When to start packing during escrow
Getting Final Approval on our Dream House + Packing/Moving Tips
all right the house is starting to look
more bear we're moving out we're moving
out Sadie Sadie we're moving out
hey guys what's going on it's Javier
here it is uh what is it remember first
Halloween was yesterday was fun we
dressed Nolan up as a Ghostbuster right
Nolan yeah and Sadie was the Stay Puft
Marshmallow and here's a picture of it
it was awesome we're also it's gonna be
the picture of the day at the end of the
video but anyways I wanted to give you
guys an update on the house for
everybody isn't following a journey
first of all thank you all for the
positive support I know a lot of people
you guys are enjoying following our
steps to our dream home and it's all
going to conclude with a walkthrough of
the dream home so I know some of you
guys are asking for it but you're gonna
have to be patient I wanted to make a
video about the appraisal coming in and
having to negotiate the appraisal with
the owners and you know so that way you
guys can see how I did that but
appraisal came in good it came in and
exactly what we offered no issues so
unfortunately I can't make a whole video
about the appraisal process in my
situation it came in right at the value
we were a little concern about it but at
the end of the day you know the worked
itself out so instead I'm gonna kind of
fill you in on other things that have
been happening so we submitted all our
documentation for a loan and we got
what's called a conditional loan
approval conditional loan approval means
that the loan has been approved but
they're just some conditions that need
to be met because our conditional loan
approval came in and our proposal came
in good we are now came in well not good
well came in well we're not packing
taking down a lot of our family stuff
we're probably gonna take that down too
right no the family portrait
only it's safe up there for now
yes Mullen because we're moving to a new
house yeah that's helped do it no has a
pool yes it does and it has poo too so a
little kind of ranch but kind of good
thing happened to us so we realized he
get so silly when he sees the camera
don't just be normal just say hi how you
doing Oh check this out so everything's
been going super smooth and the lender
said hey if he hasn't closed soon or you
can and we said that but then we usually
have we realized we have a bros giving
event that we do every year that's gonna
be the weekend before Thanksgiving and
the way things were we were packing
everything up and it was just getting
stressful and we couldn't really imagine
doing your Bros queuing here in an empty
house and on top of that so we said why
don't we push it so we talked to the
sellers and the sellers you're totally
fine with it
so we're now moving in a week before we
were supposed to and that sounds like
great news but it stretched mercy out
cuz I just basically moved all four pens
up by a week right so I just sent this
message to Lizzie so the worst thing you
can do when you're buying a house is go
buy a car or open a new credit card or
something so we just got some great news
and instead of just calling her and
thanking her as a normal person I'm
doing a little prank on her I just
messaged her hey I just went out and
bought it took Tacoma to celebrate the
house thanks so much for everything I
get my dream car and my dream house so
the reason why I sent that is because we
just got our final approval for the
house so literally the week before we're
supposed to move out we get finally
notice that were approved and I know it
sounds like it sucks but it's just the
way it is they prequalify you but they
don't pre-approve you but they don't
finalize your approval until like a week
or two before you close so
and Omer compared I feel like I am using
them as which will be good because I
could probably relax a little bit the
last few days she's built like this
super awesome system that's making
everything super smooth so when the
movers come in which the first time I
hire movers why always very excited
they're going to be super like organized
so Mercedes can you give us a quick
run-through of your processing systems
what is the first thing you did as soon
as you need to ring them about so the
first thing I did was that was this and
I have this actually from a company that
does planners and I really love their
stuff I have one of their planners here
and they offer these pages that you can
start writing your project down so I
started kind of writing a very loose
list of what very broad before moving
out Lizzy and it a like moving endless
before moving in yeah and then I
realized that within this doing enough
to clear my head because within this I
know like pack pack is like everything
so then I thought okay I found
principles that I can start training and
I built a to-do built to do pages
categories that I could put it so like
declutter and I put go through and put
everything that needs to be decluttered
tactical and as I've got as I've come
back to check on it I can just kind of
cross off things that have been done and
then felt like packed so then this is
like literally every corner of my house
