I closed on my house
I closed on my house today, it is a great feeling. I was remembering coming here in such a panic and wanted to thank you guys for trying to help.
My kids are due in just over a week and they don't know about the house yet, they didn't even know I was looking and it is going to be a surprise.
I think my daughter will be especially pleased because she was going to return to her mother's early to attend a camp and just recently decided it wasn't worth missing that extra 2 weeks with me and because it increases the chances that she will be able to spend a week with my family. She has never had a room of her own when with her mother, she either has to share with her mother, her brother, or sleep on the couch.
My son will be ecstatic, I didn't know how important a place to permanantly call home was until last year when we were at my parent's house and he was grilling them about whether they owned their house. He even wanted to see the deed. He told them he was going to come live with them the day he turned 18.
We talked about it and he explained that with his mother always moving and often forced to move, he just never felt like he ever had a place that he could really call home and even with me we just rented. My parent"s and my brother's homes are the only places that have remained the same in their lives and they want me there but it is the place in their minds that is always home even though we moved when they were 1 and 4.
I didn't just do it just for the kids because in this market my house payment will be lower than a 3 bedroom rental even with taxes and insurance and so we'll all be happy.
Anyhow, thanks again, I've got a lot of work to do in a week.