale Agreement. The seller however have not given us the P&S yet. Someone out there don’t want me to move? Glad I am not too emotionally attached to this whole process.
Meanwhile I am cleaning and tidying and packing up stuff in the current [...]

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Becoming American: The Chinese Experience, a 3-part Bill Moyers Special, will premiere at 9pm on March 25, 2003, on PBS. Moyers frames his special around the quetions: What does it mean to become an American? At what moment does one “become American”? What does one give up to become American? What traditional values can we [...]

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As part of the preparation for selling the house, Helen the broker is bringing in an interior decorator to change things around a bit in the house. We want to get the house to be more presentable, ready for pictures for virtual tour setup. I have given them complete free hand on this. At this [...]

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The table has turned. The focus has changed. Now it is time for me to be on the selling side and get ready to put my own house up for sale. I have two things in my favor. My realtor, Helen, is quite excited about selling the house. She always liked the house and I [...]

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Next step — Home Inspection. Just did this yesterday with Wayne from Pro-Tech Consultants. Always good to give business in the area and also for ones who have web presences. He even sent my the narrative summary via email PDF.
Other step is to gather condo documents, deeds, condo budgets, and forward them to my lawyer, [...]

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Just setup my Moving Sale list as a MovableType powered blog. It works quite well. I still need to cleanup the template and stylesheet, but it is good enough for now. Thanks, MovableType !
Now go buy something will ya !

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