If It Sounds Too Good To Be True...

Well, OK. This is the world's biggest retraction post. I guess I jumped the gun on my post yesterday. I was so excited, but I should have waited another day. We went down today to sign a little bit more paperwork and the building agent pulled a ginormous juky. She somehow swapped houses on us. The whole deal that we worked out was for the wrong house. I don't know how she did that! I am really very angry, but I guess I can't do anything about it. We faxed her over an offer with a specific address on it, but somehow she got it in her mind that it was for a completely different home. When she went to the builder to work our deal she gave him all the information for this other house. It's not a house we really want. It's actually a few hundred sq. ft. bigger, but the floor plan is funky. Plus, it doesn't have all the fabulous upgrades like the tile, granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, 3rd car garage. To me it feels like a classic bait and switch. She gets us in with the home of our dreams, and then she pulls a switcheroo and tries to sell us on something we don't even want. Our realtor believes it to be an honest mistake. Even if that's the case, it's a pretty big mistake to make. The thing that makes me the maddest is that we went down there on Thursday and gave her a deposit. She probably could have done a better job communicating with us then! I was pretty much livid when we left. I didn't want to blow up at her so all I said was, "This makes me really frustrated. When we faxed over our offer it had the address of the house we wanted. I don't see how a mistake like this could be made." Her response only made me feel worse, "Well... I wasn't working the day the offer came through." Say WHAT?!?! I guess if you're looking for an excuse, anything will do.
What we're looking at now is that she's going to go back to the builder and try to correct her mistake and work out a deal on the right house. I'm not holding my breath though. They weren't really willing to budge one penny lower than what they were offering us on the WRONG house. I can't imagine they'd make the same deal for the right house that is a little bit better. Woe is me. I'm going to take a day to mourn and then I'll try my best to get over it. :(