Is it too much to ask?

OMG!!!

I have to wonder about some people. In this particular case it is my sister in law. She gives up possession of her house at noon today. This of course for most people isn’t a problem. For her it is a huge problem, and unfortunately for my wife… it is now her problem.

As I mentioned in the garage sale post a while ago, she is moving into a condo. The reason for this move is that she can’t handle the financial burden of the house on her own. She is so deep in debt that it would pretty much take a TLC style intervention to get her back on track.

This move has so far cost the wife and I over $100,000. Yup, you read that right. $100,000. It is a scary number to work with. But the results are not that bad for us.

Pretty much what happened was that because the sister in law had worked herself into such a deep hole financially, the bank decided that she would not be able to get the mortgage for the new place (despite the fact that she has the mortgage for the old place at the moment). So she asks the wife if she can cosign on her mortgage as that would be about the only way that she could get it.

Long story short, we ended up paying off our mortgage so that we could not only cosign, but be the primary on her mortgage. I still have an uneasy feeling in my stomach about that one.

So, everything is set, and through all of the drama her move date gets pushed back from last saturday. She is finally able to move on thursday. For the normal person, this wouldn’t make a huge difference, other than a lack of entertainment options and real food as it would all be in boxes in the corner.

Not for her.

In fact it wasn’t until wednesday that her entertainment centre got packed up, I know this because it was me that packed it. Seriously, even last night as the movers are moving stuff, she was still packing.

That has to be one of my greatest pet peeves… people who aren’t ready when they are supposed to be. Especially for moving. I am of the opinion that if you are moving, everything should be packed and ready to go before the movers (be it friends or hired movers) get there.

We went over after I got off work yesterday to help her clean the house and it was a mess. Sure there were boxes and what not everywhere, that was to be expected. But before we could start any sort of cleaning we had to take emergency packing measures (read: throwing non breakable shit in garbage bags). We got there at about 7, and it wasn’t until 9 that any cleaning could actually happen.

The wife said she was going to talk to her sister and tell her that everyone that was there to help out that wasn’t paid to be there all said that this was the last time. I myself have helped the sister in law move 3 times. The story you read above has been the same for basically all 3 moves (minus the financial part of course… that is new)

I think the biggest demoralizer was that she said that she wasn’t even intending to clean. I mean seriously, when you have lived somewhere for almost 2 years (and some areas haven’t been cleaned since the day you moved in) you clean the fucking place before you go.

Sure it isn’t like an apartment where you lose the damage deposit if you don’t, but it is common courtesy to give the people moving in the luxury of a nice smooth move. If I was moving into her place as we left it yesterday, I would have to put all of my stuff in storage and clean the place before I would even start bringing it in.

Now don’t get me wrong, it isn’t like out house is immaculate. But I also know that any mess in there is OUR mess. when you move in somewhere, it is somebody else’s mess. That makes me uncomfortable.

I think that is enough ranting on this, I guess I will have to look at the positives. at least the bank doesn’t own our house anymore.