The homeowners are pushing for a speedy closing. I'm all for speedy. Winter's coming and I am twitching to curl up in front of a roaring fire in my new living room.

But....

Oh yeah, there's a but. They want to close early and then stay in the house until Jan. 10.

Hrumph. They'll be paying "rent" and all that but there's something a little anticlimactic about closing on a house and then not getting to run around from room to room cackling "mine...all mine..." Or something like that. We were kind of hoping for New Years Eve in the new place. Maybe they'd like to have us over?

Still happy it's a done deal as long as inspections go well.

on edit: Apparently they thought it would be ok to stay there and not pay because "we would be paying that anyway." Ummm, sure...we'll be paying a mortgage for the next 15-30 years anyway as well, wanna stay? I think not. They won't be staying for free. Isn't going to happen. We'll try and work something out but it won't be us paying two mortgages while you get your new house ready. Sorry.