Moving Day Cometh

Well, we have one week left before we move to a new house. I can't believe how many decisions we have to make this week. We're finishing packing, changing utilities and buying materials that will help us renovate the "new" house. Then, next Saturday, it all happens. That is, after a day of seeing lawyers and signing mortgages. It's a process that is overly complicated because of all the people involved, contracts, details -- and their concern with possible lawsuits. How'd we get this this point? Most of us have to do this (almost everyone will own a house in their lifetime), but yet, the process is almost impossible to have explained. And even then it's not clear. We've been told...
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