Today we are going to the notary here in Germany to close on the house. Everything won’t likely be totally final until October 1st because the heirs of the house (sellers) have some things they still need to take care of and we need to entered into the “Grundbuch” (the owners book for the property). But we should get the keys today and sign contracts and all that so it will essentially be ours.

There were a few problems with the contract and it was very biased to the sellers so we have had a few things adjusted so we don’t get the short end of the stick. There was also a stipulation in the contract that said we could essentially not begin any work on the house until October 1st which was a major issue for us so we’ve asked for that to be changed since we clearly want to get in there sooner. Perhaps all the work won’t take more than 2 months to complete but we’d much rather be on the safe side and not be running around and going out of our minds because our time frame is closing up on us.

We have a lot of work cut out for us and we are both really excited but, in a way, I think we both feel like it’s still not realy happening. Perhaps it won’t even feel “official” tonight but I think the first time we get in there by ourselves and can start working on things that it will all feel very different.