Here's a quick update on the house situation. My realtor Craig tried to go around this Lorraine lady (mistake gal). Come to find out, if you want a deal to be made, Lorraine's the gal you need to talk to. We decided to go back up there last night and have a little chat. When we walked through the door, Lorraine started out very defensively saying that she knew we were trying to go over her head and how it wasn't her fault and blah blah blah. I swallowed my pride and rehearsed verbatim a speech that Craig had prepared for me. I told Lorraine that as far as I was concerned it didn't matter who made the mistake, one had been made, but we were still interested in making something work with her, no hard feelings, we'd like to move on. After I said this she started crying and told us that she had had the most terrible weekend and she just felt sick about what happened. The she came over and hugged me. If any of you know me... I'm not really a hugger, but we hugged it out and now everything's fine. (I think. Ryan remained very silent during this portion of the meeting)
We asked Lorraine if there was anything with a similar floor plan that she could show us that we could get down to the price we had arranged before on the WRONG house. She showed us a different home that was very similar, but it only had 4 bedrooms upstairs instead of the 5. It still had all of the fancy upgrades. It was in a different phase and wouldn't have access to all the amenities (or an HOA which I was actually not stoked about to begin with) She told us that we could put an offer in on it, but she was expecting another one this morning and she knew the builder would accept the highest offer. She kind of kept reiterating to us that she's offering a price she wouldn't offer to anyone else because she's trying to work with us after what happened. We went ahead and put an offer in just for the heck of it. Who knows, right? There was also another house with the same floor plan (the 4 bedroom house) that wasn't quite done being built that we may try to keep as our back-up plan.
The sad truth is that we're not going to get quite as big of a steal of a deal as we originally thought, but if we're going to keep looking in that neighborhood for at least a little while to see if we can find a good fit for us. We may have to give up the 3-car garage that I was uber stoked about, but I'm feeling good that something will work out. I know that after this whole rollercoaster of emotion is finally over, we will end up happy. I keep telling myself that maybe the ward in that other phase would have been a terrible fit for me and this whole thing was meant to be. It could happen, right?
3 comments:
The suspense is killing me! I'm glad you kissed and made up with the mistake lady...she should feel pretty dumb!
I'm excited to hear how it all turns out! I think one of the reasons Rob & I won't be moving for a while is because of all the hassle we remember from the first time! It's such a pain!
Good luck!
Thanks for the update. We're praying for you to get what you need. I love that you are so easy to change your attitude and move on--maybe even to better things.
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