Virginia Adventures X - The Quest for the Missing Documents

 Most of you know that we've closed on both houses (here in Virginia), but you haven't heard HOW we closed.

Let me explain.  No, there is too much. Let me sum up:

  • On December 28th, we knew the physical documents we had to sign for the Virginia house had entered the state of Oregon, but the Lawyer in Virginia had accidentally put the wrong address on the envelope.
  • We signed on our house in Amity at 9 am, and hoped the documents would get to the title company by the UPS East Coast cutoff for return to Virginia. The title company thought that was 3 pm.
  • UPS delivered to the title company at 9 am, but all they had was the buyer's documents for the Amity house.
  • We called around to the lawyer and UPS, got the tracking number, and Etc.
  • At 2 pm we found out UPS had the documents, at the Tualitan center. We could come get them, but we could not bring them back to the notary, get them signed, and return them to UPS.
  • We hoped in the car, and drove to the title company, kidnapped the notary (willingly), and brought her to UPS.  She had to be back in Newberg at 4 pm. We got to UPS at 2:55 pm
  • We found the documents thanks to Gil and Theresa, and we found out the cut off for East Coast was 4:20 (Dude!). We copied, signed, and notarized everything right there at the UPS customer center.
  • Hopped back in the car, and got the notary to Newberg at exactly 4 pm.
We found out the next day that everything had been received and recorded in plenty of time, and our closing was complete.

I want to thank Wanda of Beales law office, Gil and Theresa at UPS, and Mary Jane at Ticor Title for their help with this matter.  They all went above and beyond to help make this happen.

We have a house in Virginia!

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