I've Aged 10 Years In Two Days

No kidding. These last two days have really tested my resolve in moving forward with REI. In the past, I probably would have just thrown my hands up and said "screw it", but I have some goals set in stone I have to accomplish now.

So, I get to work early yesterday and am already on pins-n-needles, knowing I have to have the updated prequal letter to my agent by late this afternoon at worse. At about 11am, I'm getting really worried as I've not heard anything from my broker. Finally, he sends me an email saying he'll make the corrections and have it out to me shortly. Whew! About an hour later, I receive an email with the PDF prequal letter. As soon as I open it, I find that he forgot to update the date, which was one of the items HUD balked about. Great. So I immediately reply saying everything looks great, except I need the date to something more recent. When I hang up I quickly run to my car and drive to my bank to get a new cashier's check (HUD said the date was too old on the original, and I needed to include the property #). After having done that, I get back to the office and still no email. Another hour goes by - it's around 1:30p now. I have a meeting at 2:30p that lasts until 4:00p, and I had wanted to get this done before then. My agent calls and says she needs to go to the south part of town around 4:00p, and wants to know the status. Ugh! I tell her I'll call the broker and see what the hold-up is. So I call the broker and get his voicemail. I leave what was probably a reserved, yet panicky, message. Around 2:05pm I finally get an email with the corrected prequal letter. I immediately call my agent, who just happens to be around 2 miles from my office. As she is driving, I am giving her directions to my workplace. When she finally arrives, I hang up, go to meet her, and give her the letter and check. At this point it's about 2:20p, and I head to my meeting. After the meeting is over, I leave work, stop by my house to pick up the checkbook, and head to the water company to pay a $50 hook-up fee for the inspection this Fri. When I get home, I am mentally exhausted, but my wife is waiting at the door with two screaming 7-month olds, and I realize the stress will never end. :-)

Oh yeah. To top it all off, our twins started teething about a week or two ago, so I'm back to the "lucky if you get 4-5 hours of sleep" routine again. If I EVER hear of a single person with no kids say REI is too hard to do, I think I'll punch them in the face.

So, the inspection is scheduled for Fri afternoon. The utility companies have been called and I'm praying HUD won't come back today with another rejection. In the meantime, I found out that my other broker sent me info on a possible deal. I also got another email about another possible deal. If in a year you hear that they locked me away in a nut house, you'll know why now.

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

:-)