Property Owner, Times Two

So now - after a very aggravating delay of a day because the loan documents were not quite ready in time - we now are the proud owners of a house! Another house! Two houses, on the same street. (I wonder if we can live in one and our kids can live in the other? Is that legal?)

The current homeowner is still in the process of moving his stuff out - we gave him until the end of the day - and Joel, who has been in there this morning, has advised me NOT TO SET FOOT IN THE PLACE until after it is cleaned. And possibly after new carpet is installed. And after someone mows the foot high grass in the back yard. It is rather a mess. So I am taking his advice and staying away for now ;) We have our cleaning service coming tomorrow morning, and Joel is out carpet-shopping at the moment (we had scheduled Empire but Joel felt like we were getting ripped off and decided to shop around on his own instead). Thursday and Friday we are having basically the entire interior painted, including the bonus room which is being painted midnight green, silver, and black (1/3 green, black stripe, 2/3 silver) in honor of the Philadelphia Eagles. With a big Eagles helmet Fat Head on the wall. (Hey, Joel bought me a house, I had to concede something). Not to be left out, Ben has garnered a single wall of Eagles green in his room, and a LeShaun McCoy Fat Head, and Becca is getting Disney Princess Fat Heads, though if you call them that she will vehemently deny that they are "Hat Feds" as she usually accidentally calls them.

Food for thought - our soon-to-be new neighbors on BOTH SIDES of us drive Porsches.Way to give someone a complex ;)