Our New House

I was trying to think of a way I could show you all our new house, well the house website took it off because it is under contract so I was able to go and save the pictures they had on it and make a slide show with them. I wish I would have taken my camera and taken some pictures of some of the other things that they didn't. Oh well, I will next time we are out there. Some of the things that are not shown are...bathroom upstairs, one of the bedrooms (probably cause it is kind of small)and the backyard. It is spacious but doesn't have any grass. Neither does the front yard. Both of the rooms upstairs have walk in closets, the one downstairs isn't walk in but good sized. So added all together there is 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 family/living rooms, a 2 car garage, and a fenced backyard with a deck out of dinning room. It is located in Tooele which is about 30 minutes west of Salt Lake but puts us only 20 minutes from Andy's work which will be so much nicer for all of us. I am still sad to leave Logan but I know as it gets closer then I will be able to become more excited. I have just been in Logan for a lot of years and I have some really good friends here that I will miss. But I am looking forward to making new ones and making a better life for my family, which this move will do for us. I will make another post once I get some more pictures taken. Until then...

The Explanation

Ok so a lot of you are confused by my Facebook posts so I am going to do my best to explain them....
We have been trying to figure out a lot of stuff so we could move closer to Andy's job. WELL, the loan officer told me (or so I thought) that I would have to have my employment verified 2-3 weeks after we closed on our new house. We had originally thought that I would quit with the bank and find a job somewhere else in Tooele if there wasn't an opening for me to transfer too. But I couldn't be in "new hire status" when they came to verify my employment. That kind of stressed me out knowing how far away that meant I could be working from my house, since I would have to transfer to some random branch just so I had the same job. I wasn't happy about that at all, I knew that if it was too far away I would be quitting it and I didn't want to quit a job shortly after I was given it. That just isn't the right thing to do in my book...thus making it so I would be farther than I wanted to be once Brandon started school again.
We are currently under contract for a house in Tooele and there aren't any jobs in Tooele or in Magna (about 20 min away) so I went and talked to the mortgage rep today and asked him if they would frown upon me just staying at the Logan branch until they verified my employment then I would quit the bank and find a new job. Well, he informed me that could work since I only have to be employed until we close (sign the papers). I was greatly relieved to find that out. Huge relief! I wasn't planning on quitting until after we move anyway, we obviously be closed before that happens.
I am currently looking for an opening to become available in the next 3-5 weeks as we wait to close, but I know now that if nothing does open then I can just hang out here in Logan and it will be okay. I hope this clears up a few things...of course it probably doesn't, since it doesn't even make sense to me half the time.

Finally

So on Monday we finally got the answer we had been watiting for...we were approved to go ahead and purchase a home down in the Salt Lake area somewhere (most likely Tooele). Of course we also found out that the house we have had our eye on since we turned in our application 3 weeks ago was sold Monday morning. That is just our luck! So now we need to go through lists and lists of houses trying to find another one. We were able to go looking at about 5 on Monday afternoon, none of which really struck our fancy. There is one that MIGHT be a possibility, but we are still looking. Of course Andy and I are on opposite schedules...He can go Tues and Thurs mornings and those are the only two days I work. So Andy will probably do the priminary scouting then I will be called in for back-up or final decision. Oh of course I go through all the listings on the computer and send my favorites to the realtor so he can show them to Andy, so I guess Andy is the middle man. I sure hope we can find something quick...June 1st is coming and it is coming FAST!! We have told my parents we will be staying in their basement, but I think after this weekend (we were there for 4 whole days) my dad is having second thoughts about that. LOL

No News = Frustration!

So we turned in all of our "required" paperwork into our mortgage rep on Thursday two weeks ago. Well, Friday at 3:30 comes around and he needs some more information from me. Knowing that it wouldn't really make a difference if I took it on Friday afternoon or Monday morning, I chose Monday morning. Well, I dropped of the remaining information and he informs me that we need to come up with some more, REALLY!!! So I go back home and we get what is needed. He sends off the info to the underwriters on Tuesday at 5:00. Yes that is 5 days later, I understand that mortgage people are extremely overwhelmed right now, all I ask is that they ask for ALL of the information so we don't get delayed another 5 days. Anyway, meanwhile we are working with a realtor in Bountiful and he can't actually show us anything until we have a nice little piece of paper in our hand saying it is okay for us to do so. Also, I understand that...why show houses to people if they can't even buy one. We made an appointment with the realtor for this coming Monday because Brandon is out of school and we wouldn't have to worry about what to do with him while we went and looked. But we have not heard back from the mortgage company yet, so we can not go look as planned. We are still "penciled in" just in case by some miracle we hear from mortgage company tomorrow morning. Highly doubt that will happen! I am sorry this is so negative, but I am feeling a little overwhelmed since we have renters moving in and no where to go. Plus a job and daycare to find in the meantime. Of course I could quit and eliminate all of those problems, but then what...a whole new ball of problems would arise for sure.