get some bubble mixture and go blow bubbles.  It's very therapeutic

Real linoleum—as distinct from synthetic versions or vinyl—is made from all-natural materials, including wood flour, rosins, ground limestone, powdered cork, pigments, jute and linseed oil. As such it is one of the greenest flooring options out there today.


https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-talk-floor-plan/

 

Better luck with the next shoes!

Don't forget to cancel all the utilities that go with the sold house, Including water & sewer.  Easy to forget that and then you get the bill in 3 months for water you didn't use.

@glatt - I need to do that still.  The realtor asked for the companies, so I'm not sure if the buyer did it already, but I'm checking.  Although now that I think about it, I don't know that I've gotten a sewer bill this whole time :|

@bruce - I've been paying all the bills.  It wasn't much since the house was vacant.  I'm pretty sure I was required to maintain it so it wasn't labeled as abandoned.  Lot of good that did.  Sadly, I was booked for a 4 day weekend at the beach last year.  In May.  Obviously, that didn't happen.

The sale went through.  Of course, there were problems.  The realtor gave the buyer the wrong address so it took longer for me to get the documents.  Instead, they emailed them and I printed them out and sent them overnight to the address on the documents.....which was the wrong fucking address.  AND because it was a holiday weekend, it wasn't even really overnight.  THEN, they sent the fucking documents over docusign anyways.  It was awesome having the realtor call multiple times in a row and texting me while I was in a fucking meeting.  I'm glad I'll never deal with her again.  She never told me anything and then all of the sudden everything was an emergency.  The documents were sent on Thursday.  If I had gotten a tracking number, I could've seen the WRONG FUCKING ADDRESS and corrected it immediately.

And of course, because fuck PNC, they started putting stickers on the house - I guess to say it was foreclosed or abandoned or something - the DAY OF THE FUCKING CLOSING.  Luckily, that's the buyer's problem now.  I'll consider it complete when I get the check in my hand.

Good news is that it looks like the credit card was updated to have a zero balance.  I have to double check though, but that would be awesome.  

@Bruce - I'm in a different state 

Well, the house crap isn't over. I just fucking knew it.  The piece of shit (buyer's) lawyer's office sent the check THROUGH THE REGULAR FUCKING MAIL and it still isn't here.  Considering that they sent the documents to the wrong fucking address in the first place, I don't have much faith.  It doesn't take a week for an envelope to get from PA to NC.  I am so pissed off.  I've informed my lawyer, but it was around 5pm.  I'm hoping something bad can happen to them (the buyer's lawyers).  Of course the realtor doesn't fucking care.  I told her yesterday and she was just like "maybe have your lawyer call them".  Like, THESE ARE YOUR FUCKING PEOPLE, BITCH!  DO SOMETHING.  I'm sure she got fucking paid.

Still waiting for the car title, too.

Good news is that the buyer already changed all the utilities, so the final bills are on the way.  I actually got a decent payout from the union.  I was able to finally change the insurance with USAA.  I'm going to call the credit card company and just confirm that there's no balance.  And fuck xfinity, they'll be the absolute last thing I pay off.

 

Finally got the house payment today.  The sent it overnight on Monday (I'm guessing after the overnight deadline), so they just fucking lied about sending it last week.

Of course I'm still waiting on the car title, so that means another call to the DMV tomorrow.  At least they're relatively pleasant to deal with

@monster - thanks  

Things are starting to wrap up.  I still need to call two different divisions of comcast and discover card.  After that - nothing.  The estate tax return get submitted and I wait 6 months to pay out the "inheritance".

One thing that's hit me recently with buying a house and all the decisions that go into setting it up, changing it, etc - I am really missing my mom.  The mom from years ago who was still immensely flawed and damaging, but different than she was in her last 10 years.  I can't explain the difference, but it was there

I just got the tax return for the estate.  There's a credit card I expected to pay that was under my mother's SSN, so, no payment for you!  And since Comcast/Infinity/what the fuck ever are being such dicks, we aren't paying that.  I called to ask for a bill and was told "we can't do that because it doesn't exist".  You don't have a fucking printer in your mega company??  They had the AUDACITY to say "We're a new company" NO THE FUCK YOU AREN'T!  Comcast is old as fuck and Xfinity has been around for years.  Besides the fact that Xfinity is A PART OF THE COMCAST CONGLOMERATE.  So, fuck you.

Still waiting on the personal tax return, though.  Getting kind of nervous because of the address change.  I didn't include my parents names when I did it.  There was a STACK of junk mail at the old place because of all the crap they signed up for and money they sent to people.

@foot - thanks.  It's all pretty much done now.  I wish I could give the IRS a FedEx number, but I don't think that would work 

@Bruce - regardless, I can't hurry the IRS.

bbro wrote:

@Bruce - regardless, I can't hurry the IRS.

Well you can, but you probably wouldn't like prison.