I am still amazed with the utter inconsistency of required documentation when trying to distribute an estate. It has ranged from having to have medallion guarantees and affidavits of domicile to, “fax us copies of these two pieces of paper and just tell us where you want the money to go” - kinda crazy and frustrating, because every time you make a phone call, you never know what to expect.
Off to see the painters for final payment & inspection, thank god that’s finished. Now that the abundance of tarps, painting equipment and plastic sheeting are going to be gone, I can get back to getting little things done around there. But at least I’ve got a big thing crossed off the list there.
The markets decided to play very nicely this first full trading week of 2007, thanks to oil dropping and some short covering today in anticipation of the long weekend. Here’s to it being a good omen for the rest of the year. Of course, we’re going right back into another short week, with a boatload of economic news and earnings, so the wheels could easily just fall right off. It’s nice to have the time to be able to actually pay attention to this stuff again.
