Baymule’s Journal

[Alaskan]

Now we have a May 5 or before closing date. I’m so ready to get started on moving!

No, haven’t contacted the fence crew yet. Won’t have a survey for another 6 weeks.

Super frustrating!

for you, and for the general situation

 

[Ridgetop]

 

[Cecilia's-herd]

The horse is an old gelding, he trotted one time and she called me after her lesson. She said she went FAST and she was NEVER doing that again!

I must say, even i get nervous in a trot! I get it girlfriend!

 

[Ridgetop]

Get a TWH or other gaited breed. They don't trot. They just walk faster than a trot. SMOOOTH! You don't realize how fast you are going! I went out with our trainer once or twice ans she said that she liked riding with me because I didn't mind going fast. I asked "Were we going fast?" Of course, I rode in Ireland where we used to ride cross country jumping everything in sight and if we fell off we just bounced on the nice soft peat. And I do like going fast anyway. The problem with trotting is the bouncing unless you can manage to slump into it Western style, or post English style. When I got my back problems trotting was agony so I never allowed DS3's cowpony to trot if I rode her.
Had to take her once on a camping trip with my TWH who threw a shoe. Only rode her once! Got the travelling shoer out the next day to the campground. Thankfully I had a working generator for his power tools.

 

[Ridgetop]

Baymule: The horse is an old gelding, he trotted one time and she called me after her lesson. She said she went FAST and she was NEVER doing that again!

Another year and she will be a galloping danger to old folks on the trail! LOL

 

[Baymule]

Looking back at the moving from Lindale to Groveton….. from the time @Farmer.Rexi snd her husband set foot on the farm on December 15, to closing was 63 days. Although I had already been taking loads to Groveton, much of my time was taken by fixing up the house in Groveton and getting it ready to move in. I wasn’t planning on listing the farm until March. All of a sudden, there was a contract on the farm and I had to kick it into high gear. And I did.

We closed on the farm on February 16. @Ridgetop and her husband came to help with final loads, build pens for sheep and dogs. Nine days after closing, they helped me move sheep and dogs, I was officially moved. All done in 72 days. Exhausted, I collapsed with Round #2 of Covid.

Now I’m looking at my new time line. Closing on my new farm has been pushed back to May 5. Days from closing to August 1 is 83, minus a few days to go to Galveston. I have knee replacement surgery on August 18 and want a couple of weeks of light duty to rest for that event. LOL Don’t want to be exhausted and sick!

If I don’t get all the outside stuff moved, no problem, it’s my sons house, so no pressure. I’m not going to build a barn, just move Quonset huts, put up a couple of hoop huts and call it good. I’ll put up enough fence to hold them so I can move them.

I got this. It will be a cake walk compared to what I’ve already done!

 

[Honeybee Hill]

Looking back at the moving from Lindale to Groveton….. from the time @Farmer.Rexi snd her husband set foot on the farm on December 15, to closing was 63 days. Although I had already been taking loads to Groveton, much of my time was taken by fixing up the house in Groveton and getting it ready to move in. I wasn’t planning on listing the farm until March. All of a sudden, there was a contract on the farm and I had to kick it into high gear. And I did.

We closed on the farm on February 16. @Ridgetop and her husband came to help with final loads, build pens for sheep and dogs. Nine days after closing, they helped me move sheep and dogs, I was officially moved. All done in 72 days. Exhausted, I collapsed with Round #2 of Covid.

Now I’m looking at my new time line. Closing on my new farm has been pushed back to May 5. Days from closing to August 1 is 83, minus a few days to go to Galveston. I have knee replacement surgery on August 18 and want a couple of weeks of light duty to rest for that event. LOL Don’t want to be exhausted and sick!

If I don’t get all the outside stuff moved, no problem, it’s my sons house, so no pressure. I’m not going to build a barn, just move Quonset huts, put up a couple of hoop huts and call it good. I’ll put up enough fence to hold them so I can move them.

I got this. It will be a cake walk compared to what I’ve already done!

@Baymule, we put in an offer on the cabin we live in, on November 16th. Didn't close until March 14. Mortgage companies cannot process fast enough these days. There were literally 13 people involved and we don't believe that any of them actually was in contact with each other. My real estate agent, who is a good friend and member of my fire department kept us from losing our minds. Mortgage people seem to have no urgency about their jobs. none.

I just sat and read your whole thread and I just feel like giving you a hug.

I hope you get your closing sorted quickly, and have an easy time moving and establishing your new home. You are an amazing superwoman!

 

[Mini Horses]

I agree...mortgage companies have less urgency than they should!! But this is pretty cut and dried as a sale goes, so should have moved faster. A title search, a house inspection, some paperwork -- most of which is already on a computer base, fill in the blanks. They dropped the ball!! No mortgage company. I'd be jumping on their desks. There was not enough follow up to see where the process was to accomplish this close on time. Real estate agent should have been checking on it...I've been an agent, buyer and seller. Just glad that Bay can adjust but, puts a wrench in the move. Let's hope this 2 week delay doesn't repeat. That's my concern.

Hugs to you Bay!!

 

[Baymule]

Thank you @Honeybee Hill and @Mini Horses. This process is really pretty low stress level compared to when we bought the place in Lindale. It was a HUD repo, we financed it and it was one of the worst experiences of my life. It was absolutely horrible. Once it was finally ours, we sold our old house and paid off the new one. HUD gives you 45 days to close. 45 DAYS!! You can file an extension for $375, plus the $20 to overnight it. You are allowed 3 extensions, then HUD takes it back and puts it up for bid again. Everything that could go wrong, did, including thieves that broke in, stealing the AC unit outside, the furnace inside, breaker box, copper wire, even crawling under the house to cut out all the copper wire they could reach. They did $10,000 worth of damage, HUD allowed us $1,000 in damages and 30 days to fix it after closing. We closed on the last day of the last extension. It ain’t for the faint of heart!

 

[Honeybee Hill]

Thank you @Honeybee Hill and @Mini Horses. This process is really pretty low stress level compared to when we bought the place in Lindale. It was a HUD repo, we financed it and it was one of the worst experiences of my life. It was absolutely horrible. Once it was finally ours, we sold our old house and paid off the new one. HUD gives you 45 days to close. 45 DAYS!! You can file an extension for $375, plus the $20 to overnight it. You are allowed 3 extensions, then HUD takes it back and puts it up for bid again. Everything that could go wrong, did, including thieves that broke in, stealing the AC unit outside, the furnace inside, breaker box, copper wire, even crawling under the house to cut out all the copper wire they could reach. They did $10,000 worth of damage, HUD allowed us $1,000 in damages and 30 days to fix it after closing. We closed on the last day of the last extension. It ain’t for the faint of heart!

That sounds like a nightmare!!

Our closing took a looooong time because of people in departments who didn't speak to each other..so we'd be asked 6 ways to Sunday for the same forms and statements that had already been sent. FH isn't a w-2 employee, he's a k-1 partner, so that really confused them, and they asked for his W-2's and 1099s about 25 times before he sent them a full definition of the differences. We got the job done, but I thought FH was going to lose his mind at some points.

I'm just glad to be done with that process.