Oops.

Apologies for a few days of no posts...our kitchen is done, we spent the weekend unpacking, running our dishwasher like 85 times and doing other projects. Lots of pictures to come.

Had one of those "Oh we are the OWNERS and no one is there to help us" moments this morning. Neal and I went on a walk early this morning, where I realized I'd grabbed the wrong key. No landlords to call. Just us. Shit.

Luckily, Emily, Neal's little sister is staying with us for a bit, so lots of knocking, yelling and throwing rocks at the guest room window woke her up. Sorry, Em!

Wanna see something gross?

So remember our plumbing adventure this weekend? Well, we got that rotten pipe replaced yesterday and I can't help but share the grossness with you. It's not all subway tile and paint colors folks.

Gross:

Grosser:

And the pièce de résistance...

How could water even flow through that thing!?

 

Why we bought where we did...

Here's an interesting blog post about people like us (though with more money than us) buying multi-unit properties in our neighborhood of Echo Park. I think we picked a good neck of the woods. (Via The Eastsider)

It's almost time...

Today, the bank "funds" our loan...money is moved...the house itself changes hands. We can talk about it more later, but it's overwhelming and intense. Friday we went to our escrow company and signed hours of documents. Everything from a form making us agree to get flood insurance if we are in a flood zone, and then ANOTHER document making us aware that we ARE NOT in a flood zone.

I think we get our keys tomorrow.

The other final piece of the puzzle, is that over the weekend our house was tented and fumigated for termites - mostly preventative, no one freak out! When I first moved to Los Angeles and saw these striped tents I thought it was so insane. Now, I barely even notice them.

Look how big the building looks in it's stripey glory...jeez. The tent comes down today, the place airs out Tuesday, and Wednesday AM our workers go in and start some demo.

Get excited.