Limbo and Bro

The buyer came back with $500 worth of roof repairs, bull$hit really, but we offered to split it just to be done. Well, it looks like the appraisal may be a sticking point. The appraiser from Old Pueblo Appraisals didn't really know that he was in Colonia Del Valle, so he took some comps from houses down south of 22nd street in Crackville (you know, the homes that have no dust on top of them because the police helicopter hovers over them regularly) and used those for the appraisal for this sale. He must have just stepped off of the bus from Iowa last week or something. It's funny the turnaround in appraisers - they were feeding the frenzy a few years ago, now they're adding to the ugly by spitting out low numbers. Anyway, the deal may require a review appraisal, and of course, we'll have to pay another $200 for that. I'm beginning to think that we may have to sell furniture just to get out of town at the rate this deal is going along. I figure that the buyer will ok the roof stuff, we'll get going along, the underwriters will balk, we'll have the review, they'll still balk, and then the deal will fall through. If it goes, I'll be shocked. If it doesn't, we're camping in Tucson until the market gets better in a couple of years. Just when we think we're done, something snags us.


We had a good weekend with J in town for a few days. We hit Sabino Canyon, El Charro, B-Line, Mt. Lemmon and spent some time just playing around with CP. Yesterday was a beautiful day and he got to call his workmates and rub it in a bit. When he left this morning the temp in KC was 19.