Steppin’ off the rollercoaster for a moment

Alrighty……..so we played the game with the owners of the house….They verbally agreed and accepted our offer last night.

We were out early yesterday evening, ran home and printed off all the papers, signed everything, scanned it into the computer and sent it back to the realtor.

We hadn’t heard anything by lunch time today and were feeling a little anxious. Bad Sign, eh?

Earlier this afternoon, we received news that they decided to change their minds. We understand that in BC a verbal agreement is supposed to be good until the paperwork gets signed, but apparently these guys don’t know that.

I know, I know…it’s not “official” until it’s a done deal. I know already….

The thing is…we really wanted the house. I hate saying that. I hate that I’ve lost something that we really wanted over two cruddy thousand dollars…….

They came back to us and said that we altered the deal – which we didn’t – and we even have the paperwork with their signatures on it to prove it, but they are refusing to sign off on the final paperwork and they’ve upped the price by $2000 and the problem is……There is no guaranteeing that they won’t jack us around a bit more before it’s all finalized. AND…..is there are these kinds of issues with them, then who knows what kinds of problems there are with the house that they are not disclosing.

So to explain where we are at……We are angry and upset and disappointed.

We sat out on our deck last night – dreaming about what we would do. We had the rooms laid out and it was going to be amazing. We had talked about the garden and then clothes line and about what we could do with the deck and how we were going to put the mater bedroom down in the rec room that opens off onto the deck with sliding doors and how it was going to be SO TOTALLY AWESOME.

Yah, I’m upset. We thought this was our house.

It’s frustrating. FRUSTRATING, I tell you.

The town home is gorgeous – or at least it has the potential to be gorgeous. I’ve already asked my dad – who owns a flooring company – about the kind of floors that I’d like to have in it, and yet….then I stopped. I don’t want to dream too much. I don’t want to be disappointed. BLURGH! SUCKS! GHAAAAAGH!

So, we’ve got an offer in and we are waiting to hear back about the town home. I’m not upset that we would be living in the town home….it’s nice and big and spacious. I’m just upset at what we lost….the yard, the clothes, the garden, the fence, the climbing tree, the deck….oh the deck…

But, it’ll all work out. I believe that even if I am upset.

Oh well! Now we are off to try to clear our heads from all this garbage. I hope that it works……..

edited to clarify…They came back and said that they would accept our offer, but wanted an additional $2000 that we had set aside to fix the plumbing and to professionally deal with two HUGE trees that have giant branches hanging over both the house and over the neighbors house and that could be a liability if they broke or fell. We feel that if they are willing to dick around over something that we had already decided upon as acceptable then what’s to stop them from dickin’ around before finally signing off on it all.

$2000 crappy dollars we had already gone up $3000 and now they are asking fro an additional $2000….it’s just frustrating.

Author: Patricia Culley

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