The Big Let Down

Now that we've made the decision that we're not putting anymore money or time into the purchase of this particular house we have to deal with the fall out from the abrupt termination of our closing date. 

Imagine having packed for vacation, booked you're time off work,  kids have their homework to do for the next 2.5 weeks and then it comes to a screeching halt. I've put all the clothes away, and the suitcases are put back in storage. What we're left with is the pile of stuff we had in the front room to take with us, sigh, it's a lot  of stuff. We'll put in in better boxes and put it away with the hopes that we find something else. 

Our daughter was so disappointed. In an effort to cheer her up I picked up the first 2 books in the Kingdom Keepers (Ridley Pearson) series. The first is Disney after Dark and the second Disney at Dawn.  She was very excited and it lets her have a little Disney magic! Our son, he's disappointed that we didn't go but he's younger and was probably more upset that he had to go back to school, LOL.

It's been an emotionally draining week.  Even though the possibility that this deal wouldn't go through was always there, once we had a closing date it seemed like a done deal.  There has been some phone calls going around, scrambling on the part of the seller to get this deal done even though we said we're done.  If you can imagine after 15 months, increasing our purchase price and navigating the ups and downs of a short sale, cancelling our travel plans last minute because the seller forgot to mention she owed a large sum of money, someone on the seller's side has the idea that between our Realtor, us and the seller we could share the burden of paying off her debt (her contribution being a few hundred dollars). Nope, I don't think so. Our Realtor didn't even need to ask us our opinion on that one. 

We'll continue to carry on with our unpacking, and ramp up our search for a new property.  I think I'll do some research on some other communities in the next week or so. We already had a short list, but why not take a closer look at them.  Have a great day