Time to sign away our lives entirely!
A week and a half ago we signed a purchase agreement for a townhouse near Kristen & Chad…3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, 3 stories with a family room! It’s in an association with a community center with a fitness center, party room, & pool, along with biking/walking trails. Also, with association fees and the mortgage, it’s completely affordable–not much more than we’re currently paying to rent our lovely 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath townhome with zero amenities!
Today we got two novels in the mail, as I like to call them. Two copies of all the mortgage papers where we sign away our lives. I wonder how many trees are used to create all these forms that we sign & then just file away somewhere…
So yay! Exciting. We have to turn in notice here by the end of the month, then closing is mid/late November, provided everything goes according to plan.
In other exciting news, we opened our new aerie store last Tuesday. Our store is lovely and beautiful, although it’s so much slower than AE! I’m the hiring manager, so it was incredibly chaotic the first week of September when I was trying to get us a full staff, along with looking for houses. Then, the weekend we were getting ready to open the store, we signed the purchase agreement! Our NSO (new store opener–corporate sends each new store someone to help them open–a manager from another store who has been trained to help, or at the very least, given a list of email addresses and phone numbers of people to contact when something inevitably goes wrong!) figured my stress level must be at about 27 on a 1-10 scale. Oh well, how different is buying a house & opening a store be from taking finals, grading finals, moving, & getting married in a one-week time frame??
my store on opening day!
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