House Hunting Blues

Well, Steve, our realtor just called us and apparently there are 2 other offers on the home we want. Not only that but they are on a 24hour contingency so the owner has until Saturday to accept and their realtor is fairly certain they will be accepting one of them. This means if we want it we have to put in a bid tomorrow at the latest and have $1000 good faith money. This is a part apparently I didn't understand. I thought that the good faith money was given to them at a later date. How it goes is Kevin goes in and signs papers and gives Steve a check for $1000 that Steve will fax over with the offer papers. If they accept the offer they will cash that $$ which will go towards the amount of the total loan. We'll still have to come up with about $500 when it closes to reimburse them for the taxes they've already paid.

I know Kevin's gonna yell at me about the trip to New Orleans and tell me that if we weren't going we'd be able to get this house. Now we're gonna lose it. All I wanna do is cry. I'm so upset.