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RT @philipargy: At exactly 06 mins and 07 seconds after 5 am, it will be 05:06:07 08/09/10. This won't happen again until 3010!

Saturday, May 21 2005

Buying a house is bad for your mental well being

It all sounded so wonderful and so easy. About a half year ago, "i just needed to put my little scribble on a contract and in a few months the house would be mine". I just needed to get a mortgage and that would be that, no worries and no problems.

And it was all done, at least for a few months it was. Then the mortgagor decided that they din't like the contract and all hell broke loose. Notaries telling me on the left that there's nothing wrong with the contract and my mortgagor on the right telling me that they don't care if it's legal or not they just wont accept it. Evidently this stressed out our assigned notary because he decided to take a unannounced vacation.
Well happily 2 months later and 2.5 weeks before the transfer of the house, (where i need to have a mortgage or pay a 10% total cost penalty) it all got straightened out. A new contract was made and everyone was happy.

And what a joyous week that was, because then the life insurance company decided they needed me to take a medical test and a small blood test, which is perfectly normal, yet not perfectly normal 12 days before the transfer especially not when they have had my request for at least 3 MONTHS. (image this having to go from a doctor, to a doctor at a company whom decides if i can get a insurance, who notifies the mortgagor that it's all right, who then can give me the mortgage. I suspect normally this would take at least a month, perhaps two. Yet now this has to be accomplished in less then 12 days, including weekends and a bit of GUEDAC.

So therefore i can conclude, that if you haven't bought a house, you don't know the meaning of the word stress.