Snag

Well, we hit our first snag in this home buying/selling process. Our buyers' lender required an appraisal on our house (apparently this is required for all loans now...it didn't use to be according to Scott). Anyways, in our minds the house was worth more than what we'd accepted for an offer. We know how much we've put in to it and what not so we thought we were already losing money. Turns out, the appraisal actually came in $4k lower than the offer we'd accepted. Which COMPLETELY sucks!

We'd tried negotiating with our buyers to see if they could possibly come up with any more or something. They offered $2k more than the appraised cost. Which, wouldn't have been a big deal if the woman wasn't such a bitch about it. I thought, since we were getting less than we'd wanted/needed that we'd accept that offer but keep the swing set, which had been included in the agreement. The woman said "well, that swing set was part of the agreement..." (she was much more rude about it though) so Scott replied "Yea, so was the offer we accepted!"

Anyways, after going back and forth we decided that it really wasn't worth it anymore and we just wanted to get everything over with so we accepted and are leaving the stupid swing set. However, we will NOT be leaving the other stuff they wanted unless they pay us cash for it. This included a cabinet, which I looked up and its $180 and our super cool spice rack that I think was about $40-50.

The spice rack was mentioned in a couple texts throughout this entire thing and the woman stated "it's attached so it is supposed to stay..." its just as attached as all my wedding photos...you want those too?! This woman....I tell ya. If we didn't want to be done with this so badly she wouldn't get sh*t!

Now we just have to wait for the appraisal on the house we're buying to be completed and come back and hopefully there wont be an issue there. That will probably be ordered next week some time so that it will still be valid on the closing date. The closing date is April 20th BTW. I can't wait. I need to get Scott moving on packing up the junk in the garage....he thinks he has sooooo much time but I'm guessing he wont have it anywhere close to done before its time to move.

Men....