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Friday, December 07, 2007

Our DS-230’s arrived at J’s. I don’t understand why they don’t send it straight to the beneficiary, given that they’re the ones that have to fill it out to return to the NVC. Either way, this is the last of the paperwork that we need to send back to the US before they forward our file to the Consulate here in New Zealand. If only our passports would arrive so we could do it.

J’s stepped up the house-hunting in order to have a place before the boys and I get there. Our biggest hurdle is that although there are a lot of foreclosures and the like in Vegas, the investors are snapping them up fairly quickly. You can’t afford to dawdle, and it appears you can’t afford to play hard ball or enter in to any sort of negotiations. We’ve lost out on a couple of great places already as a result.

Anyway, we’ve put an offer in on a really decent place that has everything we want - separate living area, more than a postage stamp for a back yard and in a good neighbourhood. The good news is that it wasn’t selling, and has been reduced a few times, so we’ll be getting it for about $90,000 less than the original sale price if the deal goes through. The bad news is that it’s a short sale, so it means that it has to go through all sorts of funky red tape for the sellers bank to approve it. There’s one other offer in play, but ours is higher and means the owners will have enough from the sale to cover both the balance of their loan and their closing costs. They’re keen to see it approved before they go in to full foreclosure, and hopefully the bank will feel the same way.

After this place, we are looking at some seriously slim pickings. We will most likely have to sacrifice some of our requirements. We don’t want to do that, but we are running out of time.

We’re told we’ll hear by Monday, so fingers crossed for tomorrow and for a yes!

Friday, November 30, 2007

I haven’t seen my husband in almost a year, and I’m a bit down in the dumps. It’s worse today, because it’s our 9th wedding anniversary.

J decided to do something to make me feel better. He ordered me a beautiful paua shell bracelet so I’d have a piece of kiwiana to bring to the US.

And apparently the courier has lost it. 

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