Seems like "the house":http://feralboy.com/log/archives/001468/ is going to be ours. Got a call from our realtor person last night, and they're having a hard time getting both signatures from the previous owners. Apparently it's some sort of divorce situation, and the woman is in Florida and has signed our offer, and the guy is a long-distance trucker who needed to find a fax machine (the "mojo wire", as HST would have called it), but had given a verbal ok on our offer (and oh, what a fun story their divorce must be.. shades of Britney and K-Fed, that one). Their only counter-offers were that they _weren't_ going to have the place professionally cleaned (which is a damn shame, because it looks pretty shitty in there at the moment) and they weren't going to remove the metal shed in the backyard that was housing all the dog poop. The shed is no biggie, because upon further inspection Kim and I decided that it wasn't really that bad, and our realtor said she was going to pay for cleaning if they wouldn't. Seeing as how she's making $6k to do nothing besides sign some papers and send some faxes, I suppose she can afford it. Today we should be able to get some more ink on papers, and start escrow tomorrow. Inspection within the next 10 days, and I'll be going to observe, and I'll be able to take some more pictures of the inside. Yay, I'm going to be a homo-wner!