The Deal from H*LL

WOW! We've had a rough week. We've officially moved out of our old house, moved our belongings into the new house, closed on the old house, closed on the new house, and temporarily moved in to my in-laws house. But none of that was the hard part. The hard part was dealing with the seller of our new home. Since we put an offer on the home in January the seller has missed every deadline and basically ignored every contract we've signed. It has seemed like they did not actually want to sell the house. We asked ourselves several times, "should we just walk away?" but decided to move forward. On Friday, we were to have possession of the new home and a list of items were to be fixed. When we arrived at the home the seller still had their belongings in the home and the majority of the items were not fixed. At this point our choices were 1) walk away 2) sue them or 3) figure out a way to get it done. Obviously we were irate, but rationally choices 1 and 2 are not good choices since by the way we have to be out of our house!!! so we moved forward with plan 3. In order to get that done Scott and his friends moved the sellers belongings out of the house and into a moving van secured by the Realtor. Seriously ridiculous. At the closing both our Realtor and the seller's Realtor admitted that this was in their top two worst transactions ever. So glad we could be included in this fiasco! So, now we officially own the home and are looking forward to moving in later this month after we've had some work done. We're still experiencing a few bumps in the road, but at least we are in control now. I hope we can look back on this in a year and have it all be a distant memory.