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Subject: pins and needles here!

Author:
Heaves

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Date Posted: 06:42:00 05/17/12 Thu

I've been working hard the last few days on the house contract. We hired an attorney to handle the preparations of the contract, and the contract should be finalized today, executed by tomorrow. Until then, my heart beat won't fall below 100.

Some additional news on the above. We decided to put the "rent to own" guy on the back burner, unbeknownst to him. While it was a good offer, it comes with risk. Instead, we got another offer for outright purchase with all the numbers we were hoping for when we first set out on this crazy adventure. He offered 540,000, we countered with 544,000 (4K above what we paid for it), and he agreed. Bonus for him not using an agent. By doing a for sale by owner and finding a purchaser without an agent, we ended up saving somewhere between 27,000-33,000 on commission fees. I'll admit, it's been a lot of work, but I'll gladly take the money over the effort and stress of the sale by owner.

I feel like a sleaze for stringing along the rent to own guy, but he's our backup until the contract is signed with the #1 seed. It's just the way it has to be for the moment. I probably jinxed the entire process by writing about it here.

Today, as you all know, is Ascension Day...another German celebrated holiday compliments of Jesus. The downside is that everything is closed, so you can't really do anything. I would really take my bike over to the shop and get it up to German code, but I can't; the bike shops are closed. German law requires that you have front/rear facing lights, a bell with the proper loudness, 2 reflectors on each wheel at 180 degrees apart, and tire pressure within regulations. I also need mud guards. I plan to leave work early tomorrow to do this.

The number of rules they have here (for everything) is maddening. They have a TV use (note...USE) tax. That means, even if you don't hook the TV up to cable and simply want to play video games on it, they require a 17 euro per month fee for such use. The have, for a lack of better words, TV nazis that go around at night who look for TV light emitting from windows, and then they check to see if you are up to date on your fees. If not, they try to gain entry to your apartment and if they see the TV they fine you 400 euro or something crazy like that.

But on the flip side, people are extremely friendly and don't appear stressed out.

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