Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Home Stretch, Home Stress
Today's Monday. We close on the new condo on Friday. I'm not convinced my lender is going to have everything done in time. They have to FedEx forms back and forth from the lender (in California) to the title company in DC to us in Colorado and then back to DC.
Important safety tip: do NOT use Lending Tree when you get a home loan. Their commercials sound good, but they need to spend less on marketing and more on salaries -- they definitely need more people working for them.
There was a period of about 8 days where it seems the paperwork I sent them wasn't exactly what they needed, but they didn't bother to tell me that so I could correct the problem. Did the process stall for those 8 days? I think so. I told the banker a week ago that if they can't do this in time, if we need to fly out to DC because the paperwork won't move around in time, then they need to let me know THEN. I have this horrible feeling they're going to pop up Wednesday and say, "can you drop everything and fly to DC?"
Nothing I can do about it now, and I need to quit worrying about things I can't control. I think it just bugs me that this is what these people do for a living, this is what I'm paying them to do, and they're doing a crappy job. Why can't people just do a good job? I mean, if I do a lousy job, someone holds ME accountable. And I just can't imagine not taking enough pride in my work to do it right.
Stupid bitch, making me all nervous and stuff.
Important safety tip: do NOT use Lending Tree when you get a home loan. Their commercials sound good, but they need to spend less on marketing and more on salaries -- they definitely need more people working for them.
There was a period of about 8 days where it seems the paperwork I sent them wasn't exactly what they needed, but they didn't bother to tell me that so I could correct the problem. Did the process stall for those 8 days? I think so. I told the banker a week ago that if they can't do this in time, if we need to fly out to DC because the paperwork won't move around in time, then they need to let me know THEN. I have this horrible feeling they're going to pop up Wednesday and say, "can you drop everything and fly to DC?"
Nothing I can do about it now, and I need to quit worrying about things I can't control. I think it just bugs me that this is what these people do for a living, this is what I'm paying them to do, and they're doing a crappy job. Why can't people just do a good job? I mean, if I do a lousy job, someone holds ME accountable. And I just can't imagine not taking enough pride in my work to do it right.
Stupid bitch, making me all nervous and stuff.
