Just a partial closing today....

The buyers' lending company for our house didn't have their act together, so we spent most of the day on the phone trying to ascertain if they could close today-- which they kept saying maybe, but they never committed to it. It was hard getting any information for the majority of the day. Of course that was pretty stressful considering we had a closing scheduled to buy a house at 2!

Meanwhile, we did close "in escrow" for the house we are buying. That means we went and signed everything so as soon as the money from our sale gets wired, that will be a done deal and we can just go pick up the keys.

The "good" news is that the buyers' loan is fine and should go through. We're waiting now to find out if our buyers' lender got their "packet" to the closing attorney's office before close of business today. If they did get it in, we will close at 9 in the morning. However, I am assuming they did not since we haven't heard anything and it's almost 7. Hopefully, then, it will get there first thing in the morning. If it does, we should close at 11AM, and then the money should be wired to our other closing attorney's office, and once they get the wire transfer confirmation a few hours later, we can pick up the keys and start moving stuff in to our new home. I'm guessing that will be around 1 tomorrow. But no guarantees.

It's been pretty yucky today-- we certainly hoped that since we'd given them a week longer than they had asked for that our buyers' lender would be ready-- but, alas, that wasn't the case. God will work it out.... just hoping he does tomorrow since it's too late to cancel our movers on Saturday! (-;