Ockham's Razor - Paperwork

by Little Miss Can't Be Wrong

Brian complains that all I post about is books any more. That's because almost all I do is read, but the other thing I've been doing lately is paperwork. A lot of things managed to happen while I was on business travel, too, so we paid Kinko's (now called FedEx Office) a whole bunch of money so that I could print, sign, scan, and e-mail a number of different documents. First, we sold the condo. That was a lot of paperwork, some of which was ridiculous. We went around in circles with the buyer's agent, because our agent had insisted on calling me Margaret MaidenName LastName on all of our paperwork, even though that's not my legal name. (When I bought the condo, I was Margaret MiddleName MaidenName, and I never changed the title. Now, I am Margaret MiddleName LastName. One form actually managed to drop my first name, calling me just MaidenName LastName.) The buyer's agent complained that I had signed Margaret MaidenName LastName (because my agent insisted) but had initialed using my legal initials. Escrow is set to close on October 23rd on the condo. Our agent has been pestering us to close early; at one point, we offered to close early if the buyer paid us to do so, and our agent was obviously offended, explaining that the buyer was only offering to close early out of the kindness of her heart. If that's actually the case, it was explained pretty badly. We may end up closing one week early anyway - it does save us a little money, but not so much that we'll rush our moving very much. I would hate to be buying a house if our credit was bad. Ours is good, and there's still so much documentation to be done. The other day, we received an e-mail asking us to identify any debt that was not listed on our credit reports. I have one student loan at no interest - so there isn't any value in paying it off early - on which I still owe a whopping $204. I filled out the form, listing that loan as the only debt that we knew of that isn't listed on our credit reports - and, of course,...

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