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Date: 15 March 2004 01:19:17
Hi everyone, I've started this wiblog because there's finally something extra-ordinarily interesting happening in my life...
The Adventure: My wife and I are moving to a ski resort this winter, for the entire season, June until October. She works as a masseuse and has a job lined up, I work by myself with my computer, so I'm going to take it with me and get the internet connected to our room and just do what I usually do - in between snowboarding and entertaining all the friends that have promised to visit.
The Problem: We have been having a lot of trouble getting a loan for the apartment we want to buy, due mainly to it being a leasehold property in a resort. Only one of the 18 banks that Aussie Mortgage Market consults would even look at it, and after a month of negotiations they said only this morning that they wouldn't touch it.
The Progress: I just now made a phonecall to my parents asking if they would lend us some equity in their home. We had talked about it on the weekend, they were incredibly terrific about it and it should be all okay eventually. I just hope the seller doesn't get shirty and sell our apartment to someone else before we get all this sorted out...
The Apology: Sorry to start the blog on a bit of a frustrating note. This is meant to be the Adventures of James and Elicia in Australia's Winter Wonderland. I'll have everything that happens from now on about our adventure, lots about Mt Hotham and Australian snowfields once winter is upon us (including photos), more boring but hopefully less frustrating developments in our banking situation, as well as, of course, anything else that strikes my fancy.