Closing and the Fridge

Well though the day has come and gone, I am going to write this post as if it were today.

Today at 1pm we close on our new home.  Everything is in order and all we have left is to go to the bank and then drive to our lawyers office in Charlotte. After of course I evaluate my stores, that are 1.5 hours away from Lincolnton, where Hunter and our bank is. So basically I spent from 4 am Thursday morning til 11:30am driving to stores, evaluating them, and driving home, to the bank, then off to Charlotte.  Hunter drove to closing and the GPS kept telling him to go a different way, even tho his route was faster.  It was very amusing to listen to them argue back and forth about where to go, and it took us to the wrong group of buildings.  Luckily for the first time in our entire relationship, we had left the house on time and had a few minutes to spare to get to the right building.  Frazier (our lawyer) and Geoff Brown (New American Mortgage) were there to meet us, and over all the closing only took about 30 minutes.  Wow almost 2 months of work, to be finished in 30 minutes.  I wasn't sure if I was relieved or overwhelmed.  Either way I knew that we had made the right decision and I couldn't wait for us to get there.

But first we had to stop by and pick up our brand new refrigerator I found on Craigslist, for $400 less than what it would have cost at Lowes.  The only reason the guy was selling it, was it didn't fit in his kitchen (too big) and he bought it from a friend at Lowes for a huge discount so he knew he wouldn't be getting his money back that way.  We got to his house and it took Hunter and Ray (the guy) almost an hour to load this in the back of my truck, so we knew we would need re-enforcements once we got to our new house.

We had a few errands to run first and all with this huge fridge in the back of my truck, so I got the job of being the "watcher" to make sure the doors were closed, and that the straps were tight enough.  This was much easier said than done, seeing as how I hadn't slept the night before and it was now encroaching on 3pm.  But we made it none the less.

On the way I called Andy and Milan (one of my franchisee's and his District Manager) who live in the area near the house, to ask if they would mind helping us unload and get into the house.  They had previously offered to help in any way, and so graciously accepted the task.  We got to the house a little while before the guys did and discovered that the door was much smaller than the fridge, at least by 2 inches.

Luckily for us 2 things happened:
    1. Andy carries tools in his car.
    2. The doors on the fridge come off.

We also discovered that once the doors were off and all the interior shelves have been removed the fridge is much easier to move.  Because of this experience we have decided that any more appliances going in the house are going to be delivered and brought into the house by Lowes, and moved in by the really big guys with the back supports.

Please stay tuned for the next few days of painting, packing and moving....