Moved in and settled.

It's been over a week in the new place!
We're all unpacked and the three book shelves I had the movers bring in are assembled and filled with books. The total cost of moving was $560, perfect! Couldn't have planned it better. The two guys were busy and did a great job. Nothing was damaged in the move and everything went perfectly. So, yes Winter Moving I can very easily endorse them.

So far it feels like home. The funny thing is that it's still all my stuff so everything feels familiar. This morning I had the internet guy come out to connect the phone line. Sonic.net will be giving me 20Mb/sec for $40.00 a month. I'm about 6000' away from a central office so my loop is really long. The installation guy said that I should expect pretty low performance.

Oh well, faster than the cable at my other apartment, shared line in a building with about 200 other people meant prime-time was impossible. I'm also a fan of a static IP so I can manage my own cloud server and firewall. Web page at the house should be up soon. I'm planning on a nice video web cam on my patio and maybe the front door.

Next comes going to ikea to get a dining room table and something for guests to sit on. My last place was too small to have anyone over so this is going to be fun!

Getting the keys from the agent.

So, I'm off to go get the keys to the house. My agent said that he had some other things he had to do today, so he's left the keys at will call. Kinda like I'm picking up tickets to a concert or something. In any case, I'm taking half of the day off from work to go get things done tonight so I can move in tomorrow.

yay!

Preparing for moving.

Of course business travel a day before the big move doesn't help, but what eves, happens right?
So on thursday, Winter Moving is coming at 9am to help me pick up all my stuff. They're quoting just about 100 an hour. So I'm hoping to have the move done in about 4 to 5 hours at most. Hopefully this wont run long.

The plan is to be done with them by about 2pm, 3pm at latest. So that'll end up costing about $500 + gas, to me it's worth it. I mostly just want them to move my couch, desk, chairs, bed frame + mattress, book shelves, and the 40 something boxes. If I help them with all of the stuff then I everything should go smoothly.

The night before I'll also be taking apart all of the different book shelves that I got from container store earlier in the year. they're bolted into the walls and I used regular drywall screws. I have till the end of the month to fill in the holes with some putty so that'll happen over the weekend.

Hope they don't care that I poked holes in the walls.

Packing is just about done.

It's been a busy weekend. Lots and lost of packing and a random trip to japan town to hang out and go karaoke. Then lots more packing on Sunday hung-over.

I've spent about 80.00 on boxes from the container store. that's just about 40 boxes. This pile is about 80% of all of the stuff I have in the apartment. The shelves are about the only thing left to break down and organize for transport. I'm going on business travel Monday and return Tuesday Night, then I do a half day at work Wednesday to come home to finish packing so I can prep for the movers on Thursday. I have the rest of the month to fix up the holes in the walls in the apartment, and clean everything up.

I really wish I didn't have to do the business trip, but I guess if I wasn't doing this the week would have been way to easy.

Wire sent!

A quick trip to the bank and a wire transfer form later, I've sent out the rest of the down payment for the house. Thankfully I've got plenty left over in the bank and some cash that I took out for paying taxes later in the year for April 10th.

Now all I have to do is wait for the sellers to accept the monies and sign the house over to me.

yay!

Signing tons of papers.

So a part of the newer undersigning process at the mortgage office includes me signing things that I've signed before. Tax returns copies of tax returns, a signature for allowing the bank to get tax returns so they can compare them to the tax returns I provided to check for fraud were signed.

The process took about half an hour, and it was less arduous than I had anticipated. The stack of papers only required a signature for every few pages, and each page was presented to me with what they were and what they were for. Things like assuming the responsibility for paying taxes, paying insurance, and paying them on time.

Because I'm planning on switching banks from a big bank to a credit union they allowed me to hold off on the automatic payment forms till I've gotten setup at my new bank. Something I plan on doing right after I wire the funds from my account to the mortgage company.

It's quite interesting, the entire process. Overall I'd have to say that everything went smoothly. All of the paperwork that I've gone though will be provided to me on a CD, and emailed to me in PDF, so come time for taxes I'll be able to print things out and send them to my accountant.

All I have left to do is wire money to the title company and wait for the sellers to do some signing off on the final sales papers. That happens on monday, the next day they get their money, the day after that I get keys, that night I plan on moving in my electronics and computer stuff, the following morning I've taken the day off so I can help the movers with all my stuff starting at 9am.

Woo!