Wednesday, February 16, 2011

It's the house, not the town

>We had to make a hard decision this week.

Since the day we put the offer on our house we went back four or five times just to check things out and show off our home to our family. We were so proud and could not wait to get into something bigger, something that we could paint and decorate as we wanted. On the outside there did not seem to be very many fixes we had to make. A few cosmetic things outside, new screens on the windows, painting and decorating. It all seemed easy.

One of the stipulations with the bank was that they would fix some kind of plumbing issue, whatever that was. There was a hole in the ceiling which we assumed was where the issue was. We just had to wait for that to be fixed and then we could get our inspector in. We waited. And we waited. Our inspection objection deadline was quickly approaching and our 10 day allowance to make any objections was nearly gone. We forced an extension which was not too difficult. And we waited some more.

Long story short, there were too many issues outside of an actual inspection, based on our personal inspection many times, that we could not bare financially or logically. For one, the house is on a rather busy street and I would not feel comfortable letting Logan and our future children play alone outside. Anything can happen. So on Saturday, we made the difficult decision to pull out of the contract. It's just not the house for us. We still love the town, though we are going to try to find something closer to where we work. I know THE ONE is out there, just like I knew B was out there for me. We just have to be more picky. It was a great lesson learned and next time we put an offer on a house I know it will be right.

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