House hunt update

The waiting...Day 14

We have offered, been rejected and counter offered and now we are playing a waiting game. 14 days have passed since we wrote the contract on the house and we are no closer than we were the last time I wrote here. I only THOUGHT that I had a headache then.

This house is everything I could want...except ready to move into...it needs SO much work. There is a crack in the wall of the second bedroom that is wide enough to put my hand in. It needs a shower enclosure in the guest bath and new fixtures in the main bath. It needs new glass in the back door and a tree removed after the storm that blew through here in July. Extensive landscaping work and new vinyl siding is also needed but lower on my priority list than the rest.

Yet with all this, the mortgage company that holds the key to getting the house refuses to budge on the price. The location is wonderful, the layout is great, the closets are to die for and I can see the fireplace at the holidays. But will any of this come to fruition? The answer to that is in the hands of some inept mortgage lender on the left coast that doesn't return her phone calls or answer her e-mails in anything resembling a timely manner. Last week we thought that was a good thing...right up until they rejected our first offer after 7 days of leaving us hanging. Now we are 7 MORE days into the process and awaiting word on our counter offer...I must admit I don't have high hopes for the desired answer and my mind has already moved ahead to do we make yet another counter offer or do we cut our losses and walk away.

I hate house hunting. Passionately.