approved!

we're so excited! we just heard back from our appraisal and we 'passed'!! the house was appraised for a whopping $10k more than our list price, so we are well on our way to homeownership.

vince and i were really worried about the garage being flagged and stalling the process, so this is a huge sigh of relief. in fact, our broker said this is the largest gap he's seen in his 10+ years of the business. we can easily tell him how and why; we only prayed 7593483728439455483 times that things would work out. so, praise be to god that we're in the clear!

our next stepping stone: home insurance. it just keeps getting better...