We Closed! We Closed! We Closed!

We closed on our Tarpon Springs lot at 3:30 today - YAY! We are excited and relieved to get it done.

It was hectic all day. It started at 8:00 when I called our brokerage firm to have them wire funds to our bank. They asked me a series of security questions to ensure I was who I said I was. They grilled me until I was well done :o) I got our address wrong (haha), and I also got the date we built out house in Orlando wrong (what they actually had was the date we refinanced our house 3 years ago). FINALLY they got done and wired the money.

I climbed back in bed to try to get a little more sleep. About 9:30 I got a phone call from Henry, the lot owner in Tarpon. He sounded upset and asked me to write down some things to relay to Jim. I stumbled out of bed, tripping over dogs, and almost blinded by a migraine. I finally got a pencil and paper and Henry related his story.

To make it short, he said the house owner to the south of our lot had set up a fish cleaning/smoking area that encroaches on the south side of our lot. There is a concrete slab about 10 feet long and 3" deep that is over our property line by about 1 foot. A complication is that it covers up the land monument marker. There's also some sort of pipe over the line, and various moveable items, which Henry took care of moving back to the other owner's property.
Henry actually spoke to the other owner, and got him to sign a statement that he would move all encroachments on our property. Hopefully this will all go smoothly :o)

The title insurance lady took Henry's papers up to Tarpon first for him to sign. She ended up staying about 2 hours because she and Henry did so much chatting. He made her fresh orange juice from his citrus trees and showed her some old documents tracing the deed history all the way back to the State of Florida deeding the land for 50 cents an acre to the first owner in 1868, The land has been in Henry's family since his great-grandmother. We're looking forward to being his neighbor.