Oh. No.

Here it is, Saturday morning as I sit typing, and still no word on when we will be signing papers to own Cheap House. Or, you know, just showing up with a personal check and no obligation to sign anything, according to Hick's original perception. That's the thing with Hick. His proclamations and declarations and assessment of a situation always CHANGE.

After being so sure we would close on Thursday or Friday, after his conversation Wednesday with Loan Officer... Hick recanted Thursday night. 

"Loan Officer said it should be at the end of this week, or early next week."

"You said it would be Thursday or Friday!"

"Well, that's when the gal said she'd send the papers. So I thought it would be then. But Loan Officer DID say later this week, or early next week."

"You'll need to have time to get a cashier's check."

"I ain't worried about a cashier's check. I can just walk across the street and get one from the main bank."

Right now I'm guessing that the closing won't be on Monday. I doubt the Savings & Loan assumes every client will just walk across the street for a cashier's check. I imagine they notify them to allow time for such things.

Besides, I have something more serious to worry about. Also sprung on me Thursday night.

"This new house has a really weird floor plan. The living room is in front, with a bedroom. And you walk down a hall to the kitchen in the back. Off the kitchen is what has to be the other bedroom. But it has a door to the outside! Nobody wants a door to the outside in their bedroom!" [Let the record show that our own home, built by Hick, has a set of French doors that exit onto the back of our wraparound porch.] 

I was thinkin', I could make it just like the other one. The hall is plenty wide. I could make both front rooms the bedrooms. Fit in another bathroom. The hall leads to the kitchen, and the living room would be off the kitchen, with that door to the outside. So you'd have a back entrance right into the living room."

"WAIT a minute! Isn't that something for the next flipper to decide? I thought we were only fixing up the structure, and selling it quick, as a flip. You already have that other house to work on."

"I'm just sayin', Val, that Loan Officer said this house would sell at $130,000 to $145,00 if it was all fixed up."

"You don't need two flips at once!"

Hick wisely shut down his campaign to keep Cheap House. I said we would get the basics done, then list it for 2-3 months. If we didn't get any offers, THEN we could consider finishing it. The Pony is on my side this time.

Meanwhile, Hick's roof guy is meeting him at 5:00 tonight to give an estimate on a new roof for Cheap House.