Closed this afternoon.
Between this and dealing with My First Auto Insurance Claim, I’m adulting the hell out of this year.
Tomorrow, I buy paint and paint the kitchen: the other areas I’m ok with painting after I move in, but the kitchen just feels small and dark with the paint that’s in there. I think a lovely yellow with white trim (and eventually, perhaps this weekend, I’ll paint the cabinets that are in there. They’re the original 1963 ones, and they add to the darkness of the kitchen).
Congratulations on owning your own home! Now make a list of painters, electricians, carpenters etc.
Congrats. Remember, check with the HOA before doing too much. In my state you only own the living space inside the building, and the HOA owns from the interior paint outward. Which is actually good, it means they have the burden of repairing much of the expensive stuff.
Are we invited to your party? I’ll bring beer and White Castles!
Sure! Only we’re a Krystal town here in Atlanta. Those White Castle abominations shall not be seen. 
Yes. Condos were leading over houses because of much of that, but what pushed it over the edge was the not needing to do yard work. A few weeks ago I had to help my brother with his yard because he got a notice from the city. Yep, unpleasant, so I’d have to pay someone to do that.
I am on the hunt for a handyman type person to do a few things as I move in, so they’re done: each of them is fairly minor, but they’re things that with needing to get out of the apartment, clean it, and get settled in, I don’t have time to do right now.
The one thing cosmetic I was determined to do before move-in was paint the kitchen: I thought it just looked oldish. I started washing the walls before painting and it.was.gross. I think the renters who’d been in the unit before this did a lot of cooking of things that produced greasy smoke and never wiped down a wall. Luckily, it was just in the kitchen. And it’s clean and painted now, and I replaced the nasty horizontal blinds in there too.
The other rooms I’ll paint over time, because the colors are not great. 
hey, good for you 
Oh, fun to make a new place into a home that suits you.
Congrats, Lsura!
Seconded! (Damn, I was hoping to be the one to post that link!)
Until this thread, I had never heard that Weird Al song.