Silence...

So the hunt for a new home has gone every which way of wrong.  

We had an accepted offer on home number two but after trying to secure insurance I was not comfortable with all the numbers.  I contacted my realtor and asked to get out of the deal.  

There were the expected stalling tactics by both realtors involved in attempts to "save the deal" but in the end I could get out now or wait until the inspection either way I was determined to get out!

As it so happens we have been told the seller is unable to sign the cancellation paperwork as they are out of town and this being a holiday weekend it may well she until next week before we get the required signature to escape this deal.

Yes, I have a home lined up to make a bid.  The new home meets the wish list I first made and even though it has some flaws I think we can make it work.  Also, the cost is less and we can afford to rehab the home any way we desire.

Not my dream home but at least I will be able to sleep at night.  That is if we are allowed to make an offer.

If the home is unavailable when we finally are free to offer a contract - no worries - we will begin again!

Okay...

Tuesday, we made the appointment with the realtor to make an offer on option C.  However, I decided to make one last counter for the round home.  The offer was only 5k more than the last one I made.  We wrote up the offer for home C and the plan was the realtor would call about the round house and get a verbal one way or the other and if the answer was no then the offer would be presented to option C!

We received a text about two hours later that the offer had been accepted!  So, I guess we are back on for the round house.

Now I just have to wrap my head around the new and much higher mortgage!

On and on...

I am beginning to believe people here don't really want to sell their homes!

We made a bid and the seller made a counter!  We then countered their counter and waited and waited.  I got fed up and wrote my realtor to express a desire to make an offer on another home.

We waited hours for a response from our realtor.  We thing she was working to save the bid on the current deal, but at this point we really don't care.

I have an appointment tomorrow afternoon to make an offer on the next home!  The we get a text the other seller will make a counter tomorrow!  At this point We don't care!  I am so done playing these games!

We understand this market and know what we are doing.  When we walk away from this home it will sit on the market for more than 6 months and the seller will slash her price again and again.  She won't get what we are offering and she does not understand that!!!!

So we will walk and bid on a different home!

We are not new to this and can walk away from a home we like to take on a home we don't like quite so much!

Square One...

The first home we bid on fell through!  We had a home inspection that revealed a mess of problems and the seller refused to fix any of it.  So we decided to take our party elsewhere!

We placed an offer on home number two yesterday and are waiting for a response/counter offer.

The new home is way different than what we were looking for but the home felt good when standing inside.  It felt like it could be home.  The home needs some updating, a lot of updating but we are up for the task!

The one cool thing about the home is that is has an atrium with a domed roof and skylights!

I no longer get my hopes up when going through the home buying process it will either work out or not.  I would rather find a home that fits or wait until one does.

We will see what happens!

Here we go again...

We found a home and made an offer.  It went back and forth several times and we finally came to an agreement!

Then came the inspection and they found so many things wrong!  We requested the seller make repairs and all shit went crazy!

Bottom line!  The seller did not want to fix squat and we did not want to spend money fixing their shit!  So it fell through!

Now we start the process again😂

Endless...

I feel like I am on the hamster wheel!  I wake up and do the same thing every day even though I don't want to...

A little more than three weeks until we close on our home!

Lyfe..

Finally beginning a routine now that work has begun.  

Still living in the hotel an living day by day.  Our expected close date is in the first week of June!