“In the original email you missed the contract! Please sign.”
By then I had already sent the money.
The verbal Rockaway offer had spent two weeks becoming a real purchase. I checked on the agreement, answered lender questions, and waited while the lawyers worked through the final documents.
The packet arrived at 1:39 in the afternoon. It included the contract, riders, and lead-paint disclosure.
At 1:40 I asked for the wire instructions.
At 1:56 I sent back the executed documents and said the wire would go out within the hour.
At 3:17 I said it had been sent and asked for confirmation. The receipt came back. Everything looked set.
Then, shortly after 11 that night, the lawyer asked me to sign one more attachment.
“Here you go,” I wrote eleven minutes later.
The next morning he found the bigger problem. I had signed the riders and the other forms. I had wired the deposit. I had somehow skipped the actual purchase contract in the original email.
“Ha! not sure how I missed that.”
There were enough files to make the mistake possible. My Drive from that afternoon had a contract marked Final Version 2, a rider marked Final Version 4, the lead-paint form, and the wire instructions. It was still a fairly impressive thing to miss.
The rest of the camera roll from that night is bike work. One photo shows a long split opening in a tire. Another shows the same wheel from a slightly different angle. I had a contract packet open, a damaged tire in my hand, and the normal Wahoo work still moving around both of them.
I signed the missing page and sent it back. The fully executed purchaser documents went out after that, and the title report, loan, and condo-board work could start.
The beach-research weekend was now an actual purchase. I had managed to sign almost everything.