Stress

[judecorp]

This whole house-buying thing is really getting to me. It seems like every day I find out about some new hitch or worse, some new expense. $500 here and $1000 there doesn't seem like so much when you're talking about the expense of a house, but when I am dropping pretty much a major majority of the money I own on housing us, the little bits add up and I start having to configure in my head: Do I buy title insurance or a washing machine? Can I afford X or do I need a sofa? I just want to cry all the time.

Thankfully the closing is on Monday and one way or another it will be over. But I am NOT thrilled with the process. I don't like that the lawyer e-mails Jen without CCing me. And I don't like that we're supposed to make a decision about title insurance and yet no one has mentioned such a thing before. And I don't like that I am paying HUGE sums of money and yet it is not enough, there is more money to be paid and then there needs to be some furniture and a washer/dryer and the furnace repair and wallpaper removed and the dishwasher installed and the homeowners insurance pre-paid for a year (that was the other day's surprise) and on and on and on.

It's far too much for me.

Comments

[iansha.livejournal.com]

Like I said, have faith that it WILL slow when you are in the house. AND, with the holidays coming up and all, NO ONE goes furniture shopping - so you can get some SCHWEET deals.

A little trick from when I was living in MA - if you know someone with a truck for moving and are willing to transport to your new place yourself, hop the border to Nashua and get a STEAL on some furniture with the NO TAX + holidaze bargains.

We used to do that for all our big purchases (tvs, etc) and it worked out nicely.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I would like some sweet deals. I don't want to go to Nashua, though. THAT'S FAR! (If I was still in Boston, that would be different.) We'll probably end up buying the bare minimum at IKEA.