now it's written down in as soon as I
finished the reason why it doesn't look
that done
is because we're still a week out six
days out so I can't pack every single
thing and so I'm not gonna check it off
until every single thing is is put away
that belongs in that category so then we
came up with the timeline I came up with
a timeline it's just a monthly spread
that I filled in that was usually last
two months so there's or they they go
through the scale two months and so then
that's for November when we're moving
this week but that means that got
cancelled obviously got moved up we lost
all that so I lost all that copy and
then on the side here we just have a
little notes about you know utilities
things like that that I know that needs
to be scheduled this is crazy she has a
she basically labeled the boxes before
we even pack them well I just I didn't
label the boxes themselves I just made I
Hadley little quadrant printables and I
estimated about 30 or so I can print
more if we have more so so if we know
remember where something is you'll just
go here and you'll see so once we get
today logs for had the headphones for
kids so the movers were really care
about this part that's for us with the
they're gonna know later so yeah so even
though so the boxes go up by numbers and
then the location where the boxes are
designated to can change but the box
number will not change so like that's
four five six seven eight even though
the location has now changed and it's
just ascending and it doesn't matter
what location it's going to so on the
box says you have the top so the number
box and the location that it's going to
and people like me who are not organized
at all what advice would you give them
to help them because obviously your
brain is different than a lot of things
Mary Sibley
no I'm just kidding um that's okay so
what advice would I give trying to
system find a system that you're gonna
stick to it doesn't have to be like
complex it doesn't have to be it doesn't
have to be color-coded it doesn't have
to be anything insane it just has to be
something that you know that you're
actually going to to follow that
something like we're putting something
together like this if you want pudding
on okay yeah I like just getting it down
just just get down everything Google is
your friend there's a lot of like
timelines I think that's another big one
it's like sets sticking to a timeline if
you get ahead of yourself then that's
great I also wanted to say I have one
more tip and trick is that get yourself
a cool little hold on don't zoom in
don't zoom in I've had two babies get
yourself a little apron like you look
like your take like your little waitress
but this thing is like lifesaver
because this one in particular it was
only six bucks or something you know
super cheap and below link send me the
link for that where you bought it
because it did it is helpful she had
what do you have in there so okay so for
girls a lot of time to like what do you
wear when you're packing up stuff like
you wear leggings and leggings I have
one pair of leggings I have pockets and
those are like revolutionary but anyway
you know most of the times you don't
have pockets or like whatever so anyway
um your I have like my phone here I have
over genuine we're doing like what's in
my bag but we're doing like it what's in
my brain and what's in my moving apron
well they put onto the comb you see
what's in your bag I keep a pen
a pen and keep a sharpie Charlie boy in
the box yeah yeah was making that
sharpie today very good that's the best
sharpie we found that I saw it so then
in the middle compartment I have my
little tiny ceramic box cutter also from
Amazon these things are awesome many
kids have run away with them and I only
worry about them cutting their fingers
I have rubber bands because like this
these are good for cords red tape and oh
I forgot I have like a little
screwdriver in here for taking apart
stuff also it's like I'm anyone so it's
not stabbing me anything
oh well Lizzie just responded it did you
buy cash I'm gonna put no question mark
so I had three chairs
Oh Lizzie calling me hey Lizzie dude are
you kidding me like it's why would I kid
about it it's been my dream car I'm just
kidding Lizzie I just wanted to take an
opportunity to thank you because we got
our loan approval today I forgot to tell
you something super important oh you
maxed out all of your credit cards you
owe how much to the government you've
decided to move out of the country you
never filed your tax returns you bought
a new car if it wasn't for these super
creative ways to keep me on my toes I
don't know how else I get the necessary
adrenaline rush and cortisol to keep
this awesome mortgage bod oh good job
plug in your video in my video so if you
haven't checked the video check it out
but yes I just wanted to give a little
give you a little prank and once again
just thank you me my wife are here with
you and we got the approval today so
we're excited
all righty will you take care now bye
bye she calls everybody honey and babe I
know babe
these are things help guys thank you so
much
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