Joan Mirantz- Concord New Hampshire Realtor

Alphonse and Gastonwas an American comic strip by Frederick Burr Opper, featuring a bumbling pair of Frenchmen with a penchant for politeness.
The strip's premise was that both were extremely polite, constantly bowing and deferring to each other. Neither could ever do anything or go anywhere because each insisted on letting the other precede him.(Wikipedia)

Yesterdays closing should have been without incident.

My Clients ,The Buyers, of a Bank Owned property had cleared through their financing in record time. They were happy with the agreed upon price and the Seller (NHHFA) had even granted concessions on Closing Costs. The Home Inspection revealed no surprises and we were set to close.

(I should have known better)

WE had our early afternoon walk-thru and headed back to the office for closing.
When I came through the door My Buyers Mortgage Broker was sitting there with his head in his hands....I had that sinking feeling....

It seems the Seller was refusing to sign all of the closing papers. In order to limit any possible hint of any liability....they will only sign 3. (the deed,the title and the HUD). On the other hand, The Buyers Lender insists on having 5 signed. The 3 above and two other innocuous ones (something about correctness of address)
Neither would give....we were at a standoff. And all of the decision makers were at lunch.
My Buyers were beside themselves.

When the "lunch-goers" returned, at least an hour was spent going back and forth with each player insisting that they were right and the other should give in....as a result....nothing was happening!
At that point the closing attorney announced that he had one card up his sleeve. He went into the other room to make a call. He returned with a big grin on his face.

WE WERE OK !!!

It seems 25 years ago he had worked with one of the decision makers at NHHFA. He explained our situation and she said....in a human, sensible, logical NH fashion...well that's just silly! I have no problem signing those. It was as simple as that!

We were fortunate to be able to circumvent the red-tape with a personal contact.
Most others are not so lucky!
How many other transactions have been stopped in their tracks for such foolishness?
Whatever happened to common sense and people power?

I'm still shaking my head ........
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One of our long standing contributors to Active Rain, Joan Whitebook, just received The NHAR Good Neighbor Award.

Joan's championship of the New England Pet Partners organization is familiar to all of us who read her Local, Informative and Interesting Posts here on Active Rain.

This is just another example of the caliber of folks we find here on Active Rain.

I'd love to see everyone jump over to Joan's Blog and give her a "High Five"
I'm betting it will make her day!

Joan Mirantz~Concord New Hampshire Area Realtor

Concord NH Area Realtor

Concord Area NH Realtor

I have heard that phrase every August....for 40 years!

My husband and I just celebrated(?) our 40th wedding anniversary this month and every year he uses the occasion to remind me we had the opportunity to attend the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival and have a lot more fun!

So this year, since we were taking a brief car trip get away to Corning NY, I plotted a return route that would finally take us to Woodstock and free me from the mantra!

My first discovery was that the Woodstock festival wasn't in Woodstock at all. After many obstacles to production the promoters moved it to a cow field in Bethel NY ....."just down the road apiece". It was actually at least 50 miles away, but on the route...so we made the detour!

Now I knew a plaque had been erected and last year they had opened a small museum, but I wasn't prepared for what we found!

But....a little more in the spirit (of peace and simplicity)....down at the bottom of the hill was the commemorative plaque! (you New Yorkers may have caught us on the evening news...we were interviewed by an AP correspondent who liked our story)

Can You Read Those Names??

We soon found out that the beautiful building we first saw was the Bethel Woods Music Hall. The museum tribute to "Woodstock" was in a separate area of the building.
Because this was the 40th anniversary month, there was a special acknowledgement of the occasion.

This says it all!

This is the closest my husband will get to fulfilling his fantasy!

No picture taking was allowed indoors so I have none of the exhibit itself but I can tell you there was lots of information and great presentations that were strangely able to make you feel you had ALMOST experienced just a bit of the moment!

Funny...when we left there I came close to agreeing...

We Shoulda Done Woodstock!!

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Concord NH Area Realtor