Mister Disney
Ludwig Von Drake of Disney Fine Dining
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- Mar 16, 2005
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Where do I start?
This will be lengthy, so get your reading glasses out if you are going to stay with me to the end!
I need to apologize to my friends here on the DIS Board for being out of contact and offline for the past 3 months.
I hosted "Nosh Around the World" during the F&W Festival for an incredible group of people, but dropped the ball after returning from meeting so many incredible folks from the DIS Board and a super mini-vacation.
Although there is no excuse for being a slouch to you all, I will offer the following "excuses" in hopes of gaining forgiveness and acceptance back from my compadres here on the DIS.
Right after returning from our trip in October my computer crashed and I lost all of my photos from that trip, including "Nosh Around the World". I know, I know .why didn't you have your system backed up? No excuse, but now I do and will try to make sure I do it in a timely and regular fashion in the future. If you joined me on "Nosh Around the World" and have photos, could you please send them to me?
Following the computer crash, I have had one of the most depressing, exhilarating, over whelming, exciting, happiest, saddest and glorious times of my life.
I have been involved in selling my old house and buying a new house.
To start, I have (had) lived in Meriden, CT for 15 years and decided it was time to put our property up for sale right prior to the end of October, as a matter of fact right before leaving for Disney the last time. It is an unusual piece of property and we didn't expect that it would sell very quickly. I presumed it would be on the market for 6 months to a year. How wrong was I?!?!? We had a written offer to buy within 2 weeks of listing the house! We were going to need to move within 60 days!
Guess what? We had not even start looking for a new home! Off to the MLS listings we went and looked at a few houses and settled on a nice little Arts and Crafts Style House from the 20s on a huge piece of property. We put in an offer and waited. And waited. And waited. Finally, the sellers came back to us to say they would accept our offer. In the mean time we had found some other houses we wanted to look at and although we were down to 45 days till we had to move, we told them our offer was no longer valid.
Off to tramp through a few more houses we go. The following weekend, we found our home. A 1912 Neo-Dutch Colonial in a historic district. Our home has (had) been owned by the same family for almost 40 years. Although it sits on a very small piece of property, it has a huge entertaining style first floor, with a foyer, formal living room and dining room.
The home had been on the market for almost 6 months when we saw it and the price had just been reduced. We felt that the new asking price was reasonable so we made a written offer immediately for the asking price. 2 days later, we get the dreaded phone call. 2 other buyers had surfaced and if we wanted the house, we'd be in a "bidding war". We finally succeeded and our offer was accepted and we could move into the new home before our time in our old house was up!
The bomb now drops, our old house's sale gets unstable and it looks like the sale is not going to happen! We find what we feel is the home we'll live in for the rest of our lives and now see it fading away because our old house wasn't going to sell. The date for closing on the old house comes and goes with a new date set. When the second closing date comes, it got postponed again to the following day. At this point, our back out date on our new home had approached. What were we to do?
We decided that regardless of our old home selling, we would proceed with buying our new home. Broadview Manor!
To make a long story longer .our old house sold, and we closed on our new home on December 15th. 10 days before Christmas! Mister Disney, who is also known as Mister Christmas as Kevin and I play Santa Claus and his merry Elf for poor children during the Holiday Season., was now OVER WHELMED! We had 15 days to pack up our old house and move into the new house, 18 families to visit as Santa Claus.
The move happened, wonderful children were visited by Santa and his merry Elf and Christmas came to Broadview Manor (albeit a little modified, instead of a Christmas Tree, we had a single wreath on our new home).
The month of January came and we began unpacking into our new home and finally feeling like the Nightmare Before Christmas was over, life is returning to some semblance of a "new normal" and here I am, Mister Disney back on the DIS with his friends and planning my next Disney Adventure!
Hopefully, my fellow DISers will welcome me back.
This will be lengthy, so get your reading glasses out if you are going to stay with me to the end!
