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I am getting the feeling that the owners were not working in good faith. Whether they decided not to sell, believe (or actually do) have a better offer, or simply cannot believe the financial situation they are in and the loss of value (perhaps complete loss of all they money they put into the house and used as a down?) and so are going to make it as hard on a buyer as they can, I don't know. But they are not even trying and I feel, now, as if they never really did.
They are going through the motions to make it look like they are selling, but they really are not doing so. Whether that is just about me, whether it would be that way with anyone, I do not know. I am positive that this deal was dead before it started. Maybe I am wrong, but... Having met the owners, I felt as if... something was up. I felt like there was something going on behind the scenes. I could be wrong, I am not without paranoia, still... I got a nagging feeling and it will not go.
I am becoming more and more sure that the deal is dead. I think it started out dead, but whatever. The only left is for the doctor to a final bureaucratic check and then call for the boys at the morgue. And yet, who knows. Perhaps the owners are being forced out by financial and familial situations that make the whole thing simply hard to swallow. It can be difficult to deal openly or nicely when one feels cornered. A buyer to a house they love would, in some small way at least, perhaps seem to be a part of the crowd which cornered them. The economy, perhaps bad (or even good but failed) financial and or business plans, changing family situation(s), and... everyone can seem the enemy. Then pile on the V.A., a seeming slaggard, a pile of paperwork, and the meanness of the real markets. Still, even with that, I sense the deal was never intended to be completed.
So be it, but I am stuck between places until "the doctor" makes the call. It is not my favorite of "places", but it is one which is familiar. At least I am not the one holding a house in a dead market. If I do find a place to rent, it is going to have to allow for a cat. I will get a cat, one way or the other. My one concession to my needs, I think. Stupid cats... women... people! Bah! :P
I vote for cats.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry this isn't looking good after all :-(
I gotta have some loving, and cats do that about as often as I need it, or more precisely, as often as I remember I need it (which is hit and miss and on the rarer side). They do their own thing, as do I.
ReplyDeleteNo worries, though dropping that much money on the deal stinks. I am just glad I didn't get caught up in two or three houses or something. Whatever happens, no one can say I did not try. Heck, I am still trying.
Here I believe it is that the buyer doesn't have to buy but the seller has to sell. That is if a contract has been signed. Good luck to you.
ReplyDeleteOh... that might be the problem. They are waiting for me to quit. They might have more than a simple financial obligation to pay back the $500 earnest money, but be somehow more obligated. Or, they simply do not want to pay the $500 back and are trying to get me to simply walk? I don't know.
ReplyDeleteThen again, I can be a bit hair-trigger jumpy, in a paranoid way (not violent, just overly suspicious). Uhrm, who are you looking at? :p