frank's wild years

just look at what you’ve won!

okay, two things:

- i have officially been accepted to become a volunteer adult literacy tutor. i spent almost two hours with the organizer of the i-care program and learned much more about what the program is like and how it actually *works*. sentence fragments can’t even begin to tell you how EXCITED i am. my training and practicums will take place in september and october. hooray!

- remember the apartment (see july 6th posting) i put a bid on? remember how they didn’t even bother to reject my offer and instead accepted an offer from another buyer? well, here’s the thing: when people put an offer on a place it is always subject to a bunch of other things happening (ie a building inspection, a review of the strata minutes). in this case, the offer that was made was subject to the securing of a source of money to pay the seller.

guess what?!? the folks that put a *better* offer on the place have been unable to secure their financing. therefore, as of midnight tonight, the seller is free to go into negotiations with another potential buyer. that’s me!

to keep you abreast of the situation, i have resubmitted my offer (this time at $7,500 more than i offered last time - - - and also about $3,500 more than my self-proclaimed *absolute maximum*). i should know by early tomorrow if the sellers have accepted my final offer.

this may mean a whole domino effect of things that need to be done over the next 7 - 10 days and a further gamut of things that need to be done in the subsequent weeks. if things check out well and the building inspection and review of the strata minutes don’t freak me out, i plan to take possession on august 15th.

anything could happen in the wild, wild, wild world of real estate.