28 Days, And Counting...

On Monday or Tuesday I had a post all ready to go about the past weekend, but then we got some ummm, not so good news. The aforementioned "condo of happiness" just got really sad. In order to get a home loan, the lenders send out an appraiser. We were prepared for the fact that the appraiser might not give the condo the full value that we had agreed to pay, but not quite prepared enough. It appraised at $64,000 less than the selling price! (Wasn't that some sort of game show about a pyramid?) So unless we want to get a second mortgage on the Tahoe house and pretty much gamble with that much money that the market will grow to support this exorbitant price, we are going to have to bail on this deal. As of today we have 4 weeks of housing left. As of today we have to start paying $400 a month for the government to keep our stuff in storage. I am angry at the dude selling the condo, I feel like he knew that this price was exorbitant, and was taking advantage of us nice, trusting, outta-towners. He pushed us to sign a contract with no contingency clauses about the appraisal, saying if we didn't do it his way we couldn't do it at all. So it looks like we are going to line his pockets with our hard earned deposit. Bleah, ugh, icky icky ptang ni!