Closing

I closed on the house Friday, April 20 at 2pm. There was a small glitch at closing. For some yet to be discovered reason the Dolittle city tax did not make it to escrow. Now keep in mind we are only talking $45 here. Dolittle has a population of around 600.

This was brought to the attention of the title company by the seller at closing. The seller claiming that she had notified her realtor of the earlier. Her realtor was not there due to illness. My realtor, the sellers realtors daughter, (its a a small town folks) could find no record of this. Of course everyone was freaking, thinking that they would have to postpone. Thank god, my loan officer who was also attending, (again, it's a small town folks) interjected and said, why don't you ask Roger, I'm sure he is fine with just paying it separately each year. This of course was all occurring in an adjacent room, and I am hearing it all through the walls.

Of course I had no problem paying the $45 dollar annual tax direct to the city. Nor, was I concerned about the $13 the seller had accrued for this year. After settling this last bit of high finance, we finally signed the paperwork. The house is now ours.