Real Estate Trials, Part III

We have spent a small fortune on boxes, bubble wrap and packing tape. Now, we’re renting a storage unit because we can’t move into our new house until July 19 and we need to rent a moving truck. We may need a second mortgage to pay for the move to the new house.

AND, the buyer of our house is insisting we pay for all the repairs that showed up in the inspection. Two of them in particular we really shouldn’t have to cover (they’re nothing major) and initially said we wouldn’t.

But the buyer is intimidated by home improvements, his real estate told our real estate agent. Is he kidding? He’s buying a house and is intimidated by home improvements. Being a homeowner is nothing but home improvements.

So, a tiny evil piece of me hopes something really big breaks two weeks after he moves in–maybe it will involve a plumber, an electrician and a general contractor. OK, OK, that’s probably wrong of me but I can’t help it–the profits from the sale of our home are being nickeled and dimed by a plethora of greedy people and all sorts of mysterious closing “fees.”