...arg

Finally, after living in our house for almost four full months, the rest of the repairs required in the buyer's/seller's agreement are being completed. The contractor hired to do them has been horrible about calling me back (actually, one return phone call out of my 6+ in 3 months) and finally, TODAY, is here and the jobs are being completed!
Whether it was out of the kindness of his heart, or because James was on the phone Friday threatening to take it to JAG, he scheduled us for bright and early this beautiful Monday morning. The last five repairs are being made, and hopefully all of this will be taken care of and out of our hair by this afternoon.

There were five pages of repairs the inspector found back in June that we got the seller's to agree to have repaired prior to closing, most of which HAD to be repaired before the mortgage co. would agree to lend the monies. The rest of them apparently got put on the back burner UNTIL TODAY!

Oh wait, contractor just notified me that the wrong range hood was ordered (my mistake- didn't know the difference between vented & non-vented) so he's got to do an exchange and wait for the correct one to come in at the end of the month...guess we're not done seeing him just yet...

Wonderful...it's not over yet. Oh well, lessons learned:
1- be firm, upfront, and insistent
2- call more frequently than once every two weeks, persistent
3- don't make friends with your realtor. While I am grateful for the friendship, being 'nice' doesn't get the job done fast
4- don't get to the point when your husband also gets frustrated...does NOT make for very pleasant phone conversations