Rant #3,276: Just Cant Wait

The day appears to finally be in reach!

On Monday, January 29 at 2 p.m., my wife and I have been asked to attend a meeting at a lawyer's office where the house closing sale to the new owner will finally be consummated.

With everything happening around me and to me, I never thought this day would come, but it appears that it finally is right around the corner.

A few weeks back, when I was not feeling as well as I do now, we had to sign some papers where I gave my wife power of attorney to handle my affairs pertaining to this situation, but now that I am so much better, I plan on being there, with my wife, and I will be able to handle this from my family's end.

This all is a dream come true, because since my mother passed away in early September, the house has been a very heavy millstone around our necks, primarily because we were in a reverse mortgage situation.

This situation forced my family and I to vacate the premises as quickly as possible, and this led to a domino effect of one unforeseen problem after another.

The house became a never-ending nightmare, and now it appears that we are just days away from the end of all of this nonsense.

I could not be happier.

The lawyer has to be paid, the broker has to get his cut,  and the reverse mortgage company gets theirs, so my sister and I aren't going to realize much of anything from this sale, but even if we get next to nothing, getting rid of this house will be a relief to all of us.

It is no fun paying for a house you no longer are living in, but that is what we have been doing for a long time now.

You buy a house, you have to take care of the responsibilities of the house, and quite frankly, we have burned through thousands of dollars to keep this house up to snuff while the buying party got its own affairs in order.

And it appears that in just a couple if days, that scenario will finally be over.

I wish the new owner the best of luck, and I hope that they have 50 years of pleasure living at that residence.

But we have to move on from this debacle, and live our lives apart from this home where I spent about a good half century.

That is the way it has to be, and in just a few days, we can finally get out from under the shadow of this place ... and finally move on with our lives.

I just can't wait.