Yay! Pretty soon you'll have your page of projects! Well, since you're already living there, might be shorter.

And the terrified is completely normal. My back crawled (and I do mean that somewhat literally: the skin on my back was never still with the stressy muscles rippling. You could see it. Such a weird feeling) from when I saw this house until closing happened. And I lost 10 lbs in the week before closing and it wasn't like I was skipping meals or anything!

Java, that's AWESOME! SO excited for you!

That's excellent news, java!

I just had a dream about my house, while I was napping. I went up into my attic (which is huge and empty and un-solid-floored in RL) and discovered a whole bunch of cool shit I didn't know I had, all neatly packed away, and a couple dormer windows that did amazing things that windows can't really do, like have chilled storage spaces behind them, and there was a nice young man up there waiting for me who showed me where everything was and how it all worked, and I was delighted and woke up happy. What does it MEAN?

Also, the process might go a lot faster than you think. I saw this house March 7. I made an offer March 12, it was accepted that evening. Did one round of counter post-inspection, but it didn't change the timeline. I closed April 17. AND I got a new roof in that interval.

It'll be a whirlwind.

Indeed - from offer to closing was only about 4 weeks, in my case. Everyone was motivated!

Man, just thinking about that spring revs me up. It was CRAXY. I was completely batshit and it was fun, in retrospect.

Bonus to java: no moving to do!

Start polling homeowners insurance companies for quotes. You know the property well, but a home warranty might be something worthwhile, at least in the first year. (Which reminds me, I need to exercise mine a bit.) I've used it for non-emergency things like learning how to bleed radiators and maintain a boiler system, but it would cover things like rotor-rootering the sewage line if it clogged (somewhat chronic in this neighborhood. Without an outside cleanout drain, that would be a $500 plumber call, but with the HW, it's a $60 service call. WORTH IT!)

Ahahah. I just went looking through the old threads for the day I made an offer and found this sarameg "Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam" Mar 12, 2009 6:52:10 pm PDT Powers of prediction. I spend probably 15+ hrs a week at the Y.

meara, PECS is a picture exchange communication system -- using icons to communicate. The PECS software is RIDICULOUSLY expensive, cumbersome and stupid -- like Boardmaker which is only PC, costs $300 and must be run from a CD.

Is there any good stuff for iOS? I thought I had read at one point that iPads looked like they might be a really good option for some of this type of software.

Either it is thundering or someone is setting off a big fireworks display. Leaning towards the latter because I see no storms on the radar.

Home warranties can help reassure buyers, but they're mostly an exercise in discovering what they don't cover. You might want to have a home inspector, java. You probably know most of the problems, but inspectors can find things that you never imagined would be the case. For example, your stove hood might just be spewing greasy air into the attic rather than through a roof vent. You can negotiate to get things like that fixed.