I’ve been spending the past few evenings on mail, IM and the phone to various mortgage lenders and realtors. Realtor 1 is pretty bad at communication. she needs prodding and poking to give any information out. By comparison to Mortgage Lender 2 though, she is the fount of all knowledge, wisdom and a little bit gushy.

Mortgage lender 1 has dropped out of the race so we’re left with ML2. I’m going to start using his real name (Rick) because it helps with what passes for humor these days. Rick remains confident of the loan and but seems to have ever more crazy requirements for proof of assets, income and so on. The requests are so frequent that he’s put me onto his assistant (Tiki) to procees them. I’m waiting for Tiki’s assistant (Davey) to come out of the woodwork and start asking for even more ridiculous documents (RickiTikiDavey! geddit?)

Whatever, the end is in sight. Rick phoned the long suffering Jason last night and had him sign some mysterious documents. He then told Jason that the loan would be approved today one way or the other. Note that he told Jason, not me. Luckily Jason has his own eMail account and so we can keep up to date on our mortgage through the grapevine.

Here’s a picture of Jason to keep you amused.

[30 March - edited for gibberish]