Blatherskite

Hello. Sorry for the sparse posting since Monday. This has been a CRAZY week. Now that we have the key we have to actually move. Who wudda thunk it? And, um, we haven’t really packed all that much yet. So we are kind of trickling things over there when we can. Raf is doing most of the trickling. I soo should have taken this week off.

Thanks for all of the moral support on my last post. The fact is, I’ve been kind of depressed all week. I’m feeling better today, thank goodness. But the past few days have left me feeling kind of, well, empty and dissappointed. Kind of like Christmas day after you have opened all of your presents. Is this what buyer’s remorse feels like?

And nobody took it back!

we started moving some stuff over yesterday.. It’s nice to finally be in there, after all of this.

When we went out to the realtor’s office to pick it up (again with that!) it was really weird. We were met in the lobby (after about 10 minutes of waiting for them) by our realtor and the original contact for the Hardie Group. It made it really uncomfortable. We went to a conference room and our realtor put this thing in front of us that he wanted us to initial. We had been so worn down to a nub at that point that we initialed the stupid thing. It was basically something he needed to cover his ass.

He left the conference room and the other woman, the original contact person, said that they didn’t have a closing gift for us. That she had hoped she would have it ready, but just know that it’s coming. We told her that we don’t care about any gift. And I don’t really. But it would have kind of been a nice gesture if they had had something to give us. Especially since we have been treated so badly. She also acted like she wanted us to talk about our realtor. We didn’t. We just said we were good. That we just wanted the keys to our house. We we left the conference room our realtor was standing right around the corner listening in! It was really strange.

We left the place feeling so strange. I still don’t feel very good about it. In fact, I’m really kind of depressed. I love the house, and I’m really excited about it, but I feel kind of numb, too. I just can’t believe we were treated the way we were. And our realtor had every opportunity to apologize while we were there, an he didn’t. He acted like he didn’t do anything wrong. Raf said that he looked like his feelings were hurt. I didnt’ look at him so I didn’t see that. But why on earth would his feelings be hurt? I don’t understand.

So I am left not really knowing what to do. I kind of would like to put all of this behind us. Part of me would feel really bad if our realtor got fired or lost his license. I mean, he has a family,you know? But on the other hand…I really don’t think we deserved to be treated this way. At all! Don’t you think? I don’t know. Sometimes I think we over reacted, too. Ugh! this whole thing has left me feeling very strange.
Anyway, we have the keys to the house. And we learned a huge lesson from all of this. We will never go through a realtor of any kind ever again.

Oh, and if you live in Spokane don’t go with the realtor team of WalkerSims. Andy Sims was our realtor and, as you can see from our story, he sucked. big time.

We had to give the keys back. Can you believe that? WE HAD TO GIVE THE FUCKING KEYS BACK. Apparently our loan funded today but didn’t record. Or it didn’t fund and didn’t record. Or something like that. So they made us give the keys to the house back. And since it’s Friday we won’t get them at all until Monday. So there goes my plan for painting this weekend. And the seller didn’t paint. Of course. She shampooed the rug but she didn’t paint.

I am so fucking fed up with all of this that I am ready to just say “fuck it.” I wish I could just give the fucking house back. I can’t even believe the shit I have had to go through to get into this house.

Okay, so Raf drives out there (ugh!) to pick up the key this morning. He kind of thought about talking to him when he got there to kind of try to smooth things over. He didn’t even get the opportunity. Our realtor sent HIS ASSISTANT out to the lobby, where my husband was waiting, to give him they keys to our new house in an envelope.

Can you believe this guy?

No “Thanks for you business” no hand shake. Nothun. What a bastard. If I wasn’t pissed off before I am seeething right now.

So we are supposed to have the use of a moving van for free, since we started out going through this group (our realtor broke off on his own while he was working with us – without giving us the option to stay with the original realty group.) So I e-mailed my original contact with the original group and asked her how I can get use of the moving van. And then, as an aside, I told her I would be contacting them in writing regarding the treatment by our realtor. She called me back right away and apologized profusely, which made me feel good. She said that they had no idea he was moving out on his own, that it was sudden. And she wants us to tell her everything. And we will most definately be doing that.

This last little thing was the last straw. Not even giving us the key to the house? I mean, he is getting paid from this sale! The nerve. He is so getting in trouble for this.

I’m telling you. You don’t mess with librarians. We will fuck your shit up.