A small hiccup in the buying process

Just when I was starting to relax and get excited about the thought of moving into my very first home at the end of next week, I was informed by my Mortgage Broker yesterday that the bank won’t be able to process my request until the first week of May because they are so busy and overrun with mortgage applications. So much for a quick possession!

There goes the perfect logistics of moving into my new place by the end of the month (since I need to be out of where I’m currently living by May 1st). My friend has insisted that I can stay with her and her husband as long as I need to. And as much as I hate to be a bother, I’m grateful that I can stay with them. So the only thing I’ll have to figure out is where to store my boxes and furniture. Perhaps ex-BF will let me keep my boxes at the house, since I don’t have much stuff, and it’s only a few extra days. But chances are I’ll have to rent a storage unit. Which is a pain. But it is what it is, right? It’s nobody’s fault that the bank is busy, and I just have to go with it and plan around this unexpected hiccup.

And if I’m being completely honest, I’m kind of glad that things didn’t necessarily go according to plan. How boring would it be if everything happened the way we wanted it to happen? I’m learning much more than I ever though I’d learn about buying a home, and I feel optimistic that things will eventually fall into place.

So, even though I have run into a few road blocks along the way with the buying process, the most important things still ring true – I got the home I wanted, at a good price, with a good interest rate.