Becoming Home Owners

Dear family and friends,

I meant to write this post 4 days ago, but was insanely busy. So let's pretend this is being written on Tuesday, January 25th 2011...

Today Anat and I signed a contract for an apartment, the first home we are to own. It's a nice apartment, in the same neighborhood we live in now, still a short walking distance from Noga and Hadas' school. We insisted on this particular neighborhood, which certainly narrowed the options drastically. Eventually, with quite a bit of luck, we found exactly what we were looking for and are very happy (albeit empty-pocketed ;-)

The place is going to be officially transferred to us on May 15th, and we plan to move in around June 30th, when our current rental ends.

The process was fairly quick (2.5. weeks from first seeing the place to signing), and we've gone through a crash-course in Israeli Real Estate issues, many of which we wish we could have stayed blissfully ignorant of.*

The girls loved the new place and are extremely happy that the deal closed. So is Shahar, but he's always extremely happy ;-) More details about our princesses and prince in a separate post, some other time.

Cheers,

Giora

* I'll spare you the details about corruption and such - those of you interested in the details will need to find a less public medium.