Nerves
For the first time, I am really nervous. I am nervous something is going to go wrong. Not the normal wrong but a buyer change their minds wrong.
We were supposed to have our septic inspection done last Tuesday. Well, they couldn't get around to checking until Thursday. When he did it on Thursday, he found some mottling that might indicate that the septic system was leaking. But the weird thing was it was at different levels in different samples and not at all in other samples. So Jim our septic guy thinks that it is because we are lakeshore. There is another house on the block that has the same thing. It is from the fill they used when they build the houses. Some of it is wet.
Okay, Jim is a nice honest guy. He's pumped our septic before. I know his wife and kids from church. He is telling me that he is pretty sure the mottling is from wet fill(it looks all mixed up). He just has to get a guy from the lakeshore board to agree to this. State law says that if they both agree that agreement is good for the life of the system. He can't meet this guy until Monday though....I am finding out this on a cell call Thursday night on the way home from work. Luckily, Shawn and I drove together so we were together for the conversation.
Okay, so I am feeling okay with this. Jim wrote up a note for our Friday deadline. Then our realtor calls Friday afternoon. The buyers' fiance wants to be there when they meet to take more samples. I say "What? They think we are trying to hide something." "yes"
Well we try to get a hold of Jim, but he is out of town for the weekend and he never called back(we left a message).
So now I am nervous that this is all going to go bad. I wonder if our buyers will be so freaked out by the whole septic thing...even if it turns out that it is due to wet lake fill and not the septic system...that they will say forget it. Can they do it if nothing is really wrong. We will lose our escrow in the other house. Do we get to keep theirs? Have I been smart to not register the girls in their new schools yet?
But then I am nervous to move. We are moving into a real family neighborhood...with smaller yards. What if we hate our neighbors or they hate us or hate Krystal? What if the new house is even more work? What if the kids hate their new school? We will be stuck. Was this really the right move?
We were supposed to have our septic inspection done last Tuesday. Well, they couldn't get around to checking until Thursday. When he did it on Thursday, he found some mottling that might indicate that the septic system was leaking. But the weird thing was it was at different levels in different samples and not at all in other samples. So Jim our septic guy thinks that it is because we are lakeshore. There is another house on the block that has the same thing. It is from the fill they used when they build the houses. Some of it is wet.
Okay, Jim is a nice honest guy. He's pumped our septic before. I know his wife and kids from church. He is telling me that he is pretty sure the mottling is from wet fill(it looks all mixed up). He just has to get a guy from the lakeshore board to agree to this. State law says that if they both agree that agreement is good for the life of the system. He can't meet this guy until Monday though....I am finding out this on a cell call Thursday night on the way home from work. Luckily, Shawn and I drove together so we were together for the conversation.
Okay, so I am feeling okay with this. Jim wrote up a note for our Friday deadline. Then our realtor calls Friday afternoon. The buyers' fiance wants to be there when they meet to take more samples. I say "What? They think we are trying to hide something." "yes"
Well we try to get a hold of Jim, but he is out of town for the weekend and he never called back(we left a message).
So now I am nervous that this is all going to go bad. I wonder if our buyers will be so freaked out by the whole septic thing...even if it turns out that it is due to wet lake fill and not the septic system...that they will say forget it. Can they do it if nothing is really wrong. We will lose our escrow in the other house. Do we get to keep theirs? Have I been smart to not register the girls in their new schools yet?
But then I am nervous to move. We are moving into a real family neighborhood...with smaller yards. What if we hate our neighbors or they hate us or hate Krystal? What if the new house is even more work? What if the kids hate their new school? We will be stuck. Was this really the right move?
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