Clarifications

June 22, 2006

Hi gang,Here's the deal - the previous owner was transferred by their job and some kind of property management company took over the house. So it's not that anyone is there - the family is long gone (the house was on the market since last November). The hold up is only paperwork or just cussedness ("you said you wanted to close on the 30th!") or some legal mumbo jumbo. We're pretty miffed at our mortgage company b/c it seems like they should have known what was going on (at least should have known that the mgt company wasn't expecting to close on June 21) - Larry's been on the phone with them almost daily for a couple of weeks, faxing forms and emailing stuff. But being annoyed serves no purpose - at this point we're resigned to our fate and just trying to deal with living out of our car and suitcases.

P.S. Larry is off work until June 30th. It would be nice if we could spend that time settling into the house instead of hanging out in a hotel. But at least we can start finding our way around Syracuse. Last night we went to Mike's ice cream near our house, on the recommendation of our waiter at Red Lobster.

P.S.S. So much for our perfect moving in day (which was yesterday and only yesterday) - it's supposed to rain for the next 5 days. Oh, and Alana has a raging head cold (though she seems better today than yesterday, so maybe that's on it's way out).