So You Thought We'd End Up with more than One House, eh?

Several people expressed some concern that we were going to end up with multiple houses. No worries, we fully expected the sellers to counter offer on both houses and at that point we could walk away if we wanted.  If either offer had been accepted we could still walk away on inspection.  With a short sale offer in limbo with the banks for over a year what did we have to lose?

In the end, we had 1  offer pending and 2 on the table.  As of this evening we have 1  (still) pending offer and that is it.  Offer number one from Friday was a big NO from the outset. The sellers need their asking price or they would be forced to apply for a short sale.  As for the second offer, we have not heard back from them (as of this moment, 7:34pm) and response was required by today. Not a big deal really as we didn't like the second house as much as the one we've been waiting for all this time.

So where do we go from here?  Well, we wait some more. Speculation is that we will hear back from the bank this week. Our short sale extension expires this week (this is just a monthly extension of the original offer). We are hoping that we hear this week, it would be nice to have some conclusion to this deal. 

On a separate note, I checked in with House Hunters today to see if they found a family for the special episode they were doing. Unfortunately for us, they did find another family. Sniff, the kids were disappointed. But as a consolation they said to let them know when we have a closing date as we may be able to participate in a regular episode.  If we never get to be on the show at least we got to experience the audition process.

So keep your fingers crossed and maybe, just maybe I'll have something exciting to write about later this week.