Our House Drama

Okay, so I thought I'd fill everyone in on what's going on with us and our quest (and I mean quest) for a house. It's been filled with lots of drama recently!! So it all started back on April 3rd when we signed the contract on a townhouse. They gave us a closing date of September 28Th and we weren't sure we wanted to wait that long, but we loved the townhouse (especially after putting all our touches and upgrades into it) and were anxiously awaiting September. Well, September is pretty much here and that picture of our dirt that I posted back in April, well, it looks the same! Still no progress on the part of the DUMB builder!! Needless to say, we are NOT happy, not one bit!

So last week we decided to look into trying to get our money back on the townhouse and we started looking at other places out in Eagle Mountain with our realtor. (We have a real estate lawyer and are trying to decide what our next step will be about getting our money back.) With the way the real estate market has been lately, we have found that we can get even more for our money now than was possible back in April. So after a few days of searching, we found a house in one of the nicest sections of the Ranches (a HUGE section of Eagle Mountain) called Highlands on the Green! We love it and put an offer in on it the very next day! Well, apparently other people liked it too because there were 3 offers on it!!! (We were offer #2) This started a little competition and the sellers asked everyone to submit their best offers. Brian came up with a plan to resubmit our original offer but put an addendum onto it that says we are willing to beat the best offer by $1000. We are hoping this will work to our advantage!

So as of now, the 1st offer has dropped out and it's just two of us left competing for this house! Traci, our realtor, hand delivered our 2nd offer to the sellers and their agent tonight and hopefully they have decided to let us see the other offer and decide if we want/can beat it. She talked with them for almost 30 minutes and told them all about us and how much we loved their house! Hopefully she kissed up enough!!

So everyone...stay tuned! Keep your fingers crossed for us and hopefully tomorrow we'll have good news!!!