Happy Hunting...

So, our offer on the house expired Friday night at 6pm.  We hadn't heard anything from our Realtor since the Sunday we signed our purchase agreement four weeks prior.  So, naturally, we assumed the deal was dead and we started to make other plans - did a 180 in our thinking/planning.

We sent an email to our Realtor on Saturday morning asking him to return our earnest funds to us ASAP and to let him know we were no longer interested in looking for a home in the area.  

We had decided when we made the offer that if it didn't go through in the time allotted by the contract that it wasn't supposed to happen (and that we weren't supposed to "settle" in IN) and that we would start looking to relocate sooner rather than later.

So, we started calling around to try to find a new apartment, using the classifieds in the local paper.  We found a couple of places to look at and started our "hunt".

We looked at a place on Saturday afternoon. It only had one parking spot, and it was literally inches off the road.  Since we have three vehicles (two personal and one work), that was a no-go.

We made an appointment to look at another place on Monday afternoon, since J had the day off (his "Thanksgiving" holiday).

We still hadn't heard anything from him when we got up Sunday morning to head to church.  At church, people were waiting to hear if we'd heard anything on the house.  We told them what we had heard - NOTHING.

When we got home from church, we had an email from our Realtor.  He was surprised to hear from us, especially saying that we were "done".  He stated that he had talked with the seller's agent last week (would have been nice if he had told us this at the time!!) and that the seller and bank had both approved the offer and were just waiting on the bank's underwriters to approve it (since it would be a loss on the loan they had approved).

So, we had a decision to make.  Did we still want the house?

After much prayer and consideration (including driving out to look at it again), we decided that we had completely changed our focus, and the house no longer fit into our foreseeable future.

Monday, we spent a chunk of the day driving around town looking at apartments and trying to decide if we wanted to "downsize" in order to save up a sizeable downpayment for a house in our "near" (probably a year or so from now - wherever/whenever we are able to relocate) future.  We were able to narrow down our options to one apartment that we liked, had more than enough room for us, and would be a significant savings.

So, hopefully by the end of this week (or early next week), we'll have decided what we want to do in the short-term - stay put or move to this other apt.

And that's the story of our weekend... the best part of which is that I have no voice (or at best, a very limited voice), so communicating was fun!

Q4U: What have you been hunting for lately?