Lesson Learned...

This past Friday I learned a valuable lesson, a lesson involving reading EVERYTHING in a letter or document. 

In the beginning of July, I received a letter of possession for my house. I read from it that my final inspection was to be on the 7th of August and possession was to take place August 18th. I was so excited! that is all I read, that's it. Then I put it aside and thought nothing more of it.

I re- read it on Friday just before my inspection and found out that there was a lot more information in the letter that I failed to read; the fact that they wanted me to contact the mortgage advisor as soon as I got the letter and finish the legal paperwork with the lawyer. Pfft, I don't need to do any of that! It's not important at all! Right? WRONG.

So, as you could guess, my brain was not in the moment as I was inspecting my house.

All I could think of was, "Dangit! I need to call the lawyer now! I might not get my house when I was supposed to! I'm a total and utter moron, why didn't I just read that darn letter!!"

After a few minutes I managed to calm myself and just focus on finishing the walkthrough and figure everything out one step at a time.

I'm very grateful my Dad and little brother were there with me, they were a huge help! They caught several deficiencies with the house I missed!

After the inspection I did the only thing I could, phone the necessary people and beg for forgiveness in my tardiness as well to help me stay on track with my possession. My mortgage specialist is great! I need to send her flowers or something because she simply went above and beyond! She already had most of it taken care of, she was basically babysitting the whole thing while my house was under construction. She advised me on exactly what to do given the circumstances and assured that we can get back on schedule. Now that's mastery of a chosen field if I've ever seen it!

She helped me set up an appointment with the bank on the weekend to finalize everything on her end so she could send all of the paperwork to the lawyer early this week. This is why I had to leave early on our meeting on Saturday, I assure you all I tried every other possible time on the weekend to get it done, 3:00 was the best I could do, sorry for that team.

On a positive note I also found an application for this lesson in kung fu! It goes back to not assuming you know what you are going to be taught. Look at it like it's your first class, everything is new and you want to pay attention to every detail.

So now I can breath a little bit, things should be smooth now, should be. I just hope there is enough time.

I know for sure I will not fall prey to mediocrity any longer when it comes to reading and understanding something I receive in the mail.

See you when I see you.

Take care everyone!