I am officially a Tennessean!

And of course with some bumps along the way. Original TN condo closing date was set for July 24 at 9:00am. The fun started the week of July 17 and I was in Mexico on business most of the week. When I got back to Nashville on Thursday night, I got a phone call from the movers that they would be a little late picking up my belongings in Michigan on Friday. No biggie, just a quick phone call to my parents to let them know. Then the movers told me they will be dropping off my belongings in Tennessee Sunday morning. Sunday morning?!?! I don't even close until Monday morning. So I called the builder and begged him to let me move my stuff in early and he finally agreed.

Once I got back into the office on that Friday, I had received several phone calls and emails from the closing attorney that they were missing some information from my lender. Not a big deal in my mind because the lender had all day Friday to submit their information and I could still close on Monday morning. I finally got in touch with the lender Friday mid-morning and they were working on sending their information. Great, so I thought at the time. Lunchtime rolls around and still no word from my lender. I then left several messages with the lender and no one returned my call so I am under the assumption they are taking care of it. At 5:05pm on Friday night I received a call from the closing attorney and they still do not have the lender information. And to top it off, the information they did receive was incorrect so that also needed to be corrected prior to closing. Of course, I cannot get ahold of anyone at the bank because it is after 5pm on a Friday. So I had to move back my closing back to 2pm Monday and hope the lender sends their information to the closing attorney first thing Monday morning.

Saturday is final walk-through day. There are still some things that need to be fixed, but for the most part all is fine with the condo. The builder gave me keys and a garage door opener. The only problem was the builder hired a cleaning company to come clean the place before I moved in, but that didn't happen so I spent Saturday night cleaning.

Sunday morning at 9am the movers were to arrive. I finally got a phone call around 10:30am stating they won't arrive until 4pm that afternoon. Around 5:30pm the movers finally showed up. YEAH! Not so fast! They cannot get the semi on my street because there is a low hanging electrical wire. What to do, what to do. Met a lot of my neighbors because I went door to door asking to borrow a pick-up truck from them or someone they knew. No such luck. So we decided we had to rent a small truck on Monday morning and transload my belongings from the semi to the smaller truck to deliver. We decided to meet up again on Monday morning at 9am. Good thing the closing was moved to 2pm!

Monday morning I waited for the movers to call and finally they did at 10:30am. Now they have to pack the smaller truck, get to my condo, and unpack all before 12:45pm so I can leave and go to closing. They arrived at my condo just before noon with only half of my stuff. I asked them (or should I say the one mover. There were 2 movers, but only the younger kid came with this load to move my stuff.) to unload this first load and we would meet up again around 4pm to finish the move. When I got back from the closing they were actually on time and had the remainder of my things. By the time they finished I was too tired and stressed to even unpack one box. Now I just have a big mess to clean up and unpack. I am happy to see all of my stuff again!

I closed on my Michigan condo July 24 also (actually my parents did). Now I am done with Michigan and it is onto Tennessee. Can't wait for the weekend!