House Update Part 2

If you haven't heard about our recent house dilemma, you can read it here . So the update is this. We received a call on Tuesday, the 5th, from our agent, Natalie. She informed us that the listing agent claimed the asset manager said the bank wanted $2,000 more than what we had said our highest offer would be. This seemed very silly to us that they would nickel and dime us on a foreclosure that they had jerked us along on for several weeks. We talked about, sought advice about it, talked some more, etc. and decided that we would go ahead with it.

Friday, the 8th, we get a call from the listing agent stating that she really "thought" the asset manager would have taken our last offer, but now they want an additional $3,000. Our agent said, no thanks. The end.

I don't know which is worse. Sitting and waiting on an answer or getting jerked along from incompetent people. I don't know if the problem is with the asset manager or the listing agent, but someone (or probably both of them) doesn't know what they are doing. It is so extremely frustrating. G and I were both so bummed after all of this. I think we both had our hearts set on this house. It makes it even worse to have the ups and downs from one minute to the next.

We could just pay the extra $3,000 and maybe get the house, but I just can't do it. Part of it is because of the burn I feel from the bank. Why would I want to give them one cent more after all of this. The main reason is because we have spent so much time in prayer on this decision. It is very hard to distinguish between God's plan for us and fitting God into our plan. The last thing we want to do is get involved in something that is not in God's plan for us.

At this point, the only way we would take the house is if the bank came back to us and took our original offer.