2010 July: Robertson

Greetings everyone,

So, as I think back over what has happened over the month of July, the biggest word that comes to mind is waiting. We have been waiting for our house to close, we have been waiting for school to start, we have been waiting for the weekends to come. Waiting, waiting, waiting. During the month, I started to get things ready for my time teaching at BYU-I with a few preliminary meetings and logistical things (get an office key, mailbox, etc). I am contracted to start work on Aug 16th, but before that time I am supposed to do some on-line orientation – 15 hours worth. I have some mixed feelings about the whole orientation content. Needless to say, I will keep my mouth shut about the things I raise an eyebrow over. It isn’t good to question a new employer let alone one that is immediately run by a general authority.

Anyway, on the house front – we have been getting more and more jaded with the entire process at the same time loving our realtor more and more. Things were going smoothly enough until the bank got involved. They did their appraisal and then, inexplicably, they ordered a second appraisal. This is almost unheard of, and we have no idea why they requested a second appraisal. So that pushed things out even more. And then the second appraisal came in and said that the exterior of the house needed to be repainted. The seller (after fixing all of the things that we requested be fixed after our home inspection) was going to walk away after hearing that the bank wanted him to repaint the house since it was going to cost him about $600 and he was only obligated to fix things up to $300 (which he had already used fixing the previous things). But our superhero realtor somehow talked the seller into sticking with it and painting the house. I’m not sure how he was able to do it, but we are grateful that he did since we really don’t want to start this process over again. Hopefully the bank doesn’t surprise us with anything else and we can close this week. Fingers crossed.

We have spent a lot f time this month (almost every weekend) down in Logan with Ann and Miriam and their families. It has been really nice to spend time with them before they had to move to their new destinations. But it was really nice catching up and getting to know my brothers-in-law a bit better. We were able to go to Bear Lake and many other places around Cache valley.

Morgan also celebrated her birthday this month. She bemoaned her age a bit, so I will not publish that at this time. She had a nice birthday (so she tells me), and she had a great dinner and received a gift card for a nice, long professional message. Other than that, we are just trying to get ready for school in August. We hope that all of you are doing well.

With love and regards,

The Robertsons