I got a call from my realtor today. I’m not sure if I’ve ever said it on this blog, but I know I’ve said even recently in real life, that I hope the 2nd house’s 50%-down offer falls thru and they come crawling back to us but WE won’t be available anymore, and that’d serve them right for their underhanded dealings and lies.

So my realtor said that he got a call from another realtor from the same office of the one he’d dealt with in House #2, and this realtor said that the guy who’d offered 50% down hasn’t given them the documentation that he has the cash to back up his offer, and wanted to know if we were still interested in House #2. Are you freaking kidding me?! After they LIED to us about how if we go in at the price we offered, we’d be immediately accepted and then go into Escrow, and THEN when we did exactly as they said, we were jerked around for a week until our offer for House #1 expired altho House #2’s agent kept saying, “Tomorrow, you’ll get an answer tomorrow,” and tomorrow didn’t come for a week, and THEN they gave the house to someone else who didn’t even make an offer until ours sat and got stale that entire time?! F them! I was happy to learn our agent already told them off and asked how could his clients (us) trust them, after the experience we’d had with them? They have no credibility with us now. That agent said, “I understand, but you can trust me.” WHATEVER. They didn’t say they terminated the offer with the guy who offered 50% down. They just said he wasn’t showing documentation and that they were frustrated with him. I can totally see that they’d make us pull out of Escrow with House #1, lose our deposit there, then tell the 50% down guy that they have another buyer lined up to pressure him, and then he’d say, “Oh, sorry, here’s my 50% right here!” and they’d give the house to him AGAIN and screw us AGAIN. Forget that! It was not going to happen. I believe a touch of fate exists in househunting, and EVERYTHING points to House #1 as The House and House #2 as The Distractor. And we already learned that lesson. I doubt House #1 would take us back again if we left them hanging a second time, and I wouldn’t blame them. They’ve been nothing but patient and forthright with us, which is the exact opposite of the people involved in House #2.

Mr. W is mad about the whole thing cuz he still prefers House #2, but my message to House #2 is merely, “PPPPTTTTTTHHHHHHHH!!!” I hope they end up stuck on the market for a long time, and finally sell to someone who gives them like 5% down. HA!

On another good note, I found a freaking INCREDIBLE rental management company that I’m gonna retain to lease out my place. They’re affordable, they do all the work, have great references and experience, and even go above and beyond MY expectations and hopes in their services. They can find renters for my place way more quickly than I can. I have an appointment with them to come see my place tomorrow evening. OH, and they even have an in-house team who’ll do home repairs and renovations more inexpensively than my hiring an outside contractor to fix my ceiling (from the leaks earlier in the year) and get rid of my bathroom wallpaper. Just like that, all my rental headaches solved!