Relative Something

This morning, for the first time in about three weeks, I don’t have to get up early and unlock the front door to let in drywallers or painters. We are not completely done with the renovations yet. There are still two rooms that will be getting new carpet. That happens tomorrow morning. Then we are done. Except for the cleaning. And the window washing. And the staging.

I don’t know. Will we ever be done? I’ve grown so weary that it is feeling like this process goes on indefinitely.

We are approaching a point where the fairy tale dream vision that Cyndie and I have about a future horse property is going to merge with the hard reality of the amount of financing we will qualify to receive. I spoke with a representative of a lending company on Monday and provided the initial information to begin the process. Very quickly, the questions she asked, pointed to the challenge we may be facing to base our qualifying on a job Cyndie currently has in Boston.

Yeah, it is a little convoluted.

“No, she doesn’t come home on weekends.”

“Yes, she pays rent there every month, over twice what our current home mortgage payment is.”

It’s hard to tell the lender that magic will happen and our dream can be realized beyond the normal constraints that limit usual finance business decisions.

It will be interesting to see what number the lender offers. What do you bet, whatever it ends up being, it won’t limit which properties Cyndie scopes out in search of our dream. It’s a good thing I have her, because I would actually limit my search to properties it appears we can afford.

We make a great pair. I wouldn’t have chosen to have all this work done on the house if it was only up to me. Cyndie continues to push me to greater rewards than I would ever reach on my own.

I’m having visions that very soon, my reward may be that this house sells and I become homeless. The fancy dreams don’t bother with addressing the nitpicky details like where John lives in the interim between current house and future farm. We might be getting closer to finding out shortly.