I went to Las Vegas for the 4 A’s conference and two reporters came with me. G, who is now my reporter as well as running buddy and F, also a friend. I got up Wednesday morning and decided to call the appraiser to see what the difference would be if I enclosed the screen porch since she said I couldn’t count it towards total square footage. And that conversation threw me into a downward spiral. She basically appraised the house not much more than what I paid for it back in ’05 and she was using comps from the neighborhood and not taking into consideration the bayou, or the custom features of the house. <\/p>\n
I called S, my contractor, and he talked me off the ledge. He said lose her, and let’s go with a different appraiser and lender. So I went and drew a hot bath. I had just taken a shower but I had the need to sit in hot water. I called S from the tub and told him what was going on and he also talked me off the ledge. <\/p>\n
I took a lot of deep breaths. Then I went to the Venetian (I was at the Hard Rock, since the Venetian was booked for the first night) and I met up with F and G. I told G that I had had a helluva a morning and was trying to catch my breath. It was so weird – because I had arrived feeling on top of the world – and that call just took the wind out of my sails and made it difficult to focus on work and conference and advertising in general. <\/p>\n
When F walked up, I told G I didn’t want to talk about what was going on in front of him. And interestingly enough this is what F said to me – “Rachel, so good to see you and so glad you are finally in your house. Over the past two years, every time I called it was always, ‘I’m waiting on this one thing and if this happens, then everything will work,'” – ha ha ha – we all laughed – and I realized that I have been living in that state – “if this, then that” – and you know what I suddenly knew that the refi or not – no matter what – that it is going to work out – remember I passed the finish line already on Friday – I moved in. I moved out of the Can, and I moved into the LaLa. <\/p>\n
Appraisals, refi, fences, landscaping, screens, and all of the endless items that need to be addressed – don’t have the urgency that getting into the LaLa had for me – I am dead broke – I’ve robbed myself every which way but loose – but at the end of the day – I’m living in my retirement, my Taj Majal, my investment. <\/p>\n
No more – if this happens, I’ll be okay. I am okay. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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