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The day it all came down

Wow. Yesterday was a busy busy day in my little world.

Let us start with the good news. I found out that my sister is both engaged and having a baby. Now this one came out of left field. I knew she was dating someone, but I didn't think for that long, apparently it was much more serious than I realized. I'm both in a state of shock and awe. Most of my family figured I'd be the first kid to take the plunge as it were, but looks like I proved all of them wrong. Looks like I'll take of on the role of Uncle Tommy here in December.

Now for the not so good news. I put in an offer on a house yesterday, which at first sounds like a good thing. I put in the offer at 4k less than the asking price as well as asking them to pay closing and a 3% down payment. They came back last night with an offer of 4k over the asking price and only 5k in closing and down payment. Their counteroffer has now put it over what I can borrow. So it is a little disheartening, them coming back so quickly and saying no.

This idea of waiting a year has been lurking in the back of my head for quite some time now but I think it will be the best thing for me to do. Save as much as I can for the next year and then start looking again. I am thinking that maybe I jumped into this too quickly. I'm still mulling it over, but I think that I may cancel the house hunt for now...

Labels: house search

posted by Tom Becker at 4/30/2008