One of the worst weeks ever!

Yup, that pretty much describes our last week. So anyway, we put the offer in... that's where I left off. They had until the next day at noon to get back to us so we anxiously waited for the phone to ring that morning and got excited when it did around 10:30. It was our Realtor with news, but not quite what we were expecting... there was another offer on the house. OMGosh! Does that happen in small towns? Not usually so we're not sure what happened but non the less. We upped our offer a bit and had to fax some more papers back and forth. Just before noon the phone rang again and this time, she was telling us the offer was accepted. No counter or anything, simply accepted. Weird...so anway.. Since we wanted to do some home renos on this lower cost house the stress hit a new level. Because we wanted to take the mortgage out for more than the cost of the house to do the renos we had to get quotes for what it was going to cost. That meant getting in the flooring people, the cabinet people, the plumber, the electrician, and the carpenter. I know most of you are saying, "Why not do the work yourselves?" Frankly that is not an option. We have 120 days from the possetion date to get all the work completed so the mortgage people will give us the money. It's long and complicated and totally stress us out!!!! So we got all those nice and understanding people in there and told them what we wanted. They gave us all quotes and we forwared it on to our mortgage guy. The finacing for the cost of the house is pretty much done, we just now have to get confirmation on the extra stuff. Oh ya and since all the renos have to be paid by us first we had to go talk to the bank to! OMGosh it's been crazy.

So we're home now and feeling much better. There is still alot to do but at least we're not living at the hotel and trying to do things over the cell phone all the time. I was able to get some pics of the house, so when I upoad them I'll post them to show you all. :)