Relative Something

We ran into a couple obstructions yesterday that are keeping our starry-eyed dreaming mired in reality. Cyndie got a copy of her credit report to find out what was up with the phantom $13K charge to Chase bank that the mortgage lender listed. The day before she had exhausted all options of asking people at every possible loan department what the line item might be. Then, with report in hand, she called a second time to see if the account numbers would help them identify it. After several denials, the person on the phone came to the realization that the account number referred to a loan that had been sold to someone else, and that it happened at the same time Cyndie paid it off, in full.

They had record that it was paid in full years ago, but somehow it didn’t get cleared off the reports. They said someone would look into it and that it would eventually get taken care of. Cyndie insisted that they provide a letter immediately to confirm it was paid in full and explain their error, and then look into it and get it taken care of after that.

Then we got the results from the Radon test. The reading from the short test was over double the legal limit of 4 pCi/L. The EPA recommends that when using the short test, a reading be taken of the average of two tests. When you are in a race to close on the sale of a house, apparently one test is good enough to immediately call a more than willing contractor to come swooping in for a wad of money to throw some PVC pipe and a fan to make everything all safe and sound. Color me cynical about the whole Radon threat.

There is a threat of death by automobile crash every day, but that doesn’t keep us from driving. I guess the PVC pipe and fan is like wearing a seat belt. Once I get used to it, I’ll hardly even notice it’s there. At least I don’t have sleazy contractors eager to sell me after-market seat belts that will make me even safer in my car from the ever-present threat of a crash. Blech. Knocks me out of my dazzled visions of our new paradise in Beldenville.

Luckily, we were able to join friends Barb and Mike for a luxurious evening on their boat in Lake Minnetonka last night. The sunset put on a nice show that helped to sooth our bumps from the day.