More house craziness

Considering my existing house is under contract, things have sure been crazy.  People seem to be ignoring the "option pending" and coming to see it in droves.  For that, I do credit H's hard work, plus the insane amount of time spent by our friends Darin and Kelly and Laura helping us stage the house.

Anyway, because we have a better offer in writing as a backup, we were hoping to persuade our original buyers that the house wasn't as great as they thought.  We told them we will not be fixing or replacing anything based on inspections and encouraged them to come back to see for themselves.  H had the house not look as good as before.  Apparently, though, they weren't convinced.  Meanwhile, the backup buyers came yet again yesterday to see the house and reiterate how much they want it.  And, no fewer than three other buyers came yesterday, including a last-minute call at 7:00 for a second showing by another serious buyer as I was settling in with the kids to watch a movie.  A change of plans and a quick trip to Baskin Robbins followed.  Good thing I went swimming yesterday morning.  Crazy.

H is actually going to call the prime buyers today and give them a sob story about how she is divorcing and needs the extra money and try to convince them to let her close with the other buyers.  She wanted to break the contract, but I told her (1) our integrity is not for sale, and (2) I don't want to get sued. It's gotten too stressful for me.  Money is nice, but I also just want to close this chapter of life, and I need to close on this house in time in order to close on my new place.

Wendy, it makes me want to barf. ;-)

Happy Barfday and new offer

After I wrote last night, L came down complaining of a terrible headache.  I got her some peas and tried to calm her while I finished cleaning up the house.  She fell asleep in my bed, but then woke up throwing up while I was reading my scriptures.  Bummer.  It turns out that, while she hadn't eaten much pizza, she must have consumed a very large quantity of blueberries earlier, because I had a mass of purple nastiness on my bedsheets.    Parenting is not for the faint of heart.

In theoretically better news, we got a (verbal) offer on the house today that is 20k better than the offer we just accepted.  Unfortunately, we're locked in unless the other people back out, but we can tell them we won't make any repairs, etc. and generally hold them to the exact letter of the contract.  We'll see if the other couple comes through in writing.  At least there is a very high interest level in the property, thanks to some dear friends who spent quite a bit of time helping us stage it.