Weeks of Adulting Responsibly

[flwyd]

I started a more narrative version of this post, but got pulled into adulting matters instead, so here's the bullet points of what I've been up to for the last month and a half.

• Writing a document with what we requirements, preferences, and perks we'd want in a house
• Reading about the process of buying a house
• Looking at houses on real estate websites
• Pre-applying for a loan up to a million dollars
• Going to open houses
• Remembering that my passport was about to expire; renewing it
• Not buying literally the first house we looked at, even though it was really fun and in a great spot
• Getting a code volunteer oriented to the Ranger software system
• Celebrating holidays with family and friends
• Sorting out a new PHP framework because the original new fancy framework we were going to use for the Ranger system is deprecated
• Moving back to my old office building, unsubscribing from old team mailing lists, stumbling my way through Android codelabs
• Meeting with potential buyers' realtors
• Meeting with an elder law attorney to help my parents develop an estate plan
• Receiving my passport in just two weeks, before the government could shut down
• Looking at houses with realtors
• Looking at more houses on the internet; not being able to sleep due to imagining living in a particular interesting house
• Making spreadsheets of house price, down payment, and monthly cost scenarios
• Looking at more houses with realtors
• Studying the Boulder County floodplain maps
• Reading a real estate contract
• Making an offer on a house that meets almost all of our desires except "not in a floodplain"
• Buying a pie to celebrate offer acceptance
• Writing a $20,000 check for escrow
• Awkwardly knocking on future neighbors' doors and saying hello
• Reading legal documents
• Reading loan documents
• Signing loan documents
• Getting quotes for hazard and flood insurance
• Having a kickoff meeting for further adventures in climate outreach
• Observing a home inspector poke and prod at a house, crawling around in two fairly comfortable crawl spaces
• Reading inspection findings
• Leafing through a homeowner's well-organized invoices
• Reminding my mom to send life insurance details to the attorney

The next two months look pretty adulty, too.

Comments

[dr_tectonic]

Congratulations!

[randomdreams]

!!! You have a house? Is there going to be a housewarming party? Congratulations! You've leveled up!