A Bit of Good News

Our offer was accepted!!!! So we move on to the next step. I am excited.

Let me back up a little bit...we put an offer on a house about a week and a half ago. Part of that contract included that the seller would repair the foundation if there were problems. We believed that there we problems and wanted to have it checked out. The seller at first countered our offer (it was low but doesn't hurt to try right??), we countered back and then we started investigating companies to inspect the foundation. We requested and received permission from the seller to have the foundation inspected before a final offer was accepted. After many phone calls to about 6 different foundation companies I was frustrated because the foundation companies wouldn't speak with me because I was not the owner. We finally contacted the seller and asked him to call the foundation companies and have an inspection.

So the signing of the contract was put on hold as the seller investigated the foundation issues. Come to find out that there are not really any issues that need to be addressed. M. talked to the foundation company that did the inspection directly to find out what they thought.

During this time, the seller had placed the house up for lease. I was so disappointed in this as I was afraid that they would not even consider our final counter offer. M. called the seller agent today and it turns out that they agreed to the offer. So tomorrow we go and initial all the paperwork and pay the fee. Then Saturday we will have a general inspector come and inspect the house from top to bottom. I am still not positive that everything is good and it will cost us at least $450 to find out if there are any surprises in the house. M. called an inspector that is also a structual engineer who can give us a detailed report. Hopefully on Saturday we will know more and I pray that all will go well.

I can already see us living in this house and I am excited that we are further in the process than we ever have been before.

On a side note, I am also excited about going back to work. This is a change in outlooks from last week. Please pray for us for God's will in the house process and that we stay healthy as we head back to work and the busiest time of year for us.