Patience is a virtue

Today was a test of my patience and hopefully I passed. Patience with the appraiser who is taking FOREVER to finish his report so that our lender can finalize our loan amount (for the Ft. Lauderdale property). Patience with the closing agent who sends emails out saying:

WE WILL ONLY ACCEPT A WIRE TRANSFER FOR
DEPOSITS AND/OR FUNDS TO CLOSE

ALL  LENDER INSTRUCTIONS/PACKAGES MUST BE RECEIVED
48 HOURS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF CLOSING.

**ABSOLUTELY NO EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE TO THESE RULES** 

*****NOTE: Our office will be CLOSED Thursday November 27th
and Friday November 28th for the Thanksgiving Holiday.  
Closings must be scheduled by November 25th
or extensions will be needed. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!

The closing agent got a little snippy with my pal "Paula" .... they have all these weird policies like they won't pay for insurance the day of closing..we had to have it pre-paid (not typical) and this whole thing about having packages a whole 48 hours prior to close. For what?!? Like Paula said "Um...its just paperwork. It's like they need 48 hours to press the print button" LOL! They still haven't even given Paula the final HUD but whatever..she managed to get the paperwork out anyway.

Anyways, I called up Miss Snippy and covered her with kindness and it sounds as though even though the paperwork got to her at 4:30 pm vs. 2:00 pm, she's going to go ahead and close us on Wednesday. We'd really rather not wait til Monday because we'd require another contract extension and we'll probably have to deal with closing the other house on that day anyway.

Thanks to Mr. Slowpoke Appraiser, we're not going to close on the Ft. Lauderdale property on time -- more on that later. I am praying that he gets that report in tonight or first thing tomorrow morning so we can move forward with a closing date.

Again...a test of my patience. I had to channel Job today...stay steadfast. Focus. The blessing is just around the corner.

Oh, and I did meet my goal of getting offers out over the weekend - a total of 13 offers went out ranging from $32-40K. The listing agent for the Ft. Lauderdale property also told me that she just got a full duplex listing that hasn't sold for 4 months (listing expired with another agent so they gave it to her to try to sell) and asked if we wanted to take a peek. We're going to check it out. There may be a darn good reason it hasn't sold for 4 months ;-).

Looking forward to my second private money recruiting mentoring session tomorrow with Trevor and Pat. I still haven't finished the pitch and I need to get one of my mentors to critique my delivery before the Thanksgiving weekend is over. That's the goal.

Ok, I'm rambling now.