Look what we got!

Yep, that is a signed purchase agreement! Yesterday I hounded politely called Mr. Mortgage Man.  Actually I emailed him because I didn't want to inconvenience him by calling and annoying him.  Then my phone rang!

 

He said the underwriters had given us the go ahead for the loan so we are well on our way to being homeowners!  Up to this point this is what we have done:

6/4/13- Got original pre-approval.  (The one that meant nothing.)
6/5/13- The house we wanted to look at first sold.  (Thank You Jesus.  Blessing in disguise I do believe.)
6/10/13- We looked at houses and found the one! (We looked at 7 houses in one day.)
6/10/13- We made an offer on our house!
6/11/13- We got the counter offer from the sellers which gave us pretty much everything we wanted and only raised the price we offered by a little bit.
6/13/13- Talked to Miss Loan Lady (ugh) who busted the nice bubble that we were living in by saying we needed at least 20% down.  (Hello what first time home buyer really has that?)
6/13/13- Called Mr. Mortgage Man.  Knew we found the one to help us.
6/14/13-Met with Mr. Mortgage Man.  Gave him the blood of our first born child.  (At least that is what it felt like.)
...then we waited.
6/24/13 Mr. Mortgage Man called and said we were good to go!
6/24/13 Our wonderful real estate agent (whom I have known forever) let us come over to her house to sign since she wasn't at the office.
6/25/13- Emailed Mr. Mortgage Man our signed purchase agreement.

So now we are back to the waiting game.  But now we feel free to pick things out so of course we went to Lowes last night.  That is our new favorite place!

So, the next couple of weeks will be really busy but I wouldn't ask for anything else!