Okay, it's really not as bad as I'm making it out. But everything was going so right lately that there was bound to be a snag right?
So we went to meet with the lawyer... because apparently you can't buy a house without one (don't know why... Brandon, please inform me!). We signed some papers, looked at teh title search etc... Then he hit us with the bill. A wopping... well let's say that it was more than 10% of the cost of my house. Which is insane. People were telling us we should budget about 1/4 of what he was charging.
Kept me up for a while. Called the mortgage specialist for a few questions and mentioned the charge, to which she sputtered "that doesn't sound right." So she made some calls and it turned out that the legal secretary had charged us an extra few THOUSAND dollars... a slight oversight in the math. Man, she should go back to school.
True, lawyers don't necessarily have to be good in math, but I found it odd that the itemized list was all hand-bombed. I mean who does manual math these days with computers and excel and whatnot... just reinforced that what I'm doing at PTC is a good thing. Teaching people to see the importance of proper math / numeracy skills.
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