The House Saga -- Day 110

Well, its been awhile since I posted about the house saga. It was just stressing me out so I took a mental vacation from worrying about it for awhile.

On the Monday before Thanksgiving (4 days AFTER our last contract was supposed to CLOSE!) we still had not received an answer on said contract (if you're counting that was contract number THREE). So we issued an ultimatum. Either we get an answer by Wednesday or you no longer have an offer. We heard nothing. Then suddenly on Monday of THIS week we get a phone call...They want to check out the repairs we requested...They didn't think the house was in that bad a shape. ARGGH! So we made a counter request...We want to see the house again. We've not been into the house since September. At least one of the repairs we requested (removal of a dead tree) has been done but we don't know what if anything has been done to the interior or the back of the home.

So today at two we go back into the house. Hopefully we will be able to get from the homeowner, the name of the mortgage company and Diane (our buyers agent) will be able to work on them...Since Lee (the listing agent) seems not to care that we are being jerked around for WEEKS at a time with no answer and that with an open offer still out there we can't realistically move on other properties until THIS ONE is resolved. Also, I need to see if I've built this house up in my mind into something it is not and do I still want it.

This has been such a pain in the rear! If I didn't feel so STRONGLY that this is MY HOUSE it would have been over a long time ago. But it is the only house in the price range we want to spend that has the square footage we are looking for in the area we want. There is nothing else out there that compares. Even in the shape its in. So we plod on. Hopefully we'll have an answer soon.

T