Category: House & Home

We went looking at some more townhomes tonight and we found THE PLACE. It’s even better than the last two places we looked at. It is on a cul-de-sac in a very nice, very quiet neighborhood. Built in 1994, it is absolutely gorgeous – 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, and tons of closet space. We fell in love with the master suite with the vaulted ceilings and private bath.

As we were walking through it for a second time, talking about putting in an offer, the listing agent called our agent to let us know the sellers just signed a contract with a buyer and that it was no longer available.

I’d just like to know when this string of bad luck is going to end. I mean, what the hell do we have to do to actually buy a home?!!? Originally I was worried we wouldn’t find anything we liked in our price range, but no, that’s not the issue. We just can’t get anyone to sell us their place. The real estate Gods must HATE us.

They say things happen for a reason, but they never said what the reason is. I gotta tell you, after this, I’m not sure what to think.

On our way home we stopped to grab some dinner from Boston Market and right after putting together our food, they ran out of white meat. If someone up there thinks that even comes close to making up for this house thing, they’ve got another thing coming.

P.S. The agent for the sellers of the last home we walked away from called our agent to see if we were still interested if they came down another $1000 in price. Uh, no thank you. Our agent told them we’re through with them. That’s what they get for being greedy. I hope their place sells for less than what we were willing to pay.

So after waiting half the day today, the sellers came back asking us to raise our price another $3000 after we already offered them more earnest money and to push back the closing date. In essence, they came down $1000 dollars which is insulting. They totally expected us to bend over backwards to accommodate them without giving us any reason to by not compromising on ANYTHING. They came down a total of $3,900 during our negotiations. And their agent told our agent that they’re just not that motivated to sell. Um, so take the damn house off the market. We withdrew our offer. After hearing that, there was no way I was taking my chances with those people. If they aren’t motivated to show some good faith, I will be damned if I’m going to deal with them. I could foresee lots of problems dealing with those PITAs.

So we’re back to square one AGAIN. Third time’s a charm, right? Right? I’m about ready to give up. And I’ll tell you something, I am starting to be very distrusting of Polish people. I can say that, you know, because I am Polish! You know that stereotype about Polish people being cheap? It’s so damn true! Both houses were owned by a Polish family and BOTH times they were completely cheap and greedy. Makes me embarrassed to be Polish, dammit.

I didn’t go into work today. I gave myself a huge headache by getting upset about losing the townhome. I’m trying to be positive about this by thinking that it just wasn’t meant to be and we’ll find something even better, but that doesn’t change the fact that I’m pissed off about what happened.

The listing agent was the one who wanted to work out the deal late Tuesday evening and we didn’t want to waste any time and agreed. Once we had their verbal agreement, we arranged to have me initial the new paperwork and then get the seller’s signatures. Apparently we didn’t get them quick enough. What irks me the most is how the listing agent avoided our agent’s calls and made us wait until late last night to tell us they accepted another offer. Not only that, but she didn’t even give us the opportunity to match or exceed the other offer. To me that is just unethical. If I was the seller, I wouldn’t do that. Oh that’s so easy to say, you’re probably thinking, but I wouldn’t. If I’ve agreed to something, I stick to my word. If the seller really didn’t want to sell us the place for the price they eventually agreed to, they could have said no. Hell, they could have told us they’d sleep on it. It would have sucked, but at least we wouldn’t have thought the place was ours.

I’d be really interested to see how much it ended up getting sold for. I know our agent will tell us once everything is said and done. I will be so angry if it’s a couple thousand dollars because I think we would have upped our price just to ensure we had the place. It was that nice. Hardwood floors, lots of space, great layout. Ugh. I was going to post pictures but there’s no point in doing so now. I feel like such a gullible person too. This has definitely changed my whole attitude about the process. And our agent apparently gave the other agent an earful as well. I don’t know who she is, but I told our agent that we refuse to even look at a place that she’s selling in the future.

As for the sellers, I’m angry with them too. I understand they only lived in the place for two years and had to do what they could to get as much money as possible, but the way they went about it was not nice. They should have either started off with a higher asking price, or like I said, not agreed to ours. And what gets me is that the final agreed upon price was right in the middle of what the same exact layouts were sold for in the same subdivision. So it’s not like we were asking for a steal. Some appliances were new and others were quite old.

Oh well, no sense in talking about it anymore. I will be angry about this until we do get a place. But I won’t talk about it here until it really is a done deal. I feel like I jinxed things by mentioning it.