{"id":2107,"date":"2009-04-06T16:45:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T20:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2020-11-27T17:58:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T22:58:18","slug":"purchase-and-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/06\/purchase-and-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Purchase and Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a low grade horror movie \u2013 once you see the slutty teenager take off her shirt \u2013 you know that she\u2019ll be horribly dismembered in just a few short minutes. The plot points are fixed. The beauty and artistry, such as it is is to be found in their specific execution. Similarly in Opera \u2013 we all know the words, we all know the tune. The performance<\/em> is what matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re purchasing a house. I might be surprised and stressed right now if this were the first time we had purchased a house. It is not. I understand the game. I understand my role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two attorneys, two real estate agents, and one mortgage broker have spent Friday and Monday calling and emailing back and forth \u2013 all in a tizzy. There is a ritual theatre aspect to this whole thing \u2026 and now that I know what\u2019s going on I can relax and appreciate the subtleties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I blocked out most of today and tomorrow with tasks that were time flexible and amenable to doing by laptop. I had plenty of paper in the printer. Plenty of gas in the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This evening\u2019s dance began when the \u201cfinal\u201d version of the sale documents (actually the \u201cpurchase and sale agreement\u201d) arrived in my email INBOX with a pleasant \u201cbing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plot says that at this point I<\/strong> am critically late. I<\/strong> am the hold-up. I<\/strong>, having just received 30 pages of legal document, am now to rush around and get signatures on four copies of it. Finally, I will deliver the precious Binding Legal Agreement to the Agent of the Sellers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The womb of the paper, the pressed dead tree, has been rendered fertile with the printed language from the attorney \u2013 but it must be impregnated with the magic, life giving signature of my pen. This is why a FAX just won\u2019t do, or heavens, some sort of electronic acknowledgement. The agreement can\u2019t live without love \u2013 without a certain amount of drama. Sure, I can transfer my entire life\u2019s savings from bank to bank with the click of a mouse \u2013 but to agree to purchase property<\/em> I have to drive into South Boston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I immediately started attending to my task \u2013 by making a cup of coffee. While I was making the coffee, I heard the pleasant \u201cbing\u201d of a revised version of the final document. I gently stirred sugar into the coffee, and admired the mathematics of the curve of the lip of the cup, how it shapes the flow of the coffee to release aroma \u2026 enhancing the whole experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cbing,\u201d just one more change. My phone rang, it was the realtor \u2013 giving me the cell phone number of the escrow agent so I could arrange a place to hurry hurry hurry and get them the paperwork. Called him up. Said I\u2019m happy to meet him anywhere at all in the Metro Boston area, today or tomorrow. Told him I have the check right here in my hand. Oh yeah, and that other pile of paper too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually, the frequency of the \u201cbing\u201ds slowed. I opened the document and changed it from \u201clegal\u201d to \u201cletter\u201d sized paper so my printout wouldn\u2019t look like ass. Then I corrected the typos that the lawyer \u2013 at his frantic $200 per hour \u2013 had left in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another phone call. Yes, indeed. Got the document. Reading it now. Fixing typos. Typos? Yep. Just a few more. Printing it now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I get in the car to drive, first to redmed<\/a>, for her life-giving signature, and then to an exit just off 93 \u2013 a beach access of some sort. Second exit from a rotary. 7pm sharp. It seems a bit sketchy, but this is what the seller\u2019s agent wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And me, the buyer, the guy with the money \u2013 the guy who pays every single person in this drama \u2013 it\u2019s my job not just to pay for everybody\u2019s tickets \u2013 but also to give them what they want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So off I go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far the performance has been pretty good, actually \u2013 but this is just the second act. The finale doesn\u2019t come around until June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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