House hunting, part 5

Things have proceeded apace--apace like wildfire. (Huh?) We're set to close on Friday; TBO and I are gathering up the masses of cashier's checks to take to the title company along with our signed and notarized loan documents today. Note: at some point in your life, make friends with an escrow officer who is also a notary public! Our friend saved us a lot of pain and frustration in this endgame. She looked over the loan documents to let us know where there were errors (and there was about $10K worth of them!), and was also generous enough to notarize our signatures and initials as well. Thanks, Mihee!
The house itself needs thousands of dollars of work before we can even move in safely, so the fun hasn't ended. We dragged our feet just long enough in the process to squeeze the selling bank into giving us a $2K credit toward repairs, which was nice. It would have been nicer if they had simply made sure the house wasn't a death trap before putting it on the market, but we can't have everything now, can we? The seemingly endless series of "hurry-up-and-wait"s are coming to an end, thank goodness.
Now about that list of things to do . . .