I need to apologize to my friends here on the DIS Board for being out of contact and offline for the past 3 months.
I hosted "Nosh Around the World" during the F&W Festival for an incredible group of people, but dropped the ball after returning from meeting so many incredible folks from the DIS Board and a super mini-vacation.
Although there is no excuse for being a slouch to you all, I will offer the following "excuses" in hopes of gaining forgiveness and acceptance back from my compadres here on the DIS.
Right after returning from our trip in October my computer crashed and I lost all of my photos from that trip, including "Nosh Around the World". I know, I know .why didn't you have your system backed up? No excuse, but now I do and will try to make sure I do it in a timely and regular fashion in the future. If you joined me on "Nosh Around the World" and have photos, could you please send them to me?
Following the computer crash, I have had one of the most depressing, exhilarating, over whelming, exciting, happiest, saddest and glorious times of my life.
I have been involved in selling my old house and buying a new house.
To start, I have (had) lived in Meriden, CT for 15 years and decided it was time to put our property up for sale right prior to the end of October, as a matter of fact right before leaving for Disney the last time. It is an unusual piece of property and we didn't expect that it would sell very quickly. I presumed it would be on the market for 6 months to a year. How wrong was I?!?!? We had a written offer to buy within 2 weeks of listing the house! We were going to need to move within 60 days!
Guess what? We had not even start looking for a new home! Off to the MLS listings we went and looked at a few houses and settled on a nice little Arts and Crafts Style House from the 20s on a huge piece of property. We put in an offer and waited. And waited. And waited. Finally, the sellers came back to us to say they would accept our offer. In the mean time we had found some other houses we wanted to look at and although we were down to 45 days till we had to move, we told them our offer was no longer valid.
Off to tramp through a few more houses we go. The following weekend, we found our home. A 1912 Neo-Dutch Colonial in a historic district. Our home has (had) been owned by the same family for almost 40 years. Although it sits on a very small piece of property, it has a huge entertaining style first floor, with a foyer, formal living room and dining room.
The home had been on the market for almost 6 months when we saw it and the price had just been reduced. We felt that the new asking price was reasonable so we made a written offer immediately for the asking price. 2 days later, we get the dreaded phone call. 2 other buyers had surfaced and if we wanted the house, we'd be in a "bidding war". We finally succeeded and our offer was accepted and we could move into the new home before our time in our old house was up!
The bomb now drops, our old house's sale gets unstable and it looks like the sale is not going to happen! We find what we feel is the home we'll live in for the rest of our lives and now see it fading away because our old house wasn't going to sell. The date for closing on the old house comes and goes with a new date set. When the second closing date comes, it got postponed again to the following day. At this point, our back out date on our new home had approached. What were we to do?
We decided that regardless of our old home selling, we would proceed with buying our new home. Broadview Manor!
To make a long story longer .our old house sold, and we closed on our new home on December 15th. 10 days before Christmas! Mister Disney, who is also known as Mister Christmas as Kevin and I play Santa Claus and his merry Elf for poor children during the Holiday Season., was now OVER WHELMED! We had 15 days to pack up our old house and move into the new house, 18 families to visit as Santa Claus.
The move happened, wonderful children were visited by Santa and his merry Elf and Christmas came to Broadview Manor (albeit a little modified, instead of a Christmas Tree, we had a single wreath on our new home).
The month of January came and we began unpacking into our new home and finally feeling like the Nightmare Before Christmas was over, life is returning to some semblance of a "new normal" and here I am, Mister Disney back on the DIS with his friends and planning my next Disney Adventure!
Hopefully, my fellow DISers will welcome me back.
The house is gorgeous!
by the homebuying/homeselling experience. Hope to see you around the DIS and at WDW again sometime!
(notice the name of our June trip to WDW...lol). I love the new house...bet the inside is gorgeous! And a big 
to Santa and his merry elf...that is a great thing to do for the kids!
