I'm not having fun anymore....

I don't even know where to begin....
I really hate complaining... especially in public form.. it's not my style... but seriously... Since the second week in February, we have been looking daily at houses.  I look online, we look in person.  We drive by houses to see if the area is decent...  we look more online... our realtor looks and drives by and we all go look.
I stated in the last post about all the houses we've seen.
Well, since then here is the update...
Since the last post, when we went to all of the open houses, we put an offer in on one in Attleboro.  They did not like our offer and countered, but we couldn't meet their counter.

Then we went out the next weekend with our realtor and saw six houses.  One was in East Bridgewater - that was very small and the woman must have smoked her whole life in that house.  Smoke is a total deal breaker for us.  Then we went to Easton and that house was basically an apartment.
After that, we were off to Bridgewater and that house needed a TON of work and was again, a smoker's house.
From there, we traveled to Taunton.  The first in Taunton was a split level which was nice, but there was NO room for a table in the kitchen and no dining room.  It too seemed like an apartment.
The next was a condo that was gorgeous inside - but not for a family.  It was on the taunton river, but set in someone else's backyard... the set up was so frustrating - you couldn't have people over or take your kids outside at all.
Then we went to one house that we fell in love with.  We weren't expecting it at all, in fact, we don't even know how it got on our list to see... because it was well over 30k what we wanted to spend... but we loved it!!
The woman living there is selling because her job is relocating her to Guam.  That's right.. Guam.  She needed to leave in the next two weeks.  This is good, the house was on the market for 2 months and she needs immediacy - we could knock 30k off!!  Or... not.

We offered that day.  We offered the 30K less and they didn't even counter - they just said, "we can't work with this number."  So after some lengthy number crunching and conversations with our mortgage broker, we upped our offer by 20K... that's right we loved this house enough to eat mac-n-cheese for a few months...

So all day yesterday we were on pins and needles having just offered and praying she accepted.

I finally heard from our realtor around 4pm saying that the woman changed her mind, isn't moving to Guam and wont sell for less than the asking price.

Talk about a punch in the stomach...

And to make matters worse, my boss came in today and reminded me that they have posted my job - so I'll need to be out by May.

Awesome...

Our agent is awesome, in fact, she didn't let us sulk last night.  Instead, she had us go to two houses.  Neither one was good at all, but at least we were back out looking. 

I also remembered that about a month ago, I went with our agent (without Ryan) to see a house in Weymouth that I hadn't listed in the previous post.  There had to have been seventeen cats in that house!! And it was TINY!!!
the floors were slanted.  And there was no backyard - that too is a deal breaker.

So if you're counting that's 44 houses that we've physically been in, three offers, and NO P&S's signed... and two very frustrated future home buyers.

Thank you for the prayers and support... Please keep praying... we need to rely on God for this and trust that he has a plan for us... it's so much easier said than done!