One of my very wise friends told me when I got my first mortgage that if you haven't been in tears at least once, it isn't a mortgage. I didn't believe it at the time, but she was right. One can hope the title and mortgage industries in your locale are less archaic and convoluted than the ones in Texas, and hire people with IQs larger than the number of fluid ounces in their nail polish bottles.
This was the same friend who also warned me of the Homeowners Law of Threes: Everything takes three times longer than you expect, it all costs three times as much as you plan for, and things break in threes. Regrettably, I've found that one to be true also.
I don't know anything useful about finding life partners, since I was astroundingly bad at picking people to date. I have a fantastic and delightful spouse, but that's only because my friends decided, at the end of another of my disastrous relationships, to find me someone better. They all networked together like a coven of yentas, and the next thing I knew it's 11 years later and I'm still with the wonderful person they fixed me up with.
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Date: 2005-12-13 01:00 pm (UTC)This was the same friend who also warned me of the Homeowners Law of Threes: Everything takes three times longer than you expect, it all costs three times as much as you plan for, and things break in threes. Regrettably, I've found that one to be true also.
I don't know anything useful about finding life partners, since I was astroundingly bad at picking people to date. I have a fantastic and delightful spouse, but that's only because my friends decided, at the end of another of my disastrous relationships, to find me someone better. They all networked together like a coven of yentas, and the next thing I knew it's 11 years later and I'm still with the wonderful person they fixed me up with.