if any of you remember this thread: https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/on-hold.87441/. in a nutshell, i got the go-ahead from my landlord to install a wood stove so i started getting a good stash of wood going. that came to a halt when my neighbor (upstairs) complained. i started looking for my own house and got hung up in the pre-approval process so i gave it up.
fast forward to this spring... that annoying neighbor went from annoying to straight up aggressive. she started stomping around and screaming through the floor at the slightest noises we made and eventually got into a confrontation with my wife while i was at work. when i told her to take it up with the landlord, a drama bomb exploded and my landlord had to mediate and decide how to keep things from further exploding. his decision was to not resign our lease ending in July (this was in May) reason being we were looking to move anyhow. i can understand that from a business point-of-view but...
i wasn't happy (VERY VERY mildly stated). not only that, the passive-aggressive harassment continued. our plan was to continue renting and hunker down financially to put down some money on a house and now we were being forced to move again. we drew up a plan to buy a house in the two-plus months we had left in this place and got to work...
after over two months of looking, applying, a billion phone calls, text messages, emails, faxes, signatures, sleepless nights, meetings, inspections, what-ifs, ups, downs, we closed on our modest little house yesterday afternoon. it felt like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders and chest. i'm not gonna say i was ecstatic walking away from closing, more relieved. i could take a full breath again for the first time in a long time.
so during this time, my anger slowly became overtaken by the new house and everything that goes with the process of buying a house, my first house. i could care less about my neighbor and everyone up and down has said basically the same thing: let it go, she will continue her sad existence until the bitter end and everyone will have moved on to better things. i don't know what runs through the mind of a person like that, but whatever consumes her is great. after doing what she did to get us effectively kicked out, we've been told by other neighbors that she has decided to move out. i've also been told that didn't make the landlord much too pleased and i don't blame him. oh well, i guess.
to the business at hand now... i own a house
i can have a wood-burning appliance. i can stack wood. i'll probably be asking questions and shopping for either a stove or insert. feels good to be back. thanks!
fast forward to this spring... that annoying neighbor went from annoying to straight up aggressive. she started stomping around and screaming through the floor at the slightest noises we made and eventually got into a confrontation with my wife while i was at work. when i told her to take it up with the landlord, a drama bomb exploded and my landlord had to mediate and decide how to keep things from further exploding. his decision was to not resign our lease ending in July (this was in May) reason being we were looking to move anyhow. i can understand that from a business point-of-view but...
i wasn't happy (VERY VERY mildly stated). not only that, the passive-aggressive harassment continued. our plan was to continue renting and hunker down financially to put down some money on a house and now we were being forced to move again. we drew up a plan to buy a house in the two-plus months we had left in this place and got to work...
after over two months of looking, applying, a billion phone calls, text messages, emails, faxes, signatures, sleepless nights, meetings, inspections, what-ifs, ups, downs, we closed on our modest little house yesterday afternoon. it felt like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders and chest. i'm not gonna say i was ecstatic walking away from closing, more relieved. i could take a full breath again for the first time in a long time.
so during this time, my anger slowly became overtaken by the new house and everything that goes with the process of buying a house, my first house. i could care less about my neighbor and everyone up and down has said basically the same thing: let it go, she will continue her sad existence until the bitter end and everyone will have moved on to better things. i don't know what runs through the mind of a person like that, but whatever consumes her is great. after doing what she did to get us effectively kicked out, we've been told by other neighbors that she has decided to move out. i've also been told that didn't make the landlord much too pleased and i don't blame him. oh well, i guess.
to the business at hand now... i own a house
i can have a wood-burning appliance. i can stack wood. i'll probably be asking questions and shopping for either a stove or insert. feels good to be back. thanks!
- just pulling your leg. You will love being the king of your own castle.
