This could be really ugly when the sun comes out...
My insurance company sends me too much snail mail, and so does my mortgage company. Since I’ve got my payment going out automatically, I don’t need to see the monthly statements, or pay attention to the equity loan offers and refinancing deals.
I make several different piles when I go through my mail:
Bill — set aside to pay.
Statement — set aside to reconcile.
Junk — straight to trash.
Other junk — to be shredded
Other stuff — worry about later.
The envelope from the mortgage company was going into the last pile, but since it was a pretty slow mail day, I went ahead and opened it.
Holy Canoly, there was a check for $200 in it! Seems my escrow account has gotten larger than it needs to be (the bad news is this has happened because my taxes have no doubt gone down because the value of my townhouse has gone down), and they are going to be lowering my monthly payments, and they sent me the overage.
Woohoo. Found money!
Grateful for small favors
And I wasn’t under this when it fell from my neighbor’s roof:
Yeah.. I’m putting this in the “It was a good week” column.
I’ve spent my time this week running at the rec center, and walking indoors at Dulles Town Center, where I’ve been enjoying watching some Police K-9 teams training some dogs in the food court in the mornings.
(At least I hope it is a training exercise! )
Weekend Runs:
The parking lot of Dulles Town Center has some mighty huge MOUNTAINS of snow piled here and there within the lot, but for the most part, the perimeter is clean. I’ve run around the perimeter in the past before the mall is open and it works reasonably well. It’s about 1.4 miles in circumference, and it’s not completely flat. I might head out there Sunday morning.
If anyone else is interested, let me know.