On Monday, our non-binding "offer to purchase" times out. In truth, Connecticut has deemed this mutually signed contract as useful as a piece of toilet paper. Supposedly, anyone could have stepped in front of us at any time. Yeah. Guess that's a buyer's benefit of the current market - less competition. Or maybe the seller just likes us...who knows. It does seem bizarre to me, though, that a contract which implicitly states its binding nature has a reputation of being next to worthless.
In any event, in a rush to beat the deadline, we did a long-lunch mad dash out to our attorney's office in Connecticut on Friday. You know it's serious when you have to sign in triplicate with a witness and then hand over a check for your life savings. Now we wait for the seller to provide their signature while we get our financing package completed. We have so many papers to tote around now that we had to stop by Staples for organizational supplies! A simple blue notebook just couldn't keep up anymore.
As a small measure of decompression - from school, from work, from the house-buying process - we went with friends to Lyndhurst yesterday. They were having a Lego festival there, but aside from that it was the first really nice Saturday of the year. Warm weather, spring flowers, and trees in full bloom. A great little trip to unwind and enjoy being out of the house. I tried to take a bunch of pictures...hopefully I'll get a chance (or the energy) to post them soon.