Owning A Home Is NOT Easy

Not that I expected it to be. I just didn't expect for so many things to happen at once.

So, when I was getting my house inspected back in (I believe) October, "L" and I just so happened to meet my soon to be neighbor. He lives in the house directly behind mine. He told us a little bit about himself and the neighborhood. I truly didn't think I would see him that often.

Well, these past few days I've been going back and forth between the house and my apartment having the cable/phone turned on, house/carpet cleaned, etc. I was sitting in the house yesterday afternoon getting ready to go back to my apartment when the doorbell rings. It's my neighbor.

Him (rather excitedly) "We got a problem."
Me: "What?" (While thinking to myself, "You better not start
Him: "Your tree is about to fall on my house!"
Me: "WHAT???!!!"

We go to the back of the house and sure enough, my tree is leaning over. Ugh.
I told him I would see about taking care of it and get back to him. I called 4 tree removal services yesterday. Now, granted it was Sunday afternoon, so most of them were closed. Don't you know that only ONE called me back today...and that was AFTER 4pm!!!
I went back to the house today and did find a different man who can cut the tree down tomorrow. Luckily he picked up the phone and came out right away. He's ONLY charging me $350 but after shelling out close to $10k this past week on closing, cleaning, etc that $350 feels like a million. However, it's something that needs to be done.

I'm still very happy that I was able to purchase this house. I'm not complaining at all, but I'm definitely getting a more realistic view of home ownership. There's no landlord to call. I am the landlord now. Time to start saving up some money again.

Stay tuned.