I just wanted to post a quick update about our house!
Friday night, we got a call from our awesome realtor, Julie. She had heard from the seller's agent, who had heard from the bank that they are expecting to approve our sale "on Wednesday". The bank approving the sale means we begin our standard 30 day escrow and, more importantly, our standard 17 day inspection window. This whole thing happened at the same time that we were driving around the 1/2 marathon course, so picture me saying "OMG 13.1 miles is long" and "hahaha that is such terrible timing we are so screwed."
The problem was that on Thursday we were supposed to leave for Australia, for 14 days. After a few very purposeful hours of scheming, internet researching, and phone calling, we managed to come up with the following plan.
Instead of flying to Australia on Thursday, we'll fly to San Francisco on Wednesday (yes that's today!) and have our various inspections Thursday and Friday. Then we'll leave late Friday night and fly out of San Francisco via LAX and Brisbane to get to Melbourne. We leave Blacksburg a day earlier and get to Melbourne a day later, and the whole thing is costing us less than a separate round trip from ROA>SFO would have cost! Sweet!
Thank goodness for flexibility, patience, and a good attitude. The timing of this could have really thrown a wrench at us but we mostly just laughed and made our plans accordingly. And yes, today is Wednesday, and no, I'm not packed yet and not fully recovered from the 1/2 marathon. But I have a snuggly kitty and coffee... so I'll procrastinate a bit more!
Stay tuned for inspection results, more pics of what will hopefully be "our" house, and of course hijinks and hilarity that will no doubt ensue during our two weeks down under!
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