You're doing What?
Dec. 30th, 2015 , my wife and I, accompanied by her brother Mark and sister Carol, labored up a steep flight of narrow stairs to a 2nd floor office above the hardware store in Shawnee, KS. Our footsteps thudded up the worn gray carpet and, turning right at the top, we entered the small, dark, second-floor lawyer's office that could have been the set of a 1950's film noir movie.
A couple of hours and a lifetime of angst later, the world we now know as "Blandings" came to fruition with the signing of a few legal documents and the unspoken, mutual looks of "what the #$@% are we doing?"
Nevertheless, we had forged ahead, communicating our intent to our new legal adviser of creating an LLC for buying and building a home on a property nearby.
Rewind a few days prior. What felt like impulsiveness at the time, had actually been the culmination of months of discussion and research, and looking at countless properties. The property we were most interested in had had a recent, drastic reduction in price and the race was on to get a bid in as quickly as possible. No big deal. Except that it was
Dec. 30th. No big deal right? Locate a lawyer willing to work on Dec 30th, find a bank actually open on New Year's Eve, hope the realtor was available to process our offer and hope we weren't beat to the line.
The next days were a blur of running from one bank to another, getting finances in order, filling out archaic and confusing real estate documents, fax this, sign that, what's this disclosure mean, what's an "as is" property and again "what the #$@% are we doing?" 
After much gnashing of teeth, we managed to make an offer on the property on New Year's Eve 2015. But there was a catch....... There always is, isn't there?
