Word of the day “sh*t.
The excitement and anticipation of seeing our home, in person….was beyond. Beyond what I can even describe. The emotions started when we were allowed to enter the gate area at JFK (for Alitalia) started things. We had already had our “negative covid” results prior to our departure-48 hours. We got those at our local cvs clinic. Just the rapid was required. Those were shown at the ticket counter for Alitalia along with all our house documents. I had everything in a neat and tidy pile, paperclipped….1 set of Italian copies (sent from the Attorney’s office) and 1 set of English copies (The Attorney’s office always translated our documents for us). I wanted things easy, organized and ready to show, to whoever needed to see whatever they needed to see. I do recall the agent taking our packet, saying “I need to go show my manager” to which Mike and I just gave each other that ….Oh shit look. She came back after just a few minutes saying “You are all set, and you’re very organized”.
Upon landing in Rome, we immediately were rapid tested once again. Literally upon walking off the plane. Our entire flight followed through the que line to the testing location. Once that was done and completed with our 2nd “negative covid” results, off to immigration we went. Again, almost the same questions were asked:
Why are you coming to Italy?
We replied that we had just purchased a home and received the deed on 1/28/2021 but we had further “business” to conduct. We were meeting the agent to exchange keys and receive the official deed.
Do you have a return flight?
We said yes. We provided our return flight information to USA.
We were asked if we had the documents of the purchase?
As I did with the agent at JFK, I showed the polizia the same documents (the italian copies) I had everything in order; the offer, the formal offer & our codice fiscales. We did NOT have our deed yet in hand. We were also told by the Attorney’s office, the Notary doesn’t issue an email copy. That our formal offer would be what we would show to immigration.
That was it! Off to the rental car and then finally after a very long few months…we would meet the agent at our piazza!! The emotions just were building. If you recall me telling you our Attorney’s office was I believe 4 hours from our village. We handled everything here in the USA via email. I had reached out to Linda at our Attorney’s office asking instead of them mailing us the keys here in the USA, could the agent meet us. Less to worry about mailing keys. We also knew we were going soon, and didn’t want to end up missing keys in the mail. I also figured she could/would give us the 411 crash course of the house. You know, like here in America. The agent would give you their time and show you the house in detail. Possibly explain things if you didn’t quite know something. Imagine your purchases here in the past, you had questions right? And you both spoke the same language I would assume. Not so much our experience. We knew she spoke NO English…but we didn’t expect her to be so rushed, abrasive, almost rude & borderline annoyed with our questions. I recall telling Mike (who is NOT good with the camera, or documenting things) I said can you try to take a video of my reaction. I wanted to replay it and recall that moment when I was just stunned, amazed and overwhelmed with what we were just going through. I honestly don’t even remember Mike taking this video. I think I was scrolling through his phone a few days later and found it. If my phone wasn’t working or downloading, or I was trying to multitask- you know use google translate while taking pictures…I’d grab his phone. I laughed when I watched this for the first time. It will make you dizzy…so get ready! But, I think you’ll get the point of how rushed Nicoletta truly was.
*Update:
I know, I‘m sorry… but notice ALL the sh*t they left. You know when you say a picture just doesn’t do it justice. Truer words have not been spoken.
1-The actual bar of soap they last used on the bathroom sink.
2- Their green spongy thing on the sink.
3-A bug zapper in the kitchen. With bugs in it.
4- A red scarf in the kitchen draped over a small tv.
5- Little “chachkies” everywhere…like everywhere (aka little shitty things).
6-Random photos of everything. From a beautiful Blessed Mother to Grampa strolling, to soccer superstars to the naked ladies arse… she ended up in the bathroom LOL. 7- 27 kitchen chairs…….Mike “times 4, I repeat 4 seat cushions per chair.” lmao. True story.
8- 7 brooms.
9- a big orange bucket with 5 umbrellas.
10- the broken hibachi grill.
11- 8 media/kitchen/miscellaneous cabinet things… each filled with you guessed it… more sh*t.
12- The 60’s stove/oven/propane death trap.
13-Did you see the kitchen towel still hanging on the railing out the window.
14. Someone’s hair brush.
15. An unused hopefully diabetic needle in the medicine cabinet.
16. The rock hard sugar still in the kitchen canisters.
You get my point. The home was not cleaned out. At all. The list goes on, just zoom in. It’s just a shame they didn’t come “clean up & out”. PLEASE, if you are in the process of purchasing and the sellers are “leaving the home furnished”, please confirm they are leaving only furniture. Not a bunch of shit behind. You don’t even understand how hard it is to get rid of it. There are no dumpsters to just throw crap out in. Most of the crap we bagged up, threw out where we could. Bagged up more & donated. At the top of our street leaving the village, there is a donation yellow drop box (for clothes). We did however nicely and neatly leave random things outside and people did take them. The junk furniture pieces either got burned in the fireplace (if they were wood) or are up on the 3rd floor hiding behind a curtain. All those kitchen cabinets, storage cabinets etc, extra chairs & more are hiding upstairs.
I do remember taking a video to send to the kids. And the kids only. But, I feel we’re all friends here:) So you’re getting exclusive coverage LOL. Don’t mind my language. I refer to all the crap… like all the crap they left as shit. It was a lot of shit. They left so much shit behind. I knew once it was all gone, and you could see the details of them house, it would look amazing.
How many times can one say shit in 1 video? Asking for a friend.
I hope you all have a fantastic day!! Ciao friends ☺️.
