Pinal County Layoffs Delay Closing

We were supposed to close on the new Fools On The Hill manse today, but a delay in the county recorder's office has put us off by probably two weeks. Bummer doubled in that our mortgage rate guarantee expires on the 28th. Costs $100 for a 15-day extension.

I'd required that a height restriction be recorded on the deed and that the two-acre parcel be divided, as I don't have and don't intend to have use for 40,000 square feet of horse corral.

However, the pool was built "too far" west, meaning that in order to get it onto our parcel - and to still meet the county requirement that a parcel be no more than 1% less than an acre - some heroic surveying had to be done, including running the west lot line congruent with the pool fence. Apparently in an unincorporated area of Apache Junction, no setback is required.

The other parcel now looks like a capital L with a real fat vertical stroke and a skinny little 33' X 182' horizontal road easement running along the south of our parcel.

Several facts allayed my concerns: the road has already been built, south of the easement; nothing can be constructed or stored on a road easement; and because of the geography, only javelinas and rattlesnakes are likely to be comfortable clambering into and back out of that area.

The timing stinks, though. Herself will be bringing the Message of Quality Diabetes Care to the good citizens of Warsaw in that time frame, I'll be schooling my buds in the fine points of Road Trip Knucklehead Golf, and we have another week scheduled at the cabin with the Mensan flying in for a cameo appearance. We're staying cool. It will all work out.

Probably