Wednesday, November 15, 2017

A few more wrinkles

Ecco Massimo!
We took another meeting with our real estate agent this morning. I am beginning to appreciate that at least some of the difficulties I have been blaming on his lassitude probably reflect the problems he's having with the city (whose xerox machine has not been working since last Thursday, which has temporarily brought that end of things to a halt); the notary (who suddenly decided that all the transfer-of-property documents must be translated into English, to be sure we know what we're signing); and perhaps the sellers as well, for all I know.

Poor Massimo. He really does seem to be trying his best.

The word today was that the town surveyor is going to go to an outside copy shop, which would solve that problem; and Massimo is going to see if the translation studio where Pam works will be acceptable to the notary as a source for the document translations. Tomorrow we're all meeting again, with the seller's dad, who's standing in for her, and hopefully then we'll find out if we can get the sales agreement signed this week. Fingers crossed.

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