The house drama continues..

We put in for the repairs to be done by the owner on the house we have an offer on now. According to our realtor, who spoke to his realtor.. the owner plans to do all repairs. Seems to me that was a pretty extensive list to just take on with no counter offer. HOWEVER, if he is game.. more power to him. I want to close on this house and GET IT DONE AND OVER WITH. This has been 3 months of the most stress I have ever experienced in my life.

In the midst of it all, I had major surgery too.. which thankfully went well.

Let's recap for anyone just tuning in:

House #1. Beginning of April 2008.. saw a house for sale on our same street that we rent on now and LOVED it. Put in an offer.. VOILA! ACCEPTED in a day. Approved for financing. Everything is a go. Inspections are done and PAID FOR BY US. Closing date set for May 21. Fabulous. Our lease goes through the end of July.. gives us ample time to move and do any painting and other things before we move in. Convenient move as well, seeing that it is on the same street! Fast forward to the MORNING WE ARE SUPPOSED TO CLOSE. The realtor calls us, just short of completely hysterical. The house is a short sale, and the short sale company she was working with was somehow basically breaking the law with this type of fast transaction. The title for a house should be held for 90 days before selling.. they held it for less than 30. No way we can close this day. I never had a chance to be mad or upset.. the realtor was freaking out.

We wait around. There is basically nothing that can be done. Fine, we accept it and move on.

It was April 23rd that I had duodenal switch surgery.. recovery went well, and I am feeling 100% normal now. Thankfully, I had no issues; and we were able to continue our house hunt when we had to.

House #2. The realtor basically told us to find something that we wanted to look at and then she would help us. Ok. We did. It was crap. She ended up giving us a few homes that were not short sales and would potentially pass FHA inspection to look at. We did, and we found yet another house that would be perfect for us. Enough bedrooms, central air, family room, more than 1 bathroom, and in a great neighborhood. We put in an offer on it that day.

We wait. And wait. And wait. Days and days. Despite asking for a response in 48 hours, we wait almost a week to hear anything. Finally, we hear that they accept the offer! Awesome. We are excited yet again. Our realtor finally talks to the seller's realtor.. yeah.. the house won't pass FHA. The foundation is crumbling under the crawl space. The selling realtor knows this, and she doesn't want to waste her time. Thank goodness.. we would have paid for ANOTHER round of inspections only to lose over $1000 again. Fine. Moving on.

House #3. We never even get to the point of offering on this one. We liked it, but we did not love it. We were going to give it a go.. until we had a termite inspection done. Yeah.. infested. INFESTED. Termites and carpenter ants. Again, moving on.

House #4. This is a house our realtor found. We are getting supremely discouraged at this point. The day we went to see this house, I actually spoke to and saw the realtor. She was going to do an open house on the first house we offered on and loved. Irony. Gotta love it. Anywho, she tells me about this house. The 4th house. It's not in the best of neighborhoods, but is at a cul-de-sac and really is not that bad. My husband got there before me and had seen the whole thing before I arrived. I was like "so, what do you think?" He says.. "eh, it's okay." UGH. Great. Another lemon. HAHA. NOPE. IT WAS AWESOME. He was kidding. It was completely redone inside. New everything.. carpet, appliances, walls, finished basement, 2 new bathrooms.. the possibility of 6 bedrooms in total. I was totally wowed. It was the best one by far that we had seen. I went.. again, ironically, to meet the realtor at the open house of our first house we offered on to put an offer in on this house that very afternoon. Again, we wait.

We finally hear from them. They want us to apply for some city grant thing that takes like 6 months to get processed and all so they can get more money out of the sale. AUGH ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Fine. We keep looking, yet again.

These are not the only houses we looked at. For every house we liked, there were 10+ that we hated or didn't work for us. I bet we have seen no less than 100 houses in the past 3 months. I wish I was exaggerating.

We went out and looked at probably 10 houses in 1 day. We finally found one that we liked in the northwest part of the city.. new for us since we have always lived in the southwest area. The neighborhood is decent, the house is all redone.. we put in an offer and finally things seem to be working out.. SEEM to be.. so far. We have a closing date set for July 1st at 10am. When I told my mom about it, she reminded me that it was the day of my wedding anniversary. OOPS. I forgot. With all of the commotion.. I totally didn't even put it together. Maybe it's a sign, right? Let's hope.