House Drama

So after hearing that we had to put down $61,000 in order to build we decided not build and started our house hunt again! Thankfully the owner of that house decided to give us back the 10,000 we put down as a deposit. He did spend the money (we knew he did!!) so he is giving it back in 2,500 dollar increments. However we don't care how we get it at this point.

So one of our family friends is our realtor. My parents love remodeling and flipping houses and have moved close to 20 times since I have been born. No that is not an exaggeration...that is why our realtor is now a family friend. She has helped them many times. Growing up the longest we every stayed in one house was 6 years. I think they have been in there house now that long and my dad is already getting the itch to move again!! Anyways we called Kay and she was really excited to help.

Long story short we looked for a couple of weeks and on my birthday found a house we wanted to put an offer on. We loved it but it did need some work. The only things we did not love was that it was on a busy street, had a laundry closet not a room and did not have a pantry in the kitchen. We decided we would probably not find everything we wanted in our price range and overall really did love the house. So we gave her our verbal offer and she was going to get the paper work ready to do later. We had my bday dinner and the house had been on the market almost a year so we were not to worried. Boy were we wrong. My dad walked into my birthday dinner a few hours later. (I though something had happened to wade and almost panicked when I saw dad) He felt bad interrupting but said Kay has been trying to call us because they have another offer on the house. You have got to be kidding me. That house has sat empty for almost 300 days and today they get two offers. Before we could tell her to go in at full price (it was priced so cheap for this area) she called back and said they just accepted the other offer. We were pretty disappointed but we decided it must not have been the house for us. It helped having all our great friends around to cheer us up. Fast forward almost two weeks and now we are really happy it worked the way it did.