Well, I guess I jumped the gun a bit. Seems we did NOT sell the house. The buyers hired a pit bull home inspector, known by some realtors as “The Annihilator” to do the home inspection. They nitpicked everything to death and came up with quite a list. Some of the things he picked on were not even code back when we built our house.
The buyers didn’t seem to get too rattled by the report, except for what appeared to be some water damage around the windows in the family room. We told them we would fix whatever seemed to be the cause and all would be fine, but they just decided not to continue. So that’s the end of them, I guess.
Truthfully, I am not too upset about it. I really wasn’t looking forward to the packing and such, and I felt like we would have been really rushed to get all packed and moved in the time these buyers were giving us. You see, until we got a final signed contract that they were in, I didn’t want to pack just in case. Turns out, it’s a good thing I didn’t.
Plus, I really didn’t want to see these people get MY house. It’s way too big for 2 people. It’s a family house and I wanted to see a family get it. Not that I have any control over who ultimately buys it, but still…
So here we are, no sale, our other house already begun, consoling ourselves that maybe it was just not the time to move, but wondering what we should do with the new construction. Take it as far as we could on existing funds? Finish up the basement and then seal it up for the winter until next spring and the sale (hopefully) of this house? What to do, what to do?
Then the miraculous happened: We got a call from our other realtor, the one listing our 5.25 acres in West Mountain. She has an offer on the land, almost full price, cash. Whoo-hoo! An answer to our dilemna! Now we have the money to build the house at least up until the closed in phase: Walls, roof, doors, windows, stonework and stucco. When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window. Memo to self: He’s in charge; let Him handle things.
So the move is off for now (Hallelujah!) but we can move forward on the house. I was looking forward to getting down there and being closer to Dad and Mom and getting to know our new neighbors, but that’ll just have to be postponed for several months. I’m sure as the months progress, we will understand better why this move wasn’t supposed to happen now. For right now, I can handle that.
