Today's mailbox find

We got TWO official house-related letters. Both important and both signifying that we soon have to cough up a lot of money to buy our building lot.
The first letter came from the town. We were waiting for this letter, although it makes me annoyed. Before you purchase a piece of land here for building purposes, you need to clear it with the town that they do not have any earlier claims put a the land to build on it, you know, like putting up a pool or building a school on your land. It makes sense, but this late in the game, makes little sense for us. First of all, this should have been done in February, when we put through the application for the building permit. The building permit application listed exactly where the house was going to be built. Since our town is so big (HA!), this goes through the same person anyway. Second, our building lot is a part of a much larger piece of land that belonged to an old couple. They died, their property went up for sale, and two people bought the land, and broke it up into 8 building lots. HELLO, the town would have stopped the purchase two years ago had this been an issue. Oh well, we got the negative letter today. One of the first times in my life that a negative is a good thing.
The second letter we received was from another notary public. This, notary public, unlike the one we spent over an hour with, is responsible for making changes to the land title registry. Oy! So, not only did we receive a notification that there will be a change to the land title registry, but, came along with a lovely 118 Euro bill as well. Sheesh!
Now that these two letters are in our possession, we are now waiting for a letter from the first notary public, who will give us the green light, and set in motion the 10 days we have to pay for the very, not cheap land!
Exciting and nerve wracking all at once. If we don't come out of this experience with ulcers then I'll know that Joern and I are strong people!