(another backdated post...I have two more left!)
Life is still one giant question mark. We still don't know about the loan for the house. Apparently once again we should know today. If I had a centime for every time I heard that! The strange little man who evaluated the house for the bank last week ended up valuing it at 15K under what we offered and he also wrote in his report that the house was uninhabitable which of course has made our case a little weaker. You never tell a lender that a house you are thinking of buying is a fixer upper because they will be wondering where you'll be getting that other money from. We didn't tell the bank and so when the man came through the house to inspect it and asked about the work we said it was nothing really and that were old pros at doing this type of work. He seemed like he hated the house and picked at gouged pieces of wood in the doors and took pictures of my half-stripped fireplace obviously to prove his case. The house is very habitable in our opinion. He should have seen our last house if he wanted to label someplace as uninhabitable!
I guess he was just doing his job but we really felt like he was anti old house. We've met some of those types over the years. Aren't those are the ones voting to tear down historic landmarks so they can build new office buildings. He said the house needed 50 thousand dollars worth of work.
In the end we told the bank we'd come up with the missing gap money somehow and would they still consider our loan if we did and they have said once again that they would get back to us in a few days which is today, sigh. They always say they will get back to us and then they don't and then when they do it's with some new request. We're a little fed up with them but they are one of our brightest prospect for getting a loan.
Meanwhile Little S started his new school yesterday and he seems to really like it. I was thinking he'd be afraid and cry like he did in Mexico when he started preschool but he was happy and when we took him in his classroom he sat right down and started coloring next to a little girl. The day was really long like I thought it would be but he didn't do too badly except when we got home to the gite at five and he passed out on the couch "ploof" and had to be carried upstairs in his school clothes. Everyone always told me that kids usually do this after French school because it's so exhausting. I still think the day is entirely too long for such a little person.
The most difficult part of our loan problem is that we will have to pull Little S from his school this week if the financing doesn't go through. Then we'll have to put him in another school in a few weeks when we get resettled. It would be a real shame because I think he likes this school and starting yet another school would be a little much.
I did well with the driving and especially with the GPS! I went all the way across town on the autoroute and dropped off Seb, then came back and picked up Little S for lunch. The GPS guided me the whole way. I was kind of afraid that it would blip out or something and I'd have no idea where I was but it worked really well. It's a wonderful help if you move to a new city.
Otherwise we're still enjoying the gite and all the beautiful trees around us. It's wonderful and quiet here. We have about two more weeks before we get booted out so we're enjoying all the luxuries like the clean floors and lovely little kitchen as long as we can. If we get the house we'll have to get used to living like we're camping for a few months! The excitement of moving in a new house will mask that but a primitive little part of me will remember that once long ago there was order and cleanliness and a dishwasher!
I wonder when I will have internet again? After so many weeks of living out of suitcases (going on three months now) it sounds so wonderful to think of having a normal house anywhere and plopping myself in front of the computer for an hour or two. Just the thought of having my own washing machine fills me with such happiness that you would think I was dreaming of a tropical vacation and not a domestic household appliance.
I'm sure it will all come soon. I just have to be a little more patient but it's getting really hard and cold! We're all still wearing Mexican clothes in this house,...layered Mexican clothes that is.